I used everything you gave me.

Image courtesy of Heidi Claire. Quote by Erma Bombeck.

Glass at The Oklahoma History Center

We are honored to have our glass on display at Distinctly Oklahoma Magazine's 1 year aniversary at the Oklahoma History Center tonight (Aug. 26th, 2008). We had four days to design and come up with a significant number of pieces to display at the event. We designed and fabricated the steel armature and finished last night after midnight. We blew over 30 pieces for the centerpiece along with a number of other things at different tables set up thoughout the event. Here are a few pictures. I should have told Micah to smile. He was a tired puppy. The last 4 days have been long and involved and on top of that, we didn't finish until around 1:00 am last night and he had a catering in Norman this afternoon. (I catered in Seminole at noon today as well) We were both tired puppies! We really enjoyed the evening! The folks at Distinctly Oklahoma are really nice and the reception was "first class". They had catered food from an extraordinary pastry chef from Benvenutis in Norman, extremely good tenderloin and pulled pork sandwiches from "The Ranch" in OKC, and some other places (Those were the only ones I ate at - I got too full too quick!) We can't wait to go eat at Benvenutis soon! That tenderloin sandwich and pulled pork sandwich were awesome! Big thanks to Krista who came and helped Micah and I set up. She has the touch and the knack for knowing how to set up and decorate. Linda came down as well. Only Anna and Kim couldn't make it. We missed them. There were a number of other pictures of more glass but didn't get them posted.

My little boy is now a big kid.

My son started his first day of Kindergarten this Monday. I believe I had more butterflies in my stomach then he did. The first day was a success and we celebrated it with ice cream.

I saved these images only because I have a boy, but they are fab rooms. Enjoy, Heidi

Image courtesy of Traditional Home.

Image courtesy of Architectural Digest.

Today is a gift, that is why it is called the Present.

There is so much knowledge in this quote, yet the person who wrote it is unknown.

Thank you Mr. or Mrs. Unknown. Enjoy, Heidi

Image courtesy of Heidi Claire.

Success.

Image by Heidi Claire, Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Out of sight pantry.

I hate to see labels so one day when I have this fabulous pantry

all the ugly food labels will be behind closed doors. Problem solved. Enjoy, Heidi

Images on this post courtesy of House Beautiful.

The unfolding universe.

Image by Heidi Claire, Quote by Max Ehrmann.

Sweet Suite Serenity

Washington, DC’s premier design house showcasing the talents of 15 of the DC Metro area’s top designers – to benefit Children’s National Medical Center.

This design belongs to Kelley Proxmire who has Kelley Interior Design. I love these colors for a bedroom, very calming. Enjoy, Heidi

The T.V. is on a swing arm that hides behind the curtain.

All images on this post are courtesy of D.C. Design House.

Anthropologie.

Brace yourself, this one is so creative it hurts. All of the images on this post are either window displays of Anthropologie or have been taken from within Anthropologie, but they have been all taken from admirers like myself and posted on Flickr. They always seem to use ordinary things in extraordinary ways. Enjoy, Heidi

This window display is of suspended plastic storage bags filled with soil and plants and other plants that grew from seed or bulb there in the window. I am thinking that it is their spring window.

Ribbons, scraps, yarn?

Winter displays.

Marshmallows falling into mugs for hot chocolate and paper dolie snowflakes.

One of their more simple displays.

This I think is a cascade of coffee filters and cupcake papers. They seem to look like a beachy, shell encrusted, housing thing display?

These are books that are shaped into flowers?

I love most of their clothes.

Very typical Anthropologie bedding.

Very, very cool light display.

Suspended books.

They have great knobs and hooks. I love how they display them on this periodic table chart.
I am thinking that all the white things are marshmallows?

Head in the clouds and feet on the ground.

Quote by Wilferd Peterson, Image by Heidi Claire.

French General.

Karri Meng is a very creative woman. She has a shop in California called French General and has put out two fabulous books, French Inspired Jewelry and A French Inspired Home. I of which own both and they are great. She sells the fabric and notions on her site and in her store and shows you how to make wonderful french inspired crafts and jewelry in her books. The images on this post are from the French General site and they are pages of French Inspired Jewelry. Enjoy, Heidi

Some Great Ideas.

Form and Function or as I like to say it's pretty and I it works.

This image is courtesy of Better Homes and Gardens.

What a great way to recycle old bottles. Martha Stewart has got a new branch on her site called Whole Living and that is where I found this wonderful image

This cup full of roses is a very easy way to make great centerpieces or hostess gifts on each guests plate. Just soak a brick of wet floral foam in water, cut a piece to fit snug in the cup and poke the roses in and your done. This image is courtesy of Country Living.

Curious Sofa

Debbie Dusenberry is good, very good. I really think a lot of her, just look at some of her work in her store The Curious Sofa and you will see why. Enjoy, Heidi Old garden tools make up these entry way arrangements outside the front doors.

Great way to recycle old bottles, jewelry and lace.

Old photos everywhere.

Theses are antique rhinestone shoe buckles made into bracelets. How Fab is that?

Unpolished silver.

Great merchandising.

Great jewelry.
Shells and Chandeliers.

All images on this post are courtesy of the Curious Sofa blog.

A Vase

Our FIRST Chandelier!

Our first stab at a chandelier! This chandelier measures about 40 inches wide by 40 inches tall. We forgot to count the pieces before we put them on but we are guessing the total will be about 100 give or take. We had planned on about 80 or so pieces but at the last minute we decided to redo the metal framework on the substructure of the chandelier. After a bit of "tweaking" it ended up a little bigger and looking somewhat medieval before we attached the blown glass pieces to it. We blew our first one out of clear glass,"just because" and also we may put some fiber optics in it. We have some samples blown of different colors so people can see what the chandelier would like in various colors. The photographs don't really do it justice. You need to see it in person. Even though it's our first one, it's beautiful!
Thanks to Andy and Mara for coming out tonight to take a look. Really looking forward to collaborating with Andy on some things!
Looking forward to going to Tulsa tomorrow catering for Italian Jim's Pizzeria and then stopping by and seeing Sarah Diggdon at her "Tulsa Glassblowing Studio". Sarah came to Italian Jim's Pizzeria a few weeks ago and we really enjoyed visiting with her and feeding her some great pizza!