Eye Love It!!

I'm sure you're all well aware of my eyeball obsessions/collections by now...

I'm happy to announce the newest addition to my eyeball family:

Antique Eye Chart!

Isn't it supercool??

I think the root of my eyeball obsession comes from the fact that my eyes were so messed up as a baby. I had to wear teeny tiny glasses at age 3 months and have an eye surgery at age 3 years. All this resulted in lots and lots of trips to the eye doctor's office. All of it is burned into my memory--the waiting room, the awful blur-inducing eye drops, and the loooooong dark examining room with the lighted eye chart at the end.

Well now I've got my own! The kids have been having fun checking their eyesight--kind of handy!

I think it will look good in the new house--I need to put it at the end of a nice long hallway!

My Glass Fx4

Happy Friday! This week flew by for me--maybe because of the Monday holiday? Anyway, it's time for Candid Carrie's Friday Foto Fiesta!! Please go over and join in the phun!!

Since I showed pics of some of my painting last week I thought I'd show some of my glass this week. I'm a glassblower (though I've slacked off and haven't done it in a few months) and these are pics of some of my paperweights--but paperweights are solid worked and not blown.

I like to make paperweights when I'm in the hot shop (that's glass talk!) by myself. If my partner is there, then we blow--but it's hard to do alone.

I'm probably going to get some freaks visiting my blog from Google after all this blowing talk! Hi freaks! Sorry--just talking about glassblowing--you'd better go now.

So anyway, I make a lot of paperweights because they're easy and I can experiment a lot with color, etc. A lot of these have glass beads (that I also made) inside of them. And a lot of the beads are of eyeballs because I have a thing for eyeballs. Oh, the iridescent-looking stuff is called dichroic glass. I love it and I use it a lot!

Thanks for looking!

Thanks for looking!!