Category Archives: technique

Sermons and Seeds

The dVerse poetry prompt today is all about the pantoum poetry form. As explained by Gina on the dVerse Poetry blog, the pantoum is a series of interwoven quatrains and rhyming couplets. I won’t elaborate further than that (‘cuz I’d just confuse … Continue reading

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Unpremeditated

I’m trying to catch up in the National Poetry Writing Month challenge. Here’s NaPoWriMo Challenge, Day 20: “Write a poem that involves rebellion in some way.” One suggested approach was to write the poem in a way that rebels against … Continue reading

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Take Two

Here’s another take on Days Five and Six of the NaPoWriMo challenge, combined. Same photo, different poem, different experiment with line breaks.    feel this day with the soft touch of your gentle eyes inhale this view; safeguard the scent … Continue reading

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“Rued” Awakening

You wake me in the morning and it’s always too early, as though I had only just found sleep and had just chosen my dream and then – boom! – here you are and there’s the light coming through the … Continue reading

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Metamorphosis ~ a slide show

The Daily Post weekly photo challenge: Story

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Curved Glass Candle

.. in the making:   The Daily Post weekly photo challenge: Curve

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Chiseled Features

Art comes in many media and creative techniques. These three faces were carved from logs with chain saws, with final touches added by chisel. The first two represent lumberjacks. And the third is none other than Sasquatch (Big Foot) himself. … Continue reading

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U Came, U Sawed, U Conquered!

You know about Tiffany and his lamps, and how the lamps are put together with copper foil? Well, before Tiffany came along and foiled everything, there was came. Here’s a little description of came. Came 101, if you will. Came … Continue reading

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Fids Flatten Foil

For me, one of the best things about taking up stained glass has been learning the word “fid.” Scrabble, anyone? Sure, it’s only three letters, but that little word has helped me limp along on the Scrabble board more than … Continue reading

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Experimenting in the 90s

NOTE: Stained glass photos in this post are from scans of  3×5 inch prints taken a loooong time ago by a not very apt photographer (me). I apologize for the quality (or lack thereof) and small size of the detail … Continue reading

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