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   >>>>>>> Or alternately, move to Corelle ((OK, so it's a stupid joke -   
   >>>>>>> and, what, for free, you what the *good* jokes?!?!))   
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   >>>>>> Have you ever been to the glass museum in Corning?   
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   >>>>> Yes, a long time ago.  But it wa great.  I like glass a lot so I   
   >>>>> enjoyed it   
   >>>>> more than the rest of the family.  It'd be interesting to go back,   
   >>>>> becasue it was such a long time ago that I don't remember a lot of   
   >>>>> things.  Glass is great, tho', a whole sort of "fire and ice" thing   
   >>>>> going on ;)   
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   >>>> For my birthday today my wife took me to lunch at *The Ordinary* an   
   >>>> upscale restaurant in an 18th century building and then afterwards   
   >>>> we strolled through the Brown County Artists Guild Art Gallery and   
   >>>> they had a glass blowing artisan doing his thing so we watched for a   
   >>>> spell. There's something sort of magical about that stuff, can't   
   >>>> quite put my finger on it.   
   >>>   
   >>> Yup.  To me, it's almost a "fire and ice" sort fo thing, becasue   
   >>> glass is a liquid (even when it's hard, technically, it remains a   
   >>> liquid, in that the molecules remain unaligned - this is why very old   
   >>> glass gets "rippled"; teh glass continues to "flow" towards with   
   >>> gravity, it just does so more slowly than glaciers move).  THe optics   
   >>> of glass are much like water/ice.  THen there is the whole   
   >>> "transformation by fire" thing, the almost magical quality of it, the   
   >>> alchemy if your will - the artisan starts with just sand, and   
   >>> transforms it into whatever the will chooses, taking command of the   
   >>> fluid substance, willing it to capture light in accordance with the   
   >>> creative Vision.   
   >>>   
   >>> It's one of my, oh what would be the word, central   
   >>> mental/symbolic/philosophic/conceptual archetypes I suppose best   
   >>> describes it.  You've read my blitherings  about   
   >>> archetecture/structrue, and music.  Glass is up there with those two,   
   >>> on the other "side" of music from archetecture.  Number Four Biggie   
   >>> is the fluid dynamics of flight.  If I could do Math, that'd be great   
   >>> because they could be connected by that language, but I can't, tho'   
   >>> it'd be neat to watch someone who could do that.  ((I like watching   
   >>> people do math, I just cannot replicate the process to save my   
   >>> life.))   
   >>>   
   >>> I really enjoy watching glassblowing.  Who knows, maybe some day,   
   >>> I;ll take some lessons - that's one of my dreams.   
   >>>   
   >>>> We got hooked on cobalt glass a couple centuries ago and   
   >>>> our house is filled with the stuff in every imaginable shape. I like   
   >>>> all colored glass and would like to have more variety but my wife is   
   >>>> adament about her *blue theme* throughout the house. When the   
   >>>> interior of my office is complete I'll go ahead and get some of the   
   >>>> various colors of artful glass. I REALLY like ruby glass.   
   >>>   
   >>> That's why stained glass can be so much fun to do - painting with   
   >>> light. I tend towards nature-derived themes, so I had planned (and   
   >>> really would like to do, at some point) a panel of a cardinal on a   
   >>> snowy branch. Abstracts can be good, if there is some sort of order   
   >>> to them.  Anyway, I'm startig to drift, the original point was going   
   >>> to be that you might consider some stained glass work.  It could be   
   >>> used, for example, to create a visual transition from the blue theme,   
   >>> to additional colors.   
   >>>   
   >>> Wat sorts of images/pic do you tend towards, abstract, nature-derived   
   >>> (which can be quite abstract), art nouveau, cubism, other...?   
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   >> If you're talking about the stuff we have hanging in the house it is   
   >> mainly landscape type stuff.   
   >> We have a few original watercolors by a local artist, local in Cape   
   >> Coral, FL, that are depictions of actual places.   
   >> One is of the oldest house on Bokeelia Island which is currently a bed   
   >> and breakfast, that I did the historic restoration work on back in the   
   >> early 90's.   
   >> In the painting the house is in prerestoration shape and Charlotte   
   >> Harbor is in the background.   
   >> We also have some large beach scenes too, all of this stuff is in the   
   >> living room, dining, kitchen.   
   >> We have assorted other landscapes throughout the house.   
   >> Oh yeah, my wife recently instaled a series of 4 framed prints on an   
   >> angle in our stairway and all 4 are the same, a wooded landscape   
   >> scene, but done in each of the 4 seasons.   
   >> There is also a matched set of 4 oils by Guy Harvey in the master   
   >> bedroom which are ocean fishes.   
   >> Other than the 4 new ones in the stairway all of the stuff we   
   >> currently have was originally in our FL house.   
   >> Basically my wife wanted to continue her sun-sand-surf theme in this   
   >> house. Because most homes around here are dark woods and textures   
   >> everyone thats been in our house was shocked, alarmed and then   
   >> delighted at how bright and lively it is.   
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   > It had just popped into my mind, trying to figure out what sort of   
   > stained-glass design might transition the blue to the red you mentioned   
   > liking.   
   >   
   > Maybe a close-up of Pindo Palm with Berries - I snapped some photos   
   > yesterday.  The Pindo has nicely-arching fronds, and the berries ar borne   
   > (at leaxst on mine) on spathes that are fairly close to the trunk, so   
   > it's kind of picturesque.  OK, the berries are orange, but there is   
   > always artistic license ;) - a few red ones could be mixed in with a few   
   > orange ones (IIRC, mature ones are mroe red than orange).  Well, it's   
   > just an idea off the top of my head.  Mayeb there is someone near you who   
   > could do somethign for you.  Or, if you ever get back to Florida, there   
   > is, IIRC, the Paradise City arts/crafts festival - the one in   
   > Massachusetts was actually quite good, so I'd imagine that the original   
   > would also be good, and the Southern artisans might do work more in   
   > keeping with your style.   
   >   
   > Just a thought.  I'm assuming you like stained glass, which could be   
   > incorrect.   
   >   
   >> The cobalt glass is everywhere throughout the house as well as my   
   >> wifes enormous collection of Pfatzgraff Yorktowne pottery.   
   >> The one main thing that just does not harmonize is the kitchen   
      
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