First show in Florida....

...is tomorrow! We've finally managed to relocate to my beloved Florida. It took me 25 years....but I'm FINALLY here and loving it! We are looking forward to moving ARTful Salvage into a whole new level now. It was sooo frustrating having the move take 6 months instead of 6 weeks!!  Ugh! But we are HERE!

So, I guess now you understand why there has been very little posting.....so sorry. :( But that is about to change. We are doing 3-4 shows before the end of this year and I have finally gotten my ART Studio and my Glass Studio unpacked and functional. Woot Woot! I cannot wait to get back to repurposing and making ART!

I wish you could have seen the poor packing people when they came. I am affectionately now know as the CRAZY glass lady. I had 30 Dish Packs of loose glass dishes (18 x 18 x 28), 15 DP with finished totems, not to mention probably 10 DP filled with stained glass. I doubt they will ever forget me!!  LOL

I will have many more pics to share after the show tomorrow but I can show you the new plate flowers I made. I finished up 12 and have snapped pics of a few that are heading out with us. Hubs needs to make some more copper stems before the next shows. Anywho.....here they are. (Do click on them to really see the details if you please).

Flowers are springing up all over the place....

.....glass plate flowers that is. We have been working hard to get a dozen flowers ready for our next booth tomorrow. We are heading down to the Flint River for our local town festival, "River Town Days." We will be selling our Glass Garden Beauties from 7-3, keeping our fingers crossed for no rain.

The flowers are placed on stems of copper pipe, embellished with hand-cut and veined copper leaves and tendrils. Here are a few of the posies we have created:

I also finished up this mosaiced stained glass window for the show. It is all done is blues and greens with a gentle wave pattern. I think it is very soothing in design. I sure hope it finds a new loving home tomorrow!!  :)

Close up of two of the panes:

So, until next time.....off to the River we go.......

The Farmer's Market

Here are some pics from Saturday's Farmer's Market. It is part of the Georgia Made, Georgia Grown program. We lucked out with the weather. The rain finally stopped around 6 am. We began setting up at 7 am. We had a decent show. We were able to sell 8 pieces, including 2 of the 3 flowers that DH has been making. Now he has to keep making them. :::smiles::: (Not to fear, we bought 100 new plates today). LOL We need to find a good source for sheet copper to use for the leaves though.

We were just getting ready to start packing up when one of the other vendors walked up. He said he was going to be the "King of Mother's Day." His wife has been wanting a stained glass window for their bedroom and he graciously bought my first mosaiced window. I was beyond elated!  Makes me laugh wondering how he will top next year!!  :)  Now I have to make another window before Saturday. Fortunately I have one half done. (The black lines on the window are just from the stand).

Guess that is all for now. We have acquiring many new goodies to repurpose that will be appearing in the future. Right now, we are working on some new pieces for Saturday's Booth at our local town festival. Stay tuned......