My family, and MOLTEN HOT GLASS AND FIRE!!!! Those are my first 3 passions. I Love to lampwork and create glass beads, sculptures, and marbles from glass rods and a torch. The creating with glass is my sanctuary and my therapy - without it, I go a little nuts. I also dabble in creating sterling silver jewelry and components to compliment my glass bead creations. I recently got a tumbler for polishing my silver so I'm planning more and more things that I want to make!
I just love to create with my hands. It's what keeps me sane! I've gotten a new torch after 10 years (think it was about time???) -a Bethlehem Piranha. I LOOOVVVVEEEE her! So versatile and it's the perfect torch for me. I'm still having a blast with it!
I love to garden, also and have worked hard to create some kind of a nice garden of perennials in my back and front yard. I would love to have a garden full of movement - art pieces that move with the wind. For now, I use a lot of tall grasses to achieve the movement effect. I'm planning to create a zen/yoga garden in a shady spot undera a tree in my yard. I even got moss for mother's day so it can go into the garden. ( I know, I'm weird.....who gets excited over moss???
Music
GD,DMB, John Mayer, Sting's new one...love it.... Some local music, Oh, man, am I supposed to list everything that I love??? Too many to mention.
I love and toured with the Dead for quite a few years (quite a few years ago). Those were the best times of my life and I do miss them. I miss Jerry the most.
I'm all over the place with music. I love almost everything, but don't play 99% of rap or contemporary music for me. Think people need to search their brains and come up with some lyrics and music that hasn't already been made and I'm tired of hearing how many women you had at "da club". :p
I have many VERY TALENTED musician friends who have consistently opened my world up to all sorts of music, and I'm grateful for that. You all know who you are and thank you so much!!!
TV I cannot live without - The Simpsons and Spongebob Squarepants. Fine, go ahead and laugh ... I'm a grown woman and my two favorite shows are cartoons. :)
I love House - that's about the only real show I make sure I catch every week. If I can, I watch the wife swap shows because I like to see prissy women freak out and have a meltdown ;)
Books
Siddartha (Herman Hesse) is my favorite book. I also loved A Million Little Pieces - even despite the fact that most of it turned out to be a farce - it still hit really close to home and was a very emotional read for me.
Creating Aritisan glass beads for unique jewelry designs. All of my work is digitally kiln annealed and guaranteed against all workmanship. www.geneseeglassworks.com
Hey Kristen, How are ya feelin? Pregnancy going good? I love your blog about passing the torch to your daughter. We are going to be there the weekend of Dec. 13th and since it's always so hard to see everyone my parents are having a little open house that Saturday (sort of a wedding celebration) but we'd love if you and Mark and Avery want to come by! You know where we are! It's from 1-4. Mark your calendar if you can! XO Stacy
Greetings from Winship Designs.....We hope your fall season is going great. visit our everchanging website for specials, sales and discounts on many items. You can always give us a call with questions........Toll free 1-877-893-9386. Take care ~ The winship crew, Dave, Deb, Ariel, Suzanne, Tom, Shannon - and Chester too!
Hey there – Hope your summer’s been going well. Just stopping by to remind you about the Strip Mines Music Festival this weekend!! ( Click here to purchase advance tickets online. )
In recent Strip Mines news, we have added Backyard Tire Fire to headline Sunday night, and now have printable flyers and posters available for download on our MySpace page and website for those of you that would like to help spread the word.
Click the image below to visit the website to purchase tickets and to get the latest info and band schedule. Thanks again for being a friend and have a great rest of your summer!
Non HTML version: Hey there – Hope your summer’s been going well. Just stopping by to remind you about the Strip Mines Music Festival this weekend!
In recent Strip Mines news, we’ve added Backyard Tire Fire to headline Sunday night, and now have printable flyers and posters available for download on our MySpace page and website for those of you that would like to help spread the word.
Visit www. stripminesfest. com to purchase tickets and to get the latest info and band schedule. Thanks again for being a friend and have a great rest of your summer!
