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She's warm.
She's caressable.
She's an heirloom in the making.
Pashmina, the Chess Queen.
This is definitely a chess piece, gotta be the ivory queen because she's so powerful and feminine at the same time. She's got an incredible texture, thanks to the properties of dark ivory Effetre glass. She's got attitude, too, thanks to me (but you already knew that, didn't ya?).
The name Pashmina comes from the Christmas present from my sister, a pashmina shawl that is soooooo caressable, soooooo warm, soooooo durable. . . and I think this particular "Pashmina" reflects many of those traits in her face.
I've been thinking about all sorts of ideas this week while I was away from the torch, and this is one of them-- instead of making an entire chess set in one fell swoop, why not make a series of extraordinary glass queens who can replace their ordinary chess piece counterparts? Each one will be a collectible, but in a very usable way. Your own signature chess piece, how's that for cool on the board?
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. . .okay, I'm a packrat, I admit it. Every time I go to Kentucky to visit my parents, I trek out to my dad's shop and dig through Pop and Bubby's junk buckets. Mind you, this is a big shop, these are big boys who play with big toys, and the five-gallon junk buckets they set aside are merely a, well pardon the pun, but they are merely a drop in the bucket. That's where I come in! To lure me away from the big pieces of junk I'd like to latch onto, the boys let me dig through their junk buckets. Dig, I do, too! You just never know what you might want to use with molten glass! Up to now, I've only made one glass goodie on a rusty bolt, but today I decided to do a little more creative mixing of media. That's what is in the kiln right now, but I thought fellow packrats might enjoy a virtual dig through the junk buckets I have :)
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Listen, can you hear Springsteen's gravelly voice singing the haunting refrain? "Don't you feel like a rider on a downbound train. . ." As I was melting this piece of glass, Springsteen was singing "She just said, Joe, I gotta go. We had it once, we ain't got it anymore. She packed her bags, left me behind. . ." **sigh** How can you not feel the melancholy emotion in that song? "Last night, I heard your voice. You were crying, crying, so alone. You said your love had never died. You were waiting for me at home.. .I ran til I thought my chest would explode... then I fell to my knees on my head and cried. . ." Fall deep into that despair, and it might take you a while to climb back out. That's what's cool about melting glass, though. You can let yourself fall deep into a song or a thought or an image, torch it, and then bring yourself back to real life.
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Heaven, Lord, Mother, Whoever Is on My Watch Today, please let me look at this and see the reminder that it is. Wings unfurl slowly and gently on a human soul because we grow in increments. We do not wake up one morning and say, "That's it, I'm now perfect. Thank goodness that task is done." No, hard as it is to accept, only omnipotent beings attain instant perfection. . .and I am only human. This is a gift, though, and I have only to look closely to realize what a wondrous gift it is. The gift is this: I am free to treat each day, each week, each season, each year, as a new beginning, as yet another opportunity to begin unfurling the wings of my soul and grow some more. I am free to let those wings unfurl gently, warming in the sun, testing the breeze, retreating when necessary to gather strength for a longer flight. I am free to choose my path of flight, free to experience the world with wings newly unfurled.
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"Reduce, Recycle, Re-Use" Working on the first two, but the last one is really my favorite! Reducing consumption of energy and materials makes sense for the future, but doesn't do anything about all the "stuff" we already have. Recycling is great for commonplace items like newspapers, soda cans, paperboard packaging, etc, but it still requires the use of more energy. Re-using, though, that's my thing! The energy and materials have already been expended to make something. . . if you can re-use it instead of throwing it away or even recycling, you have conserved energy and kept something from a landfill. Not to mention that re-using is like a treasure hunt! Find it, RE-DEFINE it, and you've done a good thing! And, that's where this new goddess' name comes from: redefining--> ReDefinia. Hope you like her and her message!
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