Join us August 7th for RVA First Friday Art Walk

We will be at the  Greenbriar Cafe (1211 West Main) for the RVA First Friday art walk. Chef Julius is cooking up a special menu, there will  live music by the Cocktail Twins and we are cooking up a sampler of our glass!

Sabbath Keeping

~ the Cove valley ~

"It was You who set all the boundaries of the earth;

You made both summer and winter."

~ Psalm 74:17 ~

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast;

Man never Is, but always To be blest:

The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,

Rests and expatiates in a life to come."

~ Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Epistle I, 1722 ~

"She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails." ~ Elizabeth Edwards ~

"Live in the sunshine

Swim the sea

Drink the wild air."

~ Emerson ~

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart , and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." ~ unknown ~

"Let us love winter for it is the spring of genius." ~ Pietro Aretino ~

"No winter lasts forever, no spring skips its turn."  ~ Hal Borland ~

"One kind word can warm three winter months." ~ proverb ~

"Dear Winter: 

I'm breaking up with you. 

It's time to see other seasons."

"What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel."
~ John Burroughs, The Snow-Walkers, 1866 ~

"Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition." ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~

"Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories." 

~ An Affair To Remember ~

"Let there be a cottage... a real cottage... a white cottage, embowered with flowering shrubs, so chosen as to unfold a succession of flowers upon the walls, and clustering round the windows through all the months of spring, summer, and autumn - beginning, in fact, with May roses, and ending with jasmine. Let it, however, not be spring, nor summer, nor autumn - but winter, in his sternest shape. This is a most important point in the science of happiness. And I am surprised to see people overlook it, and think it matter of congratulation that winter is going; of, if coming, if not like to be a severe one. On the contrary, I put up a petition annually, for as much snow, hail, frost, or storm, of one kind or other, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely every body is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a winter fire-side: candles at four o'clock, warm hearth-rugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies on the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audible without..."
~ Thomas De Quincey ~

"I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again." ~ Lewis Carroll ~

"My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever." ~ George R. R. Martin ~

"A lot of people like snow.

I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."

~ Carl Reiner ~

"The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter." 

~ Benjamin Alire Saenz ~ 

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show." ~ Andrew Wyeth ~

"Drive my dead thoughts over the universe

   Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!

  And, by the incantation of this verse,

Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth

  Ashes and sparks, my words among manking!

  Be through my lips to unawakened earth

The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind,

   If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~ 

"Pray that your flight will not take place in winter

or on the Sabbath." 

~ Matthew 24:20 ~

Prayer Keeping ~ Donna ~ GJ & Bill ~ Noreen ~ Quinn ~ Sandra ~ 

Northern VA Christmas Market Nov 14-16 at Dulles Expo Center

Gerald before the show, Friday evening.

Hope to see some of you next weekend

Booth 183/184.5

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Nov 7 Richmond Country Club Holiday Gift Bazaar, open to public

Gerald will be at the Richmond Country Club (12950 Patterson Avenue)

 Friday, Nov 7,  6-9pm.

The show is open to the public.

10"x 10"

 We are busy making a lot of holiday glass in all sizes.

In the kiln, now.

Seattle LYS - OMG

All those little orange arrows represent yarn shops near where we're going! Can you believe it?

I'm going to Seattle!

I am so excited! Chris and I are going to Seattle in November to visit with DNS (dear Navy son) & NW (new wife) Jean. I am researching what fibery trouble I can get into while there and find that I may reach new heights (or depths) of wantonness. Check out this list of local shops JUST in the Seattle area - we Central Virginians can't even touch this many shops in one day without an airplane or helocopter! I've been talking with some Ravelry folks who live in that area and all of them have said - oh, come see us on our knit night! Frankly, I don't think I'd see much of Chris, DNS or DIL if left to my own devices :P So, I will hopefully keep you posted - but I have a request of you -- if you know of somewhere or someone to visit when I'm there, please do let me know - there is so much to see and do and we want to be as busy as our poor aging bodies will let us! LOL OH AND DON'T FORGET - the FFF (Fal Fiber Festival) is this week-end at James Madison's Montpelier - a link is in the right sidebar! Cat

New glass for upcoming show Oct 12 - 13 Waynesboro

 10" curve 

Nice to put in front of a candle, pretty on a mantle

Glass doodles

Serendipity Refined: White Spray Painted Metal Patio Furniture and Tea in My Garden

Serendipity Refined: White Spray Painted Metal Patio Furniture and Tea in My Garden

Triptych, plates, candy dish, swirly bowl

Custom triptych will hang in transom window - will update picture when it is installed.

Virginia Beach Spring Craft Market March 15 - 17

I'm packing up glass for this weekends spring market at Virginia Beach. We will be in booth 461 - look for our Art In Glass by TG Designs Banner. Visit tgdesignsglass.blogspot.com for more information on our upcoming schedule.

Here are a few of the pieces that are not already packed up.

 10 3/4" Bowl - this makes a lovely fruit bowl

Nancy's Green Branch Bowl 

Gerald's  Blue Branch Bowl - 

 11.5" Red Plate

10.5" Red Sprial plate

Ready to be packed up 

8.5" square curved plate, Nancy made this one

VA Beach Christmas Market this weekend - booth 332

Virginia Beach Christmas Market Nov 23 - 25.
Hope to see you those of you in the area at the Virginia Beach Convention center this weekend.

I took a quick pic before packing this up. It is 11.5" diameter

Virginia Beach Christmas Market... Art In Glass by TG Designs

Gerald and I  will be at the Virginia Beach Christmas market Thanksgiving weekend. It is held at the Virginia Beach Convention center. November 23-26. Friday and Saturday 10-6 Sunday 10-5. Come by and see our glass.

Here are pictures of our booth (before we opened) last week at the Northern VA Christmas Market at the Dulles Expo center.

Where in Virginia is Colonial Heights?

Well, we've moved - yes, again! But hopefully this is the last time for a long, long time!  I am including a subscribe button below, because if you live in Colonial Heights, or an adjacent area, you know we need to build some local relationships! 

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Colonial Heights has few major crimes but does have an inordinate number of thefts, vandalisms and the like. Increased awareness will benefit everyone : )

Getting ready for Mother's Day Festival

Gerald and I will be back in the Downtown Historic District of Portmouth on May 12 & 13 for the Gosport Art Festival. Our booth is H-118. Mention this post for a discount.

8.5x8.5 curved dish

Pics from the Virginia Beach Show

I'm in PT twice a week for a pinched sciatic nerve, so sitting is painful. I can still make glass because I arely work sitting down. Have knit very little since I do sit to knit but am working on my Trinity Stitch jacket, which is worked in panels.

Update and updates needed

Really looking forward to being more moblie and more verbal in the New Year.

I have been knitting....Lots and lots of lace starts and dozens of hats. Really working on my felted hats and purses and embellishment patterns, thanks to the grands and greats...If one gets something the others can't be left out.

Bryer is still with me almost every day. The little redhead spitfire is now 3. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays I am also watching 3 year old Christian and his brother Taylor in Glen Allen.

My three day a week PT is now down to one day and I am feeling so much better. Gotta keep up the exercises. If anyone one wants to come out to the farm and walk, I'd love to have some companions. We could walk, lunch and knit...Or visa versa...

Back to list duties. We'd like all of you to update your information and if you know of happenings like nearby fiber festivals or happenings we need that information updated also.

It seems we have some addresses on the list that are no longer active or valid. It would be helpful to us, since membership is limited, if you could let us know if you are still interested in being a member of this group....If you have friends that would like to be members please don't hesitate to e-mail Cathy or me....Please drop in and say hello and let us know what you are doing these days....Remember this is your blog spot too. Let's all use it.

Christmas Gifts from Art In Glass

Blues to fushias

Shades of Gold

Greens & Aquas

Little dishes, 3.5"

Big (cookie) dishes, 8.5 square with gentle curve

Medium sizes

Berries and Ribbon

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Dulles Christmas Show this weekend

We will be at the Northern VA Christmas Show at the Dulles Expo Center this weekend November 11 - 13. Our booth number is 454.5 - 455.5. Look for our new signs Art In Glass ....by TG Designs

Waynesboro Fall Festival this weekend

Come see us in Booth #30 on Saturday and Sunday at the festival. Here are some pictures of what will be in our booth.