Details before the mud........

More pieces....ready to add grout tomorrow.  It's a risk, covering everything with mud, but I usually love the results.....we shall see tomorrow.....then it sits for a couple of days and then I will had a tinted glaze, which makes a big difference too.  At this stage  the handwritten French journal pages, & the music sheets have been applied, a crackle glaze has been added....antiquing has been done, the reiki symbols have been placed.....the nautilas shell and rusted metal leaves have been attached and finally the tempered glass has been applied.  And the Reiki blessing has been done.  Then...it gets covered in mud.

Here's another one in the same stage...pre-mud.  This one has a large Reiki symbol under the tempered glass and over the beautiful French journal pages from 1881

And also this one.....there is a shell of a coconut holding a metal piece framing an iron top from an old iron fence probably.  Found in a Paris flea market....I've added some tarnished silver antique metallic netting to this piece and I'm interested to see how that will show up with the grout added.

Studio table....cleaned up and ready for tomorrow's grouting session.

"I have arrived. I am home"..... Rumi

Heaven is being back in my studio.......

I have a couple of projects that bring me back into my studio....

I'm putting together an online class in creating how to make a Jeweled Headdress.  That should be fun.  I love head pieces and they're fun to make.  Also, Fire Mountain Beads has asked me to create a piece that they can use in one of their ads.  So I have piles of their wonderful beads to use to put together a piece.  

I'm thinking of creating a goddess/wave piece....not sure how it will come out.  Right now it's just an impression....a blurry vision of blues and beads.... cream color pearls as foam....and a figure worked into the crest of the wave.