This past year, Purple Cloud Studio became incorporated and the entity is MP2, Inc. Sounds like I sold out, right? Not so much, I am stepping up my business prowess. It seems that if you are in the Art business, short of owning an upscale gallery, people assume things about you. For example, maybe she will get a job one day, you know how “flighty” Artists are, what is her “real” job, oh, one of those “here today, bored and [...]

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In paging through my body of work, my all time favorite group of team members hail from Odyssey Marine Exploration. A Tampa based operation of shipwreck salvors who work in harmony with the environment while rescuing and preserving artifacts from the sea floor. They are progressive thinkers, gave me lots of Artistic elbow room, held interesting events and are all around fun lovers! What more could I ask for?? They are great! My first project was to create a line [...]

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This year, I had several requests (and I DO accept all kinds of special requests) to create touchstones. I loved the outcome…smooth to the touch and visually brilliant. I stuck with purple glass because, really, purple is the greatest! My customers really loved them. I know my one customer keeps hers under her pillow. There is great comfort in having the idea of keeping someone close to you and that tactile reminder of their presence. The Touchstone can be created [...]

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With open arms, I welcome the new year. Bring it I say! Let’s make cool Art for people who request it. Set designers are welcome here. I’d like to see my work in the background of  movies or a new TV series. I am already visualizing it and it is beautiful!! This is going to be a great year. Consider this the open door of opportunity. The Official Invitation!   A little side note…my fused glass mini-dishes , I found, [...]

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As I sit back in my mental comfy chair, done with holiday shows, done with the schlepping, caput with the sore feet from standing, just done all the way around, I have a lot to be thankful for in this Earthly realm.  As fleeting as I hear it is, some days it seems long and drawn out. And though we don’t know how close to our personal edge we silently creep, be grateful to be able to take another step, [...]

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I have been told that I think too much, but somehow, they may be undershooting the issue. Every day, with great intent, I seek to learn something new. That is a good thing. (right?) If you only go on surface appeal, whether it is fruit bred for eye appeal or people taught to look good, then you tend to miss a lot of cool stuff. Life is flawed and, to coin my own term, “woogly”. But it is the wooglienss [...]

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  As I look at my work, I realize the heart shape is  a theme that never goes out of style. I have a series of metal hearts, my “Used and Abused” pieces, that incorporate some unusual elements into the design. They are textured, 3 dimensional, things dangle from some of them, a great, rustic patina has been applied and all of them are stuffed with hand-made Asian paper (love that part!!). PLUS, they each have a story to tell [...]

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Yes, a tiny homage to my football-lovin’ husband! (he’d be so proud of me, making a football reference!!) But here we are, staring the end of the year right in the face. With an odd start and a slower- than- glacial pace, it finally picked up. Apparently, all I had to do was go find a job outside of Michele-land. (what!!) It did not last, I got busy with art, thankfully. I used to think that my lack of focus [...]

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Being  fully aware that this may be a great visual of my brain, a scan of it will never be required. It is twisted and convoluted with LOTS going on! Not a cobweb to be found. No dust bunnies lurking in the recesses of this mind.  The brain is a perfect recorder of events through multi-sensory input never missing a thing.  Total recall is always an option, but we may just be too lazy to figure out where all of [...]

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No  colorful pic to accompany  post. Words are going to have to suffice.  Girls are taught from the very start to “be nice”. But I have heard that “nice guys finish last”. What mixed messages! I guess you have to decide for yourself, but I will keep to the path of being nice. It is effortless, colorless, odorless but , I find, always a great investment in human return. The payoff is a great lightness of mood and spirit. Plus [...]

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