Mt Gretna, here I come!

What a busy month! I have a few things I am trying to accomplish as I am getting ready for the Mt Gretna Art Festival http://www.mtgretnaarts.com/ Aug 15th and 16th. The reason Mt Gretna is so fun is because it is one of the few shows that is close enough to home that my friends and fam can all go.

I have been trying to figure out the glass I would do for a mobile and I think I have it. It should be done by the show. I had wanted it done by last show!

Started doing a glass curve that can sit in a window or in front of a light. I have three finshed and I am REALLY happy with them. I'm hoping to also have some for gallery night this month at 2nd Floor Gallery http://www.2ndfloorgallery.com/ .

Besides that, I just finished making the sink for one of my bathrooms, I need to drill the hole in the bottom yet. I LOVE it. Of course, it's blue! Pictures will follow.

Wilmington,DE!

I found out this morning that I got a little feature on the PAGuild's site for their show this weekend. The photo they showed is my "Glasshopper" and I just hung it in my living room yesterday! The link is http://www.pacraftsblog.org/member-monday-linda-billet/ The show is at Chase Center of Wilminton, DE. It is Sat and Sunday, indoors. I will have a 10x10 booth.

Reading Public Museum

This is so freaking great! I got a piece of my work in the Reading Pubic Museum. The PA Guild of Craftsmen is having their "Raw to Refined" exhibit there for three months and I will be part of that. The piece they accepted is "Sunny Side Up," Tomorrow night is the opening reception. WoohOOOooo!

Halloweenie

Have been CRAZY busy. Just got a new movie editing program-AND a new camera. So here is the plan- I am doing a halloween piece for the October 2nd Floor Gallery opening that will be at a cemetery! So while I am working on it, I am taking little video clips and photos so that I can show how it is done. Then I am going to take all that- which is about a week's worth of glass cutting and cooking- and squish it into about 4 minutes so I can put it to a song. Seems weird to make a video without band kids in it.

Landfillproject.org

Late last year a great friend and fellow artist, Cristine Goldbeck- www.christinegoldbeck.com told me about landfillproject. A guy from Wilkes Barre, PA had all these hubcaps that he was trying to save from becoming landfill. He was sending hubcaps ("canvases") to professional artists and asking to have them returned as art. Well now the project has become much larger. It currantly includes art from 47 countries! The project will eventually become a traveling show and a book. It's completion is projected to be 2012. Check it out at http://www.landfillart.org/

We were lucky to have missed a tornado in Virginia Beach last weekend. Parts of VABeach had 2 inch hail falling! One of my pieces will soon have a home in France! (Thanks Pierre! Hope your wife likes it!) Hope to be in VABeach this September for Neptune Festval's art show.

Metamorphosis

Finished my recycled glass piece in time to take to VA Beach. I don't know which part I like best, the "fluff" marshmallow or the Mr. Peanuts. Some of the glass is really old. I had never heard of Kayo Chocolate before. The sobe lizards were the hardest to flatten so I lost a lot of them.

Re

OK, so you were wondering what I've been doing with all the glass that I've asked you to collect for me? Here is the START of my next piece. The PA Guild has an upcoming show called "Green" which is right up my ally. I have been thinking about working a caterpillar, butterfly, and chrysallis theme into the recycling, rebirth, reuse, repurpose mix. I spent the last few days sawing up jars and bottles and flattening the sculpted letters and pictures to use as tiles. They will be background for the fused glass tiles that I make. I will throw a little iridescent white in, maybe some of Shaundi's windshield that got smashed and we will see what happens, I'm hoping to have it done in time to take to VA Beach next weekend.