Libzoid Blog

I’m on creative cloud nine right now. I am having so much fun marrying metal and polymer clay. It feels amazing to be back in the creative groove again. I missed this so much, and during the long dry time I was sure I would never recapture the mojo. It’s such […]

I had an amazing weekend creatively speaking. I spent two days at the Brookfield Craft Center in a class on Cold Connections with Robert Dancik. Several years ago a friend had urged me to take a class with him some day because, she said, “He’ll make you look at everything differently”. Well, […]

I am sitting here in my dad’s living room looking out over a marshy view of the Connecticut River, listening to a cacophony of bird song and intermittent breeze.  It’s a lovely and somewhat unexpected gift.  My dad had a medical procedure this morning, a biopsy to check for recurrence of cancer, and […]

Creative time in the summer feels like stolen moments here and there. Somehow I seem to forget this every year. I like the slower pace of summer and I really like being able to sleep past 5:55 a.m., but with the kids home from school, my time isn’t my own. Things should settle into a […]

It has been a crazy week.  Being away for a week means playing catch up, and the last few days of school just intensifies the whole situation.  It hit me recently that last year I came home from Bead & Button and the packers came to box all our things for the move the very […]

I took some pictures of the polymer clay category of Bead Dreams. They’re not the greatest photos, lots of reflections etc. It’s wonderful to see the amazing array of work in the exhibit, but the layout of the exhibit is always disappointing. It’s in glass cabinets four shelves high. Some of […]

It’s Saturday night and my week at Bead & Button is coming to a close.  This is the point where I really wish I could blink myself home magically.  It has been fun on so many levels, but I am ready to go home.  I miss my family and I am anxious to decompress and […]

This is going to be a quick “drive-by” post so I can head out to class. Yesterday afternoon I was in Anne Mitchell’s Viking Knit Chain. Ok, it really was as easy as my friends have been telling me.  It helped to have someone show the technique in real life though. Anne Mitchell is a […]

Wednesday, mid-week. My energy held until the last bit of the Meet The Teachers Reception when the yawning took over. I wrote part of this post in the early evening before the “Meet” event and I am finishing it now on Thursday morning. Bear with me if I seem disjointed or my […]

Today started off at a relatively leisurely pace.  There wasn’t any evening activity so the workshops started at 9:30 am.  Tomorrow’s workshop starts at 8:00 am and ends at 3:00 because there’s another round of evening workshops plus the “Meet The Teachers ” reception.  ugh…  I may have to take a nap at 3:00.  I […]