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Long and Winding Road
Life’s like that: a series of twists and turns where you end up in an unexpected place. Maybe it makes you laugh, maybe you feel frightened by what you cannot predict. Sometimes life takes you to a...
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Hammerhead, or the virtue of being stubborn
I wish I could tell you that I sketched out the lovely profile of Ms Hammerhead and carefully sculpted her exactly as I dreamed her. But that is hardly the case. I was in the early stages of...
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Heads of Clay – work in progress
I have a file on my computer called “Heads of Clay.” When you peek inside you see all the progress I’ve made, learning to sculpt exactly that. These tiny clay skulls are less than two inches tall — it...
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Perpetual Penguins
Adding and subtracting, combining and reducing, twisting and turning … Yep, art’s like that. We like M.C. Escher and his drawings of fantastic stairways where one climbs endlessly. We like ice storms....
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Grand Adventure balloon
Ever feel like it’s time for a Grand Adventure, but you don’t know exactly where you want to go? Remember the wise words of Lewis Carroll: If you don’t know where you are going you are sure to get...
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Bang!
I was asked recently if I had any snow globe featuring weapons. Hmmm, let’s see. Keeping in mind that these sculptures are about two inches tall and completely non-functional, of course, the answer is...
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Small Arms
Been a little crazy around here, and I’ve neglected to post for too long. I hope you love a visual pun as much as we do. One of a kind liquid-filled snow globe with metallic sparkles and shimmery dust...
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Special Delivery
I loved the charm of this tiny bicycle delivery guy. What better way to send a little love to someone special? One of a kind snow globe (sparkle globe) with glass heart and beads, miniature figure...
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I’ll be watching you (Paul Kirchner rocks)
I saw this cartoon and it put me in a Small World frame of mind. If you enjoyed this illustration, go check out Paul’s other work at : http://www.paulkirchner.com/ This cartoon panel reminds me a bit...
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Geodesic Dome/Dome
It’s an intriguing shape, the geodesic dome. Simply, interlocking straight lines are used to create polygons, those polygons in turn become a curved hemisphere shape, like half of a soccer ball or a...
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Happy Thoughts — the power of positive thinking
What are your happy thoughts? And those of the people around you? There are some folks who believe that thoughts and attitude are visible through auras surrounding a person. Healing thoughts, dark...
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Untangling “The Tangle”
We’re excited to have one of our liquid globes featured in the upcoming independent movie, “The Tangle” by writer/director/actor Christopher Soren Kelly. And while we are being patient for the movie...
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Hold Your Horses!
You hear a common phrase a thousand times, then one day you hear it anew: Hold Your Horses! Of course it harks back to a day when people used horses daily, when “hold your horses” probably meant “stop,...
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Another Door Opens
The inspiration was the word “threshold.” The deliberate act of crossing from one place into another. A door, a doorway, a beginning. But brick by brick, it took on deeper symbolism. Another door...
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Just a Girl and her Brontosaurus
There is no hidden meaning here, no subterfuge, no play on words. Just a girl. And her Brontosaurus. “Just a Girl and her Brontosaurus” – one of a kind custom snow (sparkle) globe. When the globe is...
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A Zeppelin Built for Two
Daisy, Daisy, tell me your answer true,I’m half crazy, all for the love of you.It won’t be a stylish marriage,I can’t afford a carriage.But you’ll look sweetUpon the seat,of a Zeppelin Built for Two....
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