Helen on August 31st, 2009

I wonder if everyone feels just a bit disappointed every year at the end of the garden season. I know I do. So many things that I had planned to do never actually happened. No time. Not enough energy either.
Last night as I watered I noticed the hostas are starting to fade. [...]

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With this Pique Assiette mosaic shrine, the fruity patterns on the dishes created the main theme. As sometimes happens there was one dish that started the ball rolling. In this case it was the little plate with cherries.
Without a clear idea in mind, I started to set aside dishes I found with fruit [...]

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Helen on August 11th, 2009

Now that the show is behind us and done, we’ve had a few moments to assess it all. And I must admit that we were quite pleased with our display which as I wrote in my last post required a bit of thought. We weren’t allowed to put screws in the bench anywhere [...]

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Helen on August 11th, 2009

One of the best things about doing a show where the public is coming to see your work, is that you really get a chance to find out what they think and also to find out about some misconceptions they may have. Which brings me to talking about the feedback we got about our [...]

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Helen on August 11th, 2009

This last weekend at the Glendale Arts and Music Show was the debut of my latest sculpture.  I’ve worked on this piece for months on and off. It’s not at all like what I had originally planned. Originally it was supposed to be quite abstract and modern. But it seems to have [...]

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This coming weekend, August 8th and 9th, we‘ll be participating in the Arts and Music at the Glendale Gardens. This will be our second time in this show and it’s quite a setting. For one thing there are all the various gardens like the Winter Garden, Mediterranean Garden, Ornamental Grasses Garden and [...]

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