Helen at Summerhouse on October 25th, 2010

My mosaic classes are probably a bit unusual. For one, they are very small. I only have only one or two students at a time, three in a pinch. I teach in my own studio and it’s not very big. I may have 4 to 6 students over a whole summer, [...]

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Helen at Summerhouse on September 29th, 2010

The thing with shopping at garage sales is that A. you never know what you will find and B. you never know where what you find will lead you.
I like to call it creative shopping.
This summer I snapped up a lovely pillow with a Japanese theme of a pagoda and a scooter. A few [...]

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Helen at Summerhouse on July 9th, 2010

the inspiration
I’d had this fantastic plate with the bridges of London all around the rim for ages. I’d had a few ideas for it but nothing that really inspired me into action. Nevertheless, I’d broken up the pieces and kept them together with masking tape for years. They were waiting for me, [...]

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Helen at Summerhouse on May 30th, 2010

Last weekend we went to visit our good friend Hart, not just for the great company but also to stroll his garden just as it was alight with the blooms of over 40 Rhododendrons. Now, to me, not too many flowers are as exotic as Rhodos. And these blooms were hot! Like [...]

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A month ago, picking through all my bits of ocean tumbled pottery, I’d started a new pique assiette mosaic mirror. You would think that picking bits from the exact same basin of shards, I would come up with almost the exact same mirror frame that I’d created back in January. That was when I’d [...]

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Helen at Summerhouse on April 12th, 2010

Earth Day is on April 22, 2010!  I had been reminded by news of a contest on a blog that I happened to find one day cruising the internet. Garden bloggers were invited to write and submit a blog dedicated to what they did for Earth Day.  You really must check out  Earth Day on [...]

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Helen at Summerhouse on April 5th, 2010

I found this quote the other day in my internet wanderings and immediately copied it and attached it to my studio door. A little reminder to find some time, no let me rephrase that, make some time to let inspiration find me working. My time is so precious, there is just not enough [...]

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Helen at Summerhouse on March 24th, 2010

I like the idea of synchronicity, which in the dictionary is defined “as the coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related, conceived in Jungian theory as an explanatory principle on the same order as causality.”  My foray into stained glass was definitely a “coincidence of events”.
I also like the idea of serendipity which [...]

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Helen at Summerhouse on March 4th, 2010

Yesterday I celebrated another year on this beautiful world with just a very few of my most special people. Yesterday was a perfect spring day and somehow my presents confirmed it.  Well, at least here it’s Spring already, and looking around, I’m pretty sure about this.
First a gift of Orchids called Cymbidium, pale mauve [...]

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Helen at Summerhouse on February 26th, 2010

Sometimes, here on the wet coast, we get what we call “liquid sunshine” which is when it rains while the sun is shining. I’ve been meaning to take some more spring flower photos for the blog and this was a perfect time, just after the shower. The little red bird garden ornament is [...]

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