This is an older commission I did for a friend last year. I really had fun translating the image of the sun breaking through the clouds with glass.

10 More Arrested for Blocking Pipeline Construction on Peaks

10 More Arrested for Blocking Pipeline Construction on Peaks

Here is my latest commission, created for Burnell Yow! of Raven's Wing Studio. Burnell's studio is located in Philadelphia and he is a master of creating amazing things from discarded items. Dolls of the Apocalypse are some of my favorites of his creations!

Having traveled to Sedona, he and wife Betsy, who is an accomplished musician, fell in love with the landscape. So we created this design to show his raven soaring over Bell rock with the full moon. As an added element I used a flashed cobalt blue glass and sandblasted stars into the night sky. Over in the right side of the night sky you can find a cluster of stars known as "Corvus". In our sky it can be seen soon after dark in the south, southwestern sky just above the horizon.

Love and Light
Christina

Heart of the Lotus Comes Home!

So this is the final piece as it looks sitting in my window of my studio. Just this week, Gail called to tell me it has been installed in the door and it has made it to her final resting place in her home in Oak Creek. I can hardly wait to see it! This has been a wondrous journey, from the first phone call to a new and loving friendship. I believe one of the most exciting aspects of my creativity is working with people to help them bring to life the ideas they have in their hearts and minds. It's a beautiful collaboration! What can I create for you?
Happy New Year!
1/1/11

New Name: Raven's Eye CreativeWerks

Raven's Eye Glassworks has now grown to Raven's Eye CreativeWerks. Here is a small preview of my jewelry that will be featured at Zani's Cards & Gifts located at 107 W. Phoenix av, Flagstaff, AZ. Come Join us for December's First Friday Artwalk.

Top image: "Whimsical Goddess", cut glass seed beads, brass, cloisonne beads, raku.

Below: "Tribal Goddess", Batik yak bones capped in sterling silver, graced with pearls, sterling silver heishi, and glass beads.

New Moon in Virgo: Deb O'Connor's wise words

Please share these notes with your friends.

New Moon in Virgo

3:30 AM PDT

Wednesday

September 8, 2010

"To meet everything and everyone through stillness, instead of mental noise, is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe.” Eckhart Tolle

Take a deep breath. Please. And another.

In the spirit of these last days of retrograde Mercury in Virgo . . . and of the moon renewing itself in Virgo early this morning, I'm going to keep this note simple.

Every new moon is born out of the dark. And this empty dark is fertile ground for the nourishing seed of your desire to notice the difference between the voice within you which is clear and present, and that other voice . . . the one which isn't yours anyway.

Please be aware of any thoughts or words rising within you which are blaming you for being inadequate. They are ghosts of other times and other people. They do not belong to you. Simply say STOP. Do not let these confidence-bashing words into your head any more. And if you feel yourself picking away critically at someone else, please just stop. When you try to analyze what's happening, you will only find yourself standing in a deeper hole.

We are being tutored in the fine art of humility. This is a different concept than shame. Please be sure you notice the difference.

What if a humble approach to our lives means that we focus our attention on the nobility of a simple squash lying in the garden rather than on the blathering voice coming out of our television or radio or from inside our head?

What if humility means quieting our minds so that we can remember to lift our eyes to the dark, luminous night sky where hundreds of thousands of birds are migrating at night, guided by the stars?

Today is the perfect time to notice the perfection in all things, and to let that awareness be enough.

Many rich blessings upon you.

Deborah O'Connor

deb@lovedogdesign.com

406.531.5129

New work: Heart of the Lotus

Now that the Butterfly is done, "Costa Rica: Metamorphosis Part 3" I am focusing on my next commission, "Heart of the Lotus"

Here is the art work above and the piece in progress as it looks on my work bench. This will go in an entry way door. The size is 25"x 36".

When I first talked to Gail, I was boarding a plane to Chicago to relocate my Mom and Dad down to Little Rock, AR. My art was on hold and I had no idea when I would be able to resume my passion. But in those few minutes on the phone, I knew I really wanted to work with her! I was so happy when she called me back months later to start what has become a wonderful friendship!

Thank you Gail for having faith in me and understanding the chore I had to do and believing that I was the right artist to create this piece!

The elements for the "Lotus", including the tree, the red rocks, the sun and moon were inspired from Gail's home in Oak Creek Canyon.

I think what I love the most about creating glass for people is learning who they are and helping them bring to reality, a vision that they have.

This piece has a new challenge: the center of the lotus blossom will have a large crystal in the center, so it will be thicker then the glass and will have special consideration when soldering it together. I'll keep you posted on what I come up with and the final out come.

Peace,
Christina

Coming soon... Raven's Eye Glassworks expands into the world of jewelry. I have returned to my love of beads. Working with primarily Tibetan beads, semi-precious gems and minerals, seed beads and sterling findings. I am creating a line of necklaces that are substantial and earthy. Posting images soon!