This amazing collaborative piece was made with Dennis McConnell. He made the labyrinth and I made the little green people.
Urban Craft Uprising: promo from Behrens Films on Vimeo. This past weekend I traveled up to Seattle, Washington for the Urban Craft Uprising holiday show. Wow, what a show! It was quite the marathon of a weekend. My good friend Aimee came along and helped out. First we stopped by the Laika Studio for a quick holiday show on Friday
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Alright, let me tell you a story. I’m trying to practice telling stories about my business… 5 quick sketches that tell a lot about my work… enjoy! I have these clients that live up in Seattle. Their home perched on a steeply sloped street, a mid century contemporary modern building. Large panel windows in the living room look out over
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I finally have my new website up online to share with the world! This is very exciting new for me. Let me tell ya!! Click on the image above and it’ll send you over to check it out. I have always made my own websites for years, and they aren’t so spectacular. But I am a DIY kinda girl and
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This weekend was a global event held by Etsy bringing together small business owners to discuss human scale economies. Human scale Economies: a place where prosperity is measured not in dollars but in happiness and durability. There were conferences with livestream broadcasting in Berlin, Germany, Booklyn, NY, Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA, Washington, D.C., and here in Portland, OR.
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Pictured here is my beloved easel. Its pretty old and needs a little tender loving care, but its a great easel and has sentimental value for me. Even though I haven’t used it in a few years, I can’t bring myself to give it away. So I think I will weather-coat it and keep it outside. Damn thing is big
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I finally had an empty kiln available to do experiments over the weekend! I wanted to control all the variables and see the effects of changing the temperature the glass melts thru the screen… 3 major things seem to effect the melts: time, temp and quantity. So I kept the quantity of glass the same and the time it was
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This weekend I attended the gala fund-raising event of the year at the Tacoma Museum of Glass. It is called the Red Hot Summer Party & Auction. A collaborative piece that I worked on with Dennis McConnell was in the silent auction. The museum invites the artists to this event, and Dennis could not go, so I drove up to
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