Here is the latest from Nan's workshop.

This seat is 120 pounds of reinforced concrete.  The glass picture is laid in the bottom of a mold, upside down, and the concrete is poured over it.  After it sets the mold is turned over and removed and the picture is scrubed and cleaned.  It'll be sealed and will eventually live in our carport where I can sit and put on/take off muddy shoes, etc.  Click on the photo to see it better.

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Nan finished this picture of the sunrise and the dock in late July 2003 and I just got the frame finished.  It's going in our guest bath along with another lithograph of a boat.  We've got a nautical theme going strong.  With three boats and another on the way, we should have a room with boat pictures.  The picture doesn't show it well, but there's twisted wire that forms the sailboat rigging and mooring lines.  The manila rope in the frame is countersunk into the wood.  Some of the glass is textured as well to look like wood.  The left picture shows the colors most accurately.

She finished this piece (above) on Sept. 1, 2002.  The bronze base is a Tiffany reproduction I gave her a few years ago.  According to Nan, there's over 500 pieces of glass in the shade.  She wouldn't guess at the number of hours it took to make this shade.  It's a beauty!  Click on the image to see a larger picture, it shows the glass illumination better.

I also added this piece that had not been on the webpage before.

The cast brass base came from a fleamarket sale a few years ago.  It was black with age and dirt.  I rewired it, cleaned and polished, and turned the walnut wood base and added brass feet.

This piece is a dragonfly made from leftover tile from our bath remodeling.  We designed it to go outdoors and it hangs on our deck.  I think it came out great!

 This lamp was a gift for my sister's 50th birthday.  I turned the pieces for the base from Black Walnut and Nan made the shade.

Isn't this heron something? It fits nicely into our double hung windows
and catches the morning light in our guestroom.  

This major project is the Tiffany reproduction lampshade.
The photo doesn't do it justice.  It's on a heavy bronze lampbase
in our living room.  She's working on another with even more pieces.  I hope it doesn't take two years like the last one.

This tabletop is cast concrete with glass inlay.  It's a technique we saw up at a craft show and played around with until it came out well.  We coated the top with several coats of outdoor polyurithane to protect the design from the elements.  We'll bring it in during the winter.  The freezing and thawing will pop the glass out of the concrete if we don't.