Iron Deficiency

So, my daughter keeps a pretty tight rein on the grocery budget at her house, and my cute son-in-law in suffering from an acute case of too-much-pasta-not-enough-meat syndrome.  Inside this Lady Gaga inspired gift tin is a gift certificate for some Christmas relief.  Shhhhhh.  Don't tell!  It's a Christmas meat secret!  What do you think?

One Tin, Two Tin, Gold Tin, Blue Tin

Tintintintintintintintintintintintin

Going in Circles

Voici mon atelier!

Quand j'ai regardé mon blog et les sources, j'ai vu que le populaire était un site qui fait un traduction français.  Donc, j'ai décidé de faire un poste français, meme si je sais que je ne parle pas très bien français.  C'est un effort de montrer que j'aprécie mes amis français et canadiens.  Vive l'argile polymère partout!

Focal Bead Bracelets, uh huh

Texture!

Studio

Studio

Here's My Studio!

Notice all the workable space on my clay table.

Button, Button

My Studio

My muse is not a sweet, ethereal whisper in my ear.  Oh, no.  She's very real and sometimes bossy.  She told me to take a picture of my studio and post it on my blog.  She said that people love stuff like that.  Well, I must admit that I love stuff like that.  I look at the tidy studios and wonder how anything creative could ever come from such a sterile and orderly place.  I look at the messy ones and wonder how anything lovely could ever come from such chaos.  No, that's not true.  What I really think when I see a messy studio is that I've found an instant friend.  I, too, am a pig.  I organize only when my work surface has shrunk to mere inches on the table in front of me.  Give me a surface and I'll pig it up.  I couldn't tell you what color my desk is.  I'm not proud of this fact.  It's just the way it is.  Time in my studio is so precious.  Why would I clean when I could be creating?
    So, get ready.  I'm going to post a couple of pictures of my studio.  Not right now, but soon.  I'll have to muster some courage first, like stepping on the scales at a Weight Watchers meeting.

Art Barn Holiday Show Info

Mary Anne Loveless' art will be available for holiday gifts at the Art Barn on Finch Lane beginning November 30th through December 19th. My art will be available for purchase along with other hand-made items. I'd love to have you come!

Here's their ad:

The 29th annual Holiday Craft Exhibit and Sale opens on Friday evening, November 30, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. with a Holiday Gallery Stroll reception from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. on Friday, December 7. The exhibit and sale is then open daily beginning Saturday, December 1 and continuing through Wednesday, December 19 from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. For more details, check out www.slcgov.com/arts.

Rag Rug Tin

Tin Tin Tin

Tiny Tin 3

Tiny Tin 2

Tiny Tin 1

Art Barn on Finch Lane

Hey, you locals who follow my blog!  I'll be at the Art Barn near the University of Utah campus for their Arts and Crafts Holiday Sale.  http://www.slcclassic.com/arts/pages/vizarts.htm

Striped Teacup with Jade and Turquoise

24 Bead Necklace

Drop the Teacup Necklace

Sea Greens, Buffed and Banded Necklace

Buffed and Beaded Necklace

Couldn't sleep.  Up at 1:23 am.  Decided to finish this labor-intensive necklace.

Bangles in the foreground, weeds in the background.

Concave Dangles

Teacup beads

My salute to the queen's jubilee!

Addicted to Bangles

Bangles

Winter Pods

Art Deco-ish Bracelets

I usually can't be bothered with wearing a bracelet.  I might try to put one on in the morning, but it's usually off by noon.  I'm pretty excited about these, though.  They are actually so comfortable that I wear them all day.  Well, not all of them.  Just one.  The focal bead is sanded and then buffed within an inch of its life, the chalcedony, pearls, and agate are smooth, and the fluted tube bead is all polymer, so it's like wearing nothing at all...on your wrist.

Oyster Pendant

Oysters create pearls because they get a little irritated by a grain of sand and then overreact...at least I think that's how it happens.  This oyster-like pendant, however, had no such irritation.  It came about by the process of playing in my studio over the weekend.

Concave Bracelet

Maybe I need to get a hand model for my new concave, mokume gane rings, unless you think people will like my oven-burned, fifty-three year old hands with polymer under every fingernail.  What do you think?

Under the Big Top

Fancy Frame

Brace Yourself

Bracelets with a Focus

Oooooh, I'm having fun in my studio!  Some may call it manic;  I just say that my muse woke up!

Totally Tubular Bead

Don't you love it when you get a little germ of an idea?  These long, thin-walled, black beads make up most of these new bracelets.  They are surprisingly strong and flexible, and I can use them to frame a focal bead.  They are tricky to work with in their raw condition, but I'm pretty happy with where this might take me.

Better Picture, Swirl of Swag

You wanna do a contest?

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You don't have to be pretty to love dancing.

Swirl of Swag

A Swirl of Swags

Red Flower Swagger

More Manicotti

Come on, Spring!

Oh, oh, oh! on red

Oh, oh, oh!

More Manicotti

Pendant