I have been making more pickles, and got some super tiny 6mm tubing (they didn't have 8mm). These little pickles are gonna be much better for hiding on small trees- or for expert pickle finders.
Pickle game hard mode!
They are for sale at Urbanglass and you can even buy them and they can ship.
https://store.urbanglass.org/products/dreams-and-aspirations-neon-pendant-light-copy
The listing on their webstore claims they are 2 inches, however some of these new pickles are even smaller and better for hiding.
I will be selling them in person at the Resistor Holiday Market for $50 each an you can pick the size you like. Sunday, December 14th at NYC Resistor in Brooklyn from noon to 6.
Someone asked on one of my bountiful flame harvest days why the pickles I make aren't shiny at first. I explained that the cucumbers have to be "pickled" (with silver) to become shiny ;)
#nyc #gifts #game #glass #ornament #brooklyn #pickle #glassblowing #silver #handmade #punty #murano #emerald #muranoglass
Seeing the first holiday market invitations finally got me to do a thing I have been procrastinating since July.... make these little pickle ornaments.
I made the first one two years ago for my Mee Maw when her christmas pickle broke when her tree fell over and she couldn't find a small replacement one. The bigger replacement was so easy to find in the pickle hiding game, that she opted instead to use the old broken one for a few years.
So I took some of the Italian neon glass I know an love and made some lil tiny pickles. The more I make the better I get at making them. Now I wanna make more of them and silver the insides, but alas, holiday window season is rapidly approaching, and its neat to see some places using neon for their windows.
The smaller I make the pickles, the easier they are to hide on the tree for pickle game... and easier for me to ship :).
#neon #glass #muranoglass #flameworking #holiday #ornament #craft #handmade #brooklyn #nyc #advertising #sign
"Together"
Teableau for 10/22/25
Mute Swans by British artist Robert Gillmor.
Mute Swans are England's largest bird and only swan. We have them in Puget Sound, as well, but they're an invasive species here, crowding the native Tundra Swans nearly to extinction. Lethal beauty.
#Tea #MuteSwans #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #VintageChina #VintageGlass #Handmade #Sewing #HerbalTea #MuranoGlass #England #PNW #PugetSound #MosserGlass #ArtDeco #DepressionGlass
"Gather Ye Rosebuds"
Teableau for 09/25/25
"Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to day,
To morrow will be dying."
Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time
#Tea #Poetry #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #BlackTea #Handmade #Sewing #VintageChina #BlueWillow #MuranoGlass #Cats #RobertHerrick #PeachTea #Time
I made another neon doodle I have been wanting to make for awhile. A mini rasta doodle.
Blacklight is notoriously difficult (and expensive) but sorta fun when you get used to it. Of course Emerald, a usual nemesis of mine, was acting up. I shouldn't have left behind the imperfection from the emerald cracking the first time.
Long story short it isn't the kiln pumped 9 headed coil of black and colorful spikes that I wanted- but I did learn a few things. I want less green. Perhaps un-coated (transparent) emerald, or if I can find a larger diameter of emerald. I also want to use Saffron- the golden shade of yellow tubing instead of the easier to work with Sunflower. The saffron will make it more challenging, but a better warm white in the end. And bigger red sections.
I gotta make some acrylic box files. And a few more doodles.
#neon #nyc #brooklyn #Brownsville #glass #art #sculpture #handmade #muranoglass #softglass #color #rasta #blacklight #blackglass #smallart #forsale #doodle
I am showing work at two places in Brooklyn at the moment and Internet of Strings opens Saturday evening at 6pm till late. Perfect afterparty for a protest :)
Yes it costs $18/to get in, but there is a DJ and I hear free drinks too. Did I mention it's an interactive show?
With that link you can interact and blink my sticks sculpture from anywhere- so long as it isn't unplugged or cloudflare isn't down. You can't see it, but for my first node.js server sculpture, I don't think it's too bad. Eager to hear your thoughts though.
This stick chandelier has some neon I made while living in Texas, New Jersey and NYC in it :). The other tubes from one doodle were on TV with Elmo.
I am also in the glass n' glitter show at the Williamsburg "WAH" center that opened last Saturday.
Here is a link for the resistor show-
#nyc #sculpture #neon #glass #light #interactive #nodejs #brooklyn #hackerspace #lightart #art #handmade #muranoglass
🇮🇹 11/04/2025 Venise by night.
La suite de la visite, dans les ruelles on trouve de nombreux drapeaux vénitiens, des commerces qui vendent des porchetta et fromages locaux, beaucoup de vitrines artistiques (sculptures en verre de Murano).
The rest of the visit, in the alleys we find many Venetian flags, shops selling porchetta and local cheeses, many artistic windows (Murano glass sculptures).
🇮🇹 11/04/2025 Murano
Dîner ce soir à Murano à "Ai Vetrai", c'est plus tranquille qu'à Venise !
Comme d'habitude, je prends uniquement des plats locaux et spécialités locales.
- Seiche à l'encre accompagnée de polenta grillée
- Spaghetti "alle vongole", aux palourdes fraîches
#murano #venice #venezia #travel #italy #seafood #muranoglass
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