Linda's Magic Workshop - Linda Britt Design

Peter loves me!   He has spent many hours/ weeks/months (take your pick) making me an 8” deep cabinet that fits under the overhang of the peninsula between the kitchen and the dining room.   It is made of maple, glass and love.   There are five lighted sections.   It is a beautiful place to display and enjoy family treasures.   When the glass doors were installed, I was given bronze plastic rectangles to apply where I wanted.   They were to keep fingerprints off the glass.   They were ugly!   What to do? One of my favorite china patterns is ‘Thousand Faces’.   I love the bands of color and the gold overlay.   Polymer clay was just right for making a cane similar to the color bands of the china.   I decided to make a thin black box for the cane.   This is the cane that fits in the black boxes!   I baked it first.   Then I used Sculpey Bake and Bond to adhere the cane to the baked box.   There happened to be a bottle of gold Adirondack Ink in my paint box and a st

We’ve been driving by the exit sign for Montezuma Castle for two years.   We never took the time to stop and explore until this past weekend.   What an interesting place.   Montezuma Castle National Monument is about 50 miles south of Flagstaff, Arizona off I-17.   Big exit sign!   We parked and walked up to the visitor center to be greeted by a Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizard.   It seemed he was just waiting to be photographed!   The Greeter - Desert Grassland Whiptail The path from the Visitor Center was fairly short and the cliff we saw was very high.   The castle is a 5 story, 20 room dwelling built into the cliff recess 100 feet above the valley.   The Southern Sinagua farmers began building in the 1100’s Common Era.   It’s funny how places get named.   The early settlers assumed this place was Aztec in origin and named it Montezuma Castle.   We now know that Montezuma never came this far north from his home in Mexico.   Down the path a bit is another building complex

I just took Donna Kato’s class CONTEMPORARY SQUASH BLOSSOM PENDANTS from Craftartedu.com As I was about midway through the video, I realized that this might be one of the few classes where I actually stopped the video to make the project at each step just the way it was presented.   The end result was very close to the class photo with a few exceptions to color shading.   I’m very happy with what I learned and with the piece.   While making my squash blossom, I followed the directions for mixing the colors, backing the cane slices and applying the canes, etc.   Copying a piece makes me feel uneasy and that’s why I tend to just watch the video or take classes that show a technique and turn me loose.   Could be I’m missing some of the finer points that way!   Thanks Donna Kato! After I finished the pendant, I decided to use some of the leftovers and make buttons and beads.   Sharing some with you. Buttons ready to sell! Might be my next creation!