ON THE ROAD AGAIN!

I completed the church commission in Iowa and the windows were installed! A dedication ceremony will be held next weekend. The photos will be uploaded as soon as my laptop heals from it's "black eye!" 
I head out today to another new client in New Glarus, Wisconsin. She has chosen a hexagon pattern containing oak leaves to adorn her front porch! I'm looking forward to this commission. It is smaller (26 inches) so it will give me some much needed instant gratification. I enjoy the large commissions but now and again it is nice to do a piece and be done in a week or so. LIFT UP YOUR ART! With gratitude, Laurie

PAYING IT FORWARD

Hello readers,

I have spent the morning fixing one broken piece in a very large panel. I am done and ready to put the frame back on. Repair work is my nemesis however the more I practice the more patient and relaxed I remain.  On we go! Here are a couple of photos of a sweet 8 year old "temporary assistant" working on a new commission sign called Roughing It In Style. You can visit their website at http://www.roughingitinstyle.com/ It is a beautiful line of stores. I am going to be creating a piece for them soon. My temporary assistant was very very interested in this art form and since I was soldering and working directly with the glass I asked her to assemble the patterns for me. She did a wonderful job! Pay your art forward! Share your passion! LIFT UP YOUR ART! Laurie

PROGRESS ON THE STAINED GLASS CHURCH WINDOWS

 

I am adding additional photos today of the progress being made on the church windows. It's going very well and I'm getting ready to grind each individual piece of the first panel. The photos I've added show some of the pattern pieces adhered to the sheets of glass and then the "pile" of pattern pieces that have been cut and are now ready to grind! Progress. One small step at a time. LIFT UP YOUR ART! With Gratitude, Laurie

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Blog Post #300

Hello to all of my Blogger Friends! I will be packing up my studio equipment and glass today. I'm SO excited to be moving into my new studio!!! The church windows will be my first commission in the new digs! WHOOT! With Gratitude, Laurie B.

Prudence gets her first Christmas Tree

THE QUEST

Good evening friends! I was cleaning up my computer system and stumbled upon something that I typed up well over a year ago. It is the opening dialogue from HEROES...I remember being moved by it at the time and at the time of this posting, it has taken on a new meaning for me. Little did I know when I typed it up where I would be in this moment in time! Life is SUCH a journey!! I want to share it in the hopes that it touches your heart the way it touched mine. THE QUEST Where does it come from This quest? This need to solve life’s mysteries When the simplest of questions can never be answered. Why are we here? What is the soul? Why do we dream? Perhaps we’d be better off not looking at all. Not delving. Not yearning. But that’s not human nature. Not the human heart. And That is not why we are here. Yet still we struggle to make a difference. To change the world. To dream of hope. Never knowing for certain who we will meet along the way. Who among the world of strangers will hold our hand? Touch our heart? Share in the pain of trying? We dream of hope, of fire, of love, of death And then it happens. The dream becomes real. And the answer to this quest, This need to solve life’s mysteries Finally Shows itself. Like the light of a new dawn. So much struggle for meaning and In the end We find it is in each other, Our shared experience of the fantastic And the mundane. The simple human need to connect and To know in our hearts we are not alone.