Each Saturday in September there will be special plant sales, local artisans, vendors, & not-for-profit organizations as well as a food truck!
I will be one of the local artists on September 10 at Lockwood’s Garden Center in Hamburg from 9 to 4.
https://weknowplants.com/events/event:september-saturdays-2022-08-12-2022/
BUFFALO STYLE GARDEN ART SALE
June 25 & 26 Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
https://www.gardensbuffaloniagara.com/buffalo-style-garden-art-sale
HAMBURG GARDEN WALK
July 9 & 10 Memorial Park
http://hamburggardenwalk.com/index.html
ARTISAN MARKET
July 16 Reinstein Woods
https://reinsteinwoods.org/events/artisan-market/
GLEN PARK ART FESTIVAL
July 30 & 31 Glen Park
https://www.glenparkartfest.com/
While my gardens sleep under their blanket of snow, I am still inspired to create Sterling Clay leaves!
I only have two indoor plants at the moment- a large coleus I dug up last fall and a small primrose from my local market. Thought I might try another type of leaf to imbed in the clay. Inspiration struck as I was eating my spinach salad! Why should flowers have all the fun?
Although I only participated in a few art festivals during 2020, I tried to maintain a decent level of creative production. The most fun was experimenting with Sterling Metal Clay, sculpting leaf pendants using tiny garden foliage imprints.
My kilns work overtime firing glass, pottery and Metal Clay. These are a few of my violet leaves, forever transformed into Sterling jewelry, displayed in one of my handmade glass bowls.
Warm wishes for a wonderful new year filled with hope and good health. Looking forward….
Although I have no shows scheduled for the foreseeable future, I feel inspired each day to continue creating.
One of my favorite new discoveries is called MetalMagic- a truly fun way to transform garden leaves into wearable Sterling silver pendants.
Small leaves pressed onto the thinly rolled clay are kiln-fired to 1600 degrees Fahrenheit for 60-90 minutes. This allows the binder to burn away, leaving the silver, which is .960 pure -slightly higher than Sterling. Upon removal from the cooled kiln, I clean, oxidize, and polish the silver leaves.
Over the Buffalo Moon 