The Grout Monster: aka Joanne Leva

1. Joanne Leva is the director of The Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program here in Pennsylvania.

2. She is one of Mosaic Woman's best friends.


3. She is the poet behind the Film Noir Events at the Ambler Theater.

4. She encouraged Mosaic Woman. We got commissioned for 25 picture frames while we were in the midst of Holiday Craft Show Mania. Joanne suggested she help grout. The project came into being as did the Grout Monster.


5. When we recently got commissioned to make mosaics of the fruits of the spirit, we decided to make a gift for the Grout Monster for all her hard work. It gave us a way to estimate how long it would take to design those fruits and celebrate a friendship all at once.


6. Sunday she came over to grout again, Mosaic Woman prepared by getting out her green tape.



7. I prepared by setting up the tripod and camera...

vlog 2--- rising with stained glass and lots of orange and blue

yes, I need to start fading out the music but I had to switch the tune when Warner ripped out the audio of the first tune and I just wanted to finish it... but this tune swings!

finally, I play with iMovie and consider the vlog

still got lots to learn, but surely would love your feedback on my directorial debut:




Thanks

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The scraps of Faithfulness: doodling

I have three ideas of what to do with the scraps I have from the faithfulness project. This is the second that I started, and the first to be finished (hint: Mosaic Woman will be completing the first one). Can't say this is a totally jazzed up stratozpheric endeavor since some Bruce Springsteen was playing at one point. What I can say is this, I love this piece and holding it up to the light was a splendid moment in time. At this point it is in the suncatcher section of our etsy shop.

By the way, this was done in an entirely new way. I took 14 pieces of scrap glass, drew my favored shape on it, cut them out, and then did the doodling. Normally when I do a stratozpheric doodle of glass, I cut out pattern pieces which I glue to glass, then doodle. And if you are interested in how it emerged, I started with the big piece, and swirled around with smaller and smaller pieces.




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Wordless Wednesday: Tulip Mania at Longwood

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Jazz on Tuesdays--- for Bob Dylan on his 70th

surprisingly or not, I used to be quite a Bob Dylan fan back in the day...

faithfulness 2: it is a heavy word

The letters are cut but the thoughts and scraps of orange glass remain floating about my head.

I spoke of faithfulness the other night when I met with my spirit group at Gwynedd Friends Meeting House. I spoke of my new wedding ring. Then I said, "Faithfulness is a heavy word."

When I finished talking the group fell into silence, then folk asked me questions. One was to talk more about the heaviness. I tumbled into thoughts. I spoke of how joy, love, and peace were light words. I spoke of the ever presence of doubts. It seemed like I had not gotten a huge piece of fruit called faithfulness. But it is not like I don't also have sadness, hatred, and angst in my life. There seemed to be a huge "should" weighing fown the word. I can't imagine a God saying, "You better be joyful or not." But it seemed like I had no problem with God demanding faithfulness. It was not a fruit that grew within me, but a command. I wanted to spend time with the word.

For days I have been seeing the reflection of the letters in a mirror. The reflection is not heavy. I like that image and want to travel deeper into the word.

as always, I am curious what you think.

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