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WISH, a simple snow globe
Close your eyes and make a wish. There — sparkling in the sunshine, whispering on the tips of dandelion seeds, your wishes ride off into the breeze. Shake this snow globe and watch the tiny silver...
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Scissorhands sparkle globe
Ah, Scissorhands, the sound of one hand slicing. A sculpted clay hand in bronze tones wears gold-toned scissors at the ready. When shaken the snow globe explodes with flecks of silvery slivers, and an...
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Running Out of Time snow globe
Running out of time … what if it weren’t that time were running out? What if you were running? This globe reminded me of the powerful thoughts in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. Vonnegut’s Billy...
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Chill ….
Remember that feeling, so peaceful, that you imagine your thoughts are gently carried on a cool breeze? Let the world swirl around you, while you sit back and … chill. Chill: original hand sculpted...
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Long and Winding Road
Life’s like that: a series of twists and turns where you end up in an unexpected place. Maybe it makes you laugh, maybe you feel frightened by what you cannot predict. Sometimes life takes you to a...
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Hammerhead, or the virtue of being stubborn
I wish I could tell you that I sketched out the lovely profile of Ms Hammerhead and carefully sculpted her exactly as I dreamed her. But that is hardly the case. I was in the early stages of...
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Heads of Clay – work in progress
I have a file on my computer called “Heads of Clay.” When you peek inside you see all the progress I’ve made, learning to sculpt exactly that. These tiny clay skulls are less than two inches tall — it...
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Rock Lobster
There was a lobster. There was a guitar. They made beautiful music together. Oh yeah, there was a snow globe with no snow. It had beautiful aqua liquid and when shaken, sea creatures and...
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Open Studio and a snow globe cake pop
Well, I should have been in the studio making snow globes, because I owe a few to people I’ve promised, but I needed to create something special for tonight’s open studio in Denver’s RiNo district....
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Perpetual Penguins
Adding and subtracting, combining and reducing, twisting and turning … Yep, art’s like that. We like M.C. Escher and his drawings of fantastic stairways where one climbs endlessly. We like ice storms....
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Fate Loves the Fearless
It was just a phrase in a magazine article, reading casually, waiting for my hair to be cut. “Fate loves the fearless.” I wish I could remember who said it and in what context, but I’ve lost the...
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A Video About Snow Globes
I can’t really tell if Mike Rugnetta likes snow globes or not. But he made a video all about them. (He’s part of the Idea Channel at PBS Digital Studios.) You decide for yourself. Snow Globes! ❆ Idea...
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Keep Flying …
A special request was granted … keep flying. Metal airship inside liquid-filled glass snow globe; when shaken the liquid sky fills with silver flecks of energy. Leather wrapped base with hand embossed...
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Grand Adventure balloon
Ever feel like it’s time for a Grand Adventure, but you don’t know exactly where you want to go? Remember the wise words of Lewis Carroll: If you don’t know where you are going you are sure to get...
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Bang!
I was asked recently if I had any snow globe featuring weapons. Hmmm, let’s see. Keeping in mind that these sculptures are about two inches tall and completely non-functional, of course, the answer is...
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Small Arms
Been a little crazy around here, and I’ve neglected to post for too long. I hope you love a visual pun as much as we do. One of a kind liquid-filled snow globe with metallic sparkles and shimmery dust...
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Special Delivery
I loved the charm of this tiny bicycle delivery guy. What better way to send a little love to someone special? One of a kind snow globe (sparkle globe) with glass heart and beads, miniature figure...
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I’ll be watching you (Paul Kirchner rocks)
I saw this cartoon and it put me in a Small World frame of mind. If you enjoyed this illustration, go check out Paul’s other work at : http://www.paulkirchner.com/ This cartoon panel reminds me a bit...
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Black Sails
Have you ever heard the saying, “that ship has sailed?” I planned to take a series of fabulous photos of our newest airship snow globe when we got back to Colorado after showing at the spring One of a...
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Geodesic Dome/Dome
It’s an intriguing shape, the geodesic dome. Simply, interlocking straight lines are used to create polygons, those polygons in turn become a curved hemisphere shape, like half of a soccer ball or a...
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