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Glassy Eyed Sue's
Welcome to Glassy Eyed Sue's Lampworked Bead Website!
Early lampworking was done in the flame of an oil lamp, with the artist blowing air into the flame through a pipe. Most artists today use torches that burn either propane or natural gas for the fuel gas, with either air or pure oxygen as the oxidizer. It was not until the late 1960s that lampwork became recognized as a serious art form by German born lampwork glass artist Hans Godo Frabel. Frabel utilized his scientific glassblowing training to create relatively large pieces of lampwork glass art in borosilicate. |
|  Glassy Eyed Sue's Studio is located deep in the heart of the Pacific Northwest forest near the base of Mt. St. Helens. Her inspiration is drawn from the raw beauty and peaceful tranquility that inhabits this high alpine paradise. One of my favorite neighborhood haunts is the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, home to thousands of birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and yes, even turtles! Here are a couple of my favorite reptiles....
Myrtle the Turtle (left) has dressed up in her finest floral regalia getting ready for a date with her gentlemanly turtle-friend, Yurtle. Yurtle the Turtle (right) has donned his tophat for an evening on the town with the very lovely Myrtle. Yurtle is first and foremost a gentle-turtle!
Uh oh.... looks like little sister, Tanya Turtle (below) has eyes for Yurtle as well!!! Aren't little sisters a pain???
The Refuge is also home to various frogs from the tiny tree frog to the Grand-daddy of amphibians, the bullfrog.
His little brother, Marvin Frog is more interested in mosquito pie and fly soup! He spends most of his evenings cruisin' the lily pads for cute little "frogettes"!!!
And finally their younger cousin Roger "Red-Butt" Frog seems content to just hang around the lilypad all day and watch Dr. Phil and Judge Judy. Such a waste....
One other resident of the Refuge is the infamous White Rabbit which got Alice completely lost when she tried desperately to catch him, when she should have been home doing her homework!! Lesson learned, I hope.... He looks innocent enough, don't you think?
One of my favorite places in the whole world is the Oregon Coast. It is in my opinion the most beautiful stretch of un-developed coastland in the world. By law, the entire Oregon Coast belongs to the people. You can own beachfront property, but the beaches and shoreline belong to everyone.
This is a Zebra Conch Shell. As a little girl, I remember putting conch shells up to my ear to hear the roar of the ocean inside...
I think Conch Shells are my favorite sea shore treasure....
There really is no more beautiful place to live, work and play than the Pacific Northwest. It's hard not to be inspired by the beauty of God's handiwork that surrounds us.
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Freddy the Racing Frog (right) can be found every Saturday watching his NASCAR heros, Greg Biffel and Denny Hamlin put the pedal to the metal, or lily pad as the case may be....
