one half of the duo!

This is one half of the duo that keeps my occupied outside of my glass life. This was taken today-before she had a major melt down-someting about how I wouldn't let her out past curfew and why won't I let her borrow the car? Look how happy she is. She is our IVF miracle-adored by her father, her brother and me. Not to mention the grandparents, aunts and uncles! And all of my IVF buddies!

She turned 15 months old yesterday! What a doll!

Dresser disaster!!!!!!

OK-so on top of my already hectic week (don't ask), my cat inadvertently almost committed kitty suicide. For those of you who don't know, my cat Tana is a black and white Tom cat that weights 21.5 lbs. He is HUGE. So, Mr. Wide Load decides that he doesn't like his normal day, which consists of sleeping and sleeping-and maybe some eating(ok- lot's of eating, but I digress). My son left the second to top drawer of his dresser open yesterday.

Tana thought that it would make a lovely place to hang out. The dresser disagreed with him. When Tana jumped up, his massive weight landing on the edge of the dresser drawer tipped the whole thing.ALl the drawers out and the dresser face down like a drunken sailor. I am lucky I didn't have a smushed cat! That would have been terribly tragic. Tana needs to go on a diet. Tried 'em. They don't work for him. He is going to be "big boned".

Now-in terms of glass, I made this fabulous bowl titled "in the city". It is a 12" by 12" and 3" deep. It has great weight to it and is GORGEOUS in person! I hope you get a good sense of it from the photo!

More great glass to come!
Less almost dead cats!

Laura

The "LOVE" is back!

OK-glass addicts-and I know who you are-well most of you, at any rate.

My limited edition love series from last year is back. I know I have had lots of requests and these are in process, as we speak! Last year's series "Love 2006" was an ediiton of 20. Because of popular demand I am doing a series of 35, titled "Love 2007". All will be dated and signed. I am anticipating a late august release date. I have 7 completed so far, but these things take a long time! Detail intensive and ohhh there's a lot of life thrown in there, too. Hopefully the picture I posted shows up!

Speaking of life-Our little miss Keelin decided that it's ok to sleep. We hold our breath every night but she has managed about 5 good nights of sleep in a row. GO to bed at 9-wake up at 5:30. I know it sounds harsh-but it is such an improvement. THings continue to progress on the medical front for her. Will write when I have news.

Jared is enjoying 4th grade. He says it's lots of work. Ahhhh-the innocence of youth

And on that note, I am a slave to glass this weekend. Although my good friend Debbie is coming ot watch Keelin this afternoon so I can go see Hairspray with my husband! YES DEBBIE!

The Plane is DONE!!!!!!!!!!

Yahoo-got my Dad's plane finished. What a learning experience. If you look at the Flickr mini to the right, it should pop up in there! I will let you know how much it was loved and adored!

(as soon as I find out myself)

Remind me to tell you of the birthday party gone bad----my poor boy.

Our daughter still thiks sleep is anathema!HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone with good sleep suggestions feel free to comment.......no bourbon, though. We like to keep her off the sauce!

Will write more later!

Laura(queen of glass)

I just published a picture of a lime bowl set. The bottom platter is 9" by 9" and the little top platter is 4.5" by 4.5". Check it out on my website at http://talisman.etsy.com. Today is the day that I assemble my Dad's plane and fire it up! Yeah baby!

Have I mentioned that my daughter doesn't sleep and my son-the birthday boy-has a fever now. He is doing "cosmic bowling" this year for his party. Fevers on the day of your party stink!

Note to children: Quit passing around your germs!
Note to Parents: This too shall pass, you can sleep when you're 60

Have a great day, y'all!

New Lime Goodness

Birthdays and Blood

Hello from the edge of insanity! Really crazy? Nope-just crazy busy!

Today is my son's 9th b-day! Happy B-day Jared! That would account for the "birthday".

My little miss Keelin(14 months old) is having some testing done that involves bloodwork. That's fine excpet they took THIRTEEN vials. How do you get THIRTEEN vials from a baby? Lots of screaming and tears, though I will say that once they found the vein-she is a hard stick- and got the needle in, she was a champ. She was interested in how the shook the vials to mix it with the preservative. Remind me to avoid blood draws for her in the future-

GLASS-I am working on a new line, please tell me what you think. Glass butterfly pendants. I have some done in several colors and the one I am posting a pic of is already sold. I think they are pretty groovy! These are cut out by hand on my ring saw and then fired with frits and rods to get the look. I can do almost any color you need!

Thanks for stopping by-check the link down at the bottom to my etsy store!

Hello from the land of better sleep!! SOme of you must have been sending some sleep vibes to our little girl because she is sleeping marginally better.........

So, I won't throw myself in front of train and I won't steal Ambien from a pharmacy-I almost feel like a real human again!

Work on my Dad's plane is going at a steady clip-I did the majority of the cutting and grinding on the body of the plane today. That was good. I tried to tell him he wants a lot of detail work. He told me that artists usually have tortured souls and the more difficult a project is, the better for their pained humanity(or something along those lines.......) Thanks, Dad!

After this, I have to get back to some special orders and the limited edition Love series (pictures forthcoming), as well as some of this juciness.... the face down firings! There's a picture of some cypress trees I did in a class. Roger Thomas is my hero!

OK you fabulous people-gotta run!

WHHHHHHY? Oh the humanity!

My lovely little girl has been on a bender lately. Swilling milk with great disregard for her health? Refusing to have a diaper changed when the surgeon general insists that it's better for her health if she does?

I WISH!

No.........Sleep........til Brooklyn!

I don't know what it is with missy, but let me tell you sleep is not in her vocabulary lately (nor any other word for that matter!).Ugh.

This does not bode well for glass! How can I be uber creative when I am barely functioning? How?

Speaking of uber creative-I am working on a project for a dear man-My Dad. He has commissioned a fused glass replica of a friend's airplane! It's a 15" by 15" project and it's a time eater, for sure! But ohh it will be so gorgeous! Did the test fire on the colors to make sure they fire correctly and don't shift. They don't! They are perfect!

So-to all of you in internet land.......say a collective prayer for sleep!

TIA and I mean it!

Welcome to my Blog

Holy Cow, Batman! I have a blog! It's titled " How Glass Saved My Life" for a reason. No, I wasn't walking down a street when a big piece of dichroic jumped in front of a stolen SUV barreling down the side walk to save me. That wasn't it-

I found glass during a time in my life where I needed a focus other than infertility and the extreme lengths we were going through to try and get pregnant. Glass became an outlet for the creative side of me that was dormant through the years of shots, surgeries and five failed In Vitro Fertilization attempts. Count 'em.............five.

We got lucky on cycle # 6 and have our little girl who is 14 months old. She has her own medical challenges that tie me up pretty often, but I digress. This is about glass!

I love glass, I adore glass and I will write about glass and my life-

I am interesting and funny, I swear! Ask anyone! It will be a good read!

So the basics-my glass company is Talisman Art Glass and I will link you to my Etsy site. I started Talisman when I needed some luck. And Talisman has been lucky for me-

Thank God