Artist Spotlight: Part Ninety-One

You've met the talented Kris here before, but now she's got two shops at Handmade Artists!  The one from which I've shopped is Reflections, where she's got all her wonderful glasswork, ornaments, paperweights, wind chimes, vases, suncatchers, candle holders, and crazy amazing art.

Getting ready for Valentine's Day!

 

I love this tetrahedron!  I have one like it, but this is beautiful.  They're just so fun to look at and definitely a conversation piece for your desk.

I just love these wind chimes! 

The other is lisianblue, where she makes available her amazing knitted and crocheted items, quilts, and some other amazing things.

How cute is this snake?  It's a necklace, a toy, a lariat... all at once!

This piece, quilted, beaded, and collaged, just absolutely blows me away.

To keep up with Kris, be sure to follow her blog.  Never know what she'll create next!

The Sun Came Out!

It had been raining for a couple days, so I decided to do up another Handmade Highlight, focusing on sunny works by my fellow artists at the Handmade Artists Forum.  So I bring you... The Sun'll Come Out Tomorrow!

You can see the actual Highlight here, and from there check out each piece in its artist's shop.  Trust me, it's worth it!

Artist Spotlight: Part Sixty

Wow, I've done quite a few of these, haven't I?  Well, I've got a treat for you this week, something different.  Glass (and clay) artist Kay, of Kayz Kreations.

Kay has been doing stained glass and mosaics for several years and enjoys both, especially her ability to create unique and charming items for home and garden.  Hailing from Killeen, TX, she definitely has an affinity for items with Texas themes.

Like so many of the artists I bring you, Kay is multitalented.  She started with a stained glass class at a community college and was hooked.

(Have you started your holiday shopping yet?  How perfect would this be to decorate your home for your holiday dinner or party?  Or as a gift for someone you love?  Find it here.)

A year later, Kay took a mosaics class and started to run with that too!

I love the humor in that one.  So cute for a kid's bedroom or clubhouse door!  Or heck, there are days I'd love to hang it on my own door!

About 2.5 years ago, Kay took a fused glass class and added that to her talents too.

As a lover of gardening, a lot of her items and themes are for the outdoors, like these fun garden stakes in stained glass and clay.

Or these great birdfeeders.

And this really pretty birdhouse.

She used recycled bottles for this fun wind chime.

And she's even expanded into the world of jewelry!

You can read on her blog how she won a contest with this cool and interesting necklace.

And you can shop her wares in her Etsy and Zibbet shops.

Artist Spotlight: Part Fifty-Five

You've met this talented Aussie before, here, here, and here.  Yup, Haffina of Haffina's Creations!

This time, I thought I'd focus on the wares in her Handmade Artists Shop.  So...

Check out this Men's red diamond pendant on leather.  You don't see a lot of male-oriented jewelry on handmade sites, so this is especially fantastic, made from a faceted glass pendant.

Or there's this kumihimo and polymer clay bracelet or anklet.  She braided the kumihimo herself and made the polymer clay beads by hand too!

Or this green circles seed bead choker necklace, which includes freshwater pearls.

See for yourself!

Artist Spotlight: Part Fifty-Two

You've met her here before, but she's definitely worth a second look!  I'm talking about Kimberly of Makin' the Best of It!

She's so freakin' talented!  I'm completely in love with her sea glass jewelry.

But check this out.  When she finds pieces of sea glass that are too big for jewelry... she makes angel Christmas ornaments!

How sweet are those?  And they go with any color scheme on any tree.  Too cute.

And yes, I know it's July and hotter'n hell out there.  So you're still thinking about the flowers blooming, I suppose.  OK, then, She's got that covered too, with this beautiful tea light circle set, hand painted with pretty flowers.

I love that she thinks in practical terms, too.  Her glassware and table top service items are really pretty, like this cruet set and these coasters.

I love sunflowers!  Personally, though, I'm thinking I should get one of her awesome butter dishes.  Our set of china is fairly new and they're not making the butter dish yet, so we're dishless in that category.  And this one is so pretty!

The good thing about stuff like this - butter dishes, cruets, coasters - is that they really don't need to match your china.  They can be specialty pieces for that pop of something interesting, colorful, and unique.

Artist Spotlight: Part Forty-Nine

Today, I'd like you to meet the mulitalented artist, Lisianblue of Albuquerque, NM.  OK, so her name's really Kris, but her favorite flower is the lisianthus and her favorite color's blue (so's mine!).  Of course, in learning that about her, I had to look up lisianthus flowers, and I see why she likes 'em so much.  Check it out.

Beautiful!  So I see why she chose Lisianblue for her business name.  Speaking of which, although that photo didn't come from Lisianblue, she is an art photographer, who sells prints and cards of her flower photographs on Artfire!  And as one who's taken my own fair share of photos of flowers, I think I'm a fairly good judge of botanical photography.  Her's are gorgeous.

Am I right?  (That was a rhetorical question, silly.  Of course I'm right.)

Her penchant for flowers translates really well into another one of her art forms, painting on glass, like she's done on this ornament.

When it comes to her glass painting, I love this vase and this other ornament too.

Painting isn't all she does with glass, though.  She etches it too.

And shapes it into suncatchers.

And fills it with crystals and solders it into paperweights!

Her glasswork can be found, together with her crocheted and knitted items at her other Artfire shop.

Wait.  What?  Crochet and knit?  Yup.  Now a grandmother herself, Kris' own grandmother taught her to knit and crochet when she was eight.

Cozy!  And while her grandmother was teaching her to make those awesome things, her mom was teaching her the joy of making gifts for loved ones, like this bunny I found on her blog.  She made it for her granddaughter.  How sweet is that?

She's got a more up-to-date blog too, that you should really check out.  Enjoy!