in beautiful, bucolic Bedford Village, NY! I'm doing a very nice show with 17 other swell vendors in a charming old building, Bedford Historical Hall. If you're in the area, please stop by and get a jump start on your holiday shopping. There's a little bit of everything...jewelry, home accessories, children's clothing, leather bags, fleecewear, potted rosemary topiaries, and of course, the Great Wall of Fruit! They gave me a wonderful spot...I don't think I've ever had this much room at a show, and naturally I have filled it with glitter!
Here are a few shots of setting up today.
This shot above is my pal, Betsy Lowe, who sells fleece hats, vests, mittens, scarves and just about anything else she can cobble out of fleece. She comes all the way down from the Boston area and had a few more serious hours of setting up to do. It's a heck of a lot of work to set up these shows...
This shot above is my pal, Betsy Lowe, who sells fleece hats, vests, mittens, scarves and just about anything else she can cobble out of fleece. She comes all the way down from the Boston area and had a few more serious hours of setting up to do. It's a heck of a lot of work to set up these shows...
And...voila! The Great Wall of Fruit!!! I"m not kidding...there's a full 15 feet of frutiness there...
Do you think I can cram any MORE glittergoods into my area??? I sure don't want to bring all this stuff back to the studio...gotta make some moola and send this stuff home with other people!It's 12:21 in the morning and I have to catch a few zzzs so I can have the strength to throw around some glitter tomorrow. Hey, wait a minute!...It IS tomorrow already...zzz...zzz
xoxo
Laur...zzzz.....
This baby is almost 4 feet tall, and is perfect for small ornaments, treat cones, or in this case, lots of glittered bumblebees and dragonflies! 
I really can't wait for this workshop. Working with copper wire is such fun...We'll dust our urns with a bit of vintage silver glass glitter, and I'll show you how to shape ordinary 7 stranded electrical grounding wire into a gorgeous tree trunk, roots and branches. This is the Holiday version of the one I did on the Martha Show for Halloween (10/15/07), except this one will be a bit bigger. We'll be using 3 foot lengths of wire, so it will be wider...and you can shape the branches any way you want...squiggly like mine, or angular or compressed or stretched out...it's your tree, to shape as you wish. ( If you have a pair of double round nosed pliers, please bring them. ) Also, please wear work clothes as we will be mixing and pouring plaster to set the roots securely into the base. We'll pop some sheet moss over the plaster, shape the roots and branches and voila!....you will have a spectacular tree that you can use year after year, season after season. (By the way, there is absolutely NO reason why you can't use this puppy at Eastertime, for hanging eggs and bunny ornaments...or hearts for V-Day, for that matter!)
We hammered wire into hooks....
and of course, we glittered faux pears and papier-mache walnut boxes from Germany...and made some gorgeous glittery goodies!
And I made some wonderful new friends.
and a nifty papier-mache walnut box, perfect to hide a handful of chocolate inside!!! I know, I know, I need to shoot a picture of the walnlut box...just haven't had time! T'will be fun, I guarantee, and you WILL get glitter on your face!
You know, you can also put Cristmas ornaments on those trees...or mini glittered dreidels or Easter eggs or hearts for Valentine's day. I am an "equal-opportunity" glitter-er! And the glitter color on the base can be any color you want to fit the holiday! Untreated over time, the copper wire will develop a nice patina..It will actually oxidize to a brownish color but you can polish it if you want to keep it shiney and even spray it with Krylon sealer to keep it shiney, or you can spray paint it any color you'd like with Rustoleum paint. And, yes, you can also glitter the branches...it takes a while, but it gives it an entirely different look.
