NEW Spring Flower Pendants

Spring is here! Well it was here, but now it's freezing again:( Geesh. I'm getting over it by hunkering down in the studio and dreaming up spring with some new designs.

I've been working with Millefori a lot lately, they are tiny glass flowers made to be fused into sheet glass or beads. This is what they look like before I fire them into pendants:

After cutting, layering, firing and firing again, they look like this:

I do hope that spring appears outside soon. xxoo Penny

A little bit of sunshine on a rainy day

It's rainy here - cold, dark rainy. The kind of day that makes me want to curl up and not do a whole lot. But alas, it's not possible in our house full of busy kids and the typical tooing and frooing of weekend family life.

Walking through my new studio, which is almost done (yay!) I spotted these flowers that I bought the other day while having brunch with my sweet cousin, mother and grandmother, and they perked me right up.

Sometimes, it's that simple, a few flowers can brighten up my day.

Happy Weekednd!

xxooPenny

Roses

Today I decided to play a little bit with my camera. I liked the light in my office this morning and chose to snap a few pics of the beautiful roses my husband had delivered. Husband travels frequently - very frequently, so it was a nice little surprise to be reminded of how nuch I like the guy when these showed up.

I buy flowers for myself every week, never roses. I usually go for several different varieties of flowers and create a mix, but these are gorgeous and I couldn't help but squeal a tiny bit when I opened them.

Here are just a few of the pics I shot:

xxoo Penny