Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Tapestry Cat


Medieval Tapestry ~ "The Noble Lady Spinning Wool" 

Lots of cats on my mind today. Sending healing thoughts to Queen Mab, exited to meet my mother's new foster cat, and finally a visit to Sister Thrift this afternoon to donate and hopefully shop benefitting MetroWest Humane Society.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Sleeping Giant

Had the extreme honor and pleasure to watch my friend Lisa Stock in action yesterday, filming the prequel to her Titania film at Sleeping Giant state park in CT. Not only was the location magical and green (complete with a stone tower and the most breathtaking views) but meeting the crew and witnessing the work and love that goes into her creations was something I will never forget.

Brought the headpiece that was auctioned for Hippolyta to wear, wish I was there to see it on her today! And the three necklaces that will be worn by the Fates, two of which I got to see yesterday and could hardly contain my excitement at how beautiful they were. Grecian goddess.


was lucky enough to see a doe on the drive into the park up close as well.
 no photo...just a magical memory.
just a sample of the beauty witnessed and never forgotten. 




Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Visiting friends

One of my biggest pleasures during the day is taking a break to look out the studio window, or go down a floor to our balcony to view the visitors to our yard. Today one of the wild rabbits stopped by to nibble on the grass for a while.

So very happy that our two new trees (not seen from this view) seem to be doing well, I am determined to make this small green space a private oasis.
...for us and for our visitors!


Monday, May 31, 2010

Long Weekend

Had a lovely Memorial Day weekend..still working here and there to keep up. Also made some time to tend to family graves, do a bit of gardening, and to sit in the yard eating veggie hot dogs. So happy to see the first hummingbird of the season visit our honeysuckle vine.
Three guest dogs kept us and the cats company, I love that I get to spend time with visiting animals through my husband's business: Walk-About Animal Care Services~

Tonight I added a sneak preview of "The White Rose", an iridescent stained glass version of my Tudor Rose necklace to the main page of the site...more details later!

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Busy, Busy.


Working on custom orders from the customer appreciation sale has me a little behind at the moment as they all came in at once! Very happy to have such patient and understanding patrons, wish I was faster at doing what I do.

Working long hours has me appreciating times in my studio I usually don't see. The light in the early morning is so very different than the way everything looks at night.

A heatwave a little early for New England Spring had me setting up the air conditioner for emergency cooling! Gets very hot up here in the attic :)

Re-arranged some frames on the wall, and added a bit more layers to the window draping to hide the ugly machine at night. I love it now, looks like a tiny dramatic stage setting.

an old bookplate in a carved frame

still have to organize my stained glass bits!

a shelf of moss, shell, aged metal and Icons

goodnight!

Friday, May 14, 2010

studio cats may 2010


studio cats may 2010
Originally uploaded by parrish relics
passing by sleeping cats while I work, preparing for Salem's New England Folk Festival tomorrow!

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Arthur Rackham's The Meeting of Oberon and Titania


Ebay Listing
Had a beautiful shoot with Aurora V Photography http://www.auroravphotography.com/ ! This peacock Titania set is currently being auctioned off on Ebay in the name of Titania! The headpiece will be worn by Niketta Scott as Hippolyta in the film, but for our photo shoot was worn by the beautiful model Christy. Please spread the word if you wish!