Updates from Sequential Glass Art Mosiac & Rustic Rosemaling
June 19, 2025
I had so much fun at my favorite art show this past weekend and have my other favorite one this weekend! Gammel Dag in Peterson, MN is a celebration of all things Norwegian folk craft and food! Yay Summer! You betcha!
June 12, 2025
The theme of this week is managing expectations. New paint job on the garage bright blue? Expectation exceeded. Selling a rare antique on Sotheby's for less than expected, expectations trampled. New tree planted by the city in the front yard without notice, expectations surpassed! I'm taking all of these life lessons into this weekend where I'm going to try to sling my wears at Lanesboro Art in the Park. Happy Father's Day Dads and see y'all there!
June 5, 2025
No one likes to see how the sausage is made but it sure is delicious the next day!
May 22, 2025
With the art show seasoning rearing it's craft paper and twine head it’s time to finally have a productive woodworking day making canvases for rosemales, frames for finished pieces and fun little trinkets with secrets and surprises. Now for an oil change in the Astro Van and a map to the next town park to get me some mini donuts. BUY ART OUTSIDE!
May 15, 2025
In true Minnesota fashion the first art show of my season it's going to be 59 degrees and windy, at least there's no snow in the forecast! Also in true Minnesotan fashion I'm complaining about the weather before it happens. It's Syttende Mai, the 17th of May, Norwegian Independence Day in Spring Grove which is the first Norwegian settlement in Minnesota which is saying a lot! It's so fun to watch the little vikings pummel each other with wooden swords and the heritage dancers skip and twirl through the street. And mini donuts. So many mini donuts!
May 1, 2025
I've been having fun making little companion pieces as I make the larger house numbers and transom windows and memorial pieces! These window sitters are just the perfect pop of color for any decor. Framed in reclaimed wood they're low impact on the environment with high impact in style!
April 24, 2025
One of my favorite things about making these flower pieces is time spent researching the different flowers from whatever region they're going to and learning about the homes and families they'll be part of. This is my fourth piece to Costa Rica and I'm so happy that my art will hang at Grandpa's Farm. I hope he approves!
April 17, 2025
Sometime when you make flowers for a living (in glass) and all you do is try desperately to grow them outside during the two months of windy summer but realize that the big honking blooms you get at a flower store are mutants and only grow under mystical circumstances, the only thing you can do to get close to them is to get a part time gig at the local flower factory. So I did! Happy summer of making bows and watering monstera and loosing my sense of smell!
April 10, 2025
Lookin' a little more coelacanth than a trout so I thought it'd be a fitting tribute to the newly un-extincted Dire wolf and all the wacky animals from our past that might be making a come back, unlike the coelacanth that's been here for years (thanks LL Cool J). My new favorite is the woolly mammoth mice because why not. At this point, we're all just John Hammond bumbling around eating melted ice cream wondering if we should have just because we could. Silly times. Buy Art and feel better about the Dodo Ostriches that'll be screaming down the street soon.
April 3, 2025
As an avid user of antiques I find a lot of inspiration and utility in things from the past. Pieces that have an innocence and honesty fits my world view and thereby my artwork. It doesn't need to show deep meaning or convey complex theories about societal ills or throw wrenches into the machinery of whatever system needs to be broken at the moment. It just needs to be pretty and have the ability to draw out deeper feelings if the viewer wants to go there. And sometimes you need a visual on what a rabbit and a pig smooshed together looks like.
March 27, 2025
My palette, my bane, my inspiration, so tempted to make a hacky rhyme right here but I must refrain. Oh goodness, I can’t help with these silly jokes. Longer days bring major decisions, which plants do I want to inspire and frustrate me for the next six optimistic months. Do I go the easy route and just throw a handful of zinnia blooms in there. Or do nurse a bunch of fancy pants seedlings into toddlerhood just to have the deer eat them? Such a rewarding hobby, such a beautiful sorrow. It’s important and has meaning and is silly and fleeting.
March 20, 2025
It can’t all be flowers and house numbers all the time! I’m having fun gearing up for art show season, fingers crossed I get into the new ones I applied to. I’ve also been exploring different art galleries and stores all over the region to see what’s what, I gotta poke my head up once and awhile! I was going to spend the day making wood frames from all the wood we’ve been hoarding but the outsides had a different idea so I spent it inside listening to the squirrel in the attic. Another wonderful day in SE Minnesota!
March 13, 2025
So I spent a good amount of February immersed in making this piece for a special anniversary. I'm always so honored to be a part of special occasions be they happy or sad. This month I'm making a birthday celebration and morning the loss of a special pet. I wonder what next month holds?
March 6, 2025
I'm getting excited, as I'm sure we all are, for all the yardwork we're about to do in light of the annually annoying Spring Snow. So I'm starting a series to honor the Gods of Gracious Gardening in hope they bestow upon us all a tolerable and pleasant Summer. May the Tendrils of Creeping Charlie be few and uninspired. May the Dandelions be listless and sparse. And may the roots of the crap that grows between the cracks of the sidewalk be shallow and easily kicked out. Peas be with you.
February 27, 2025
I was going to make a wonderful, poetic, insightful, stare into middle space while slowly shaking your head, revelatory post but then it ended up like an episode of Deep Thoughts so I had some snack mix and cup of coffee and realized I got stuff to do. Coming soon, new stuff! I’m working on little table top stand mosaics and I must admit, they’re going to be rad.
February 20, 2025
This is always a tough time of the year because I'm ramping up my small piece production in anticipation of the summer art fair season. They're so adorable I can't even stand living with them so I end up putting them online for sale! I'm always open for custom work too, not everything needs to be a house number, hardy har. As always, thanks for looking
February 13, 2025
In the glass manufacturing world pinks, reds, yellows and oranges are called the 'hot' colors and are typically more expensive to produce based on the precious metals needed for their creation. Ruby red glass has gold in it so some might say that I'm a financial genius for hoarding red glass. I wouldn't say that, but some might.....ha!
February 6, 2025
Instead of blithering on about whatever pops in my head I'm guessing I should share some shop/work/sales updates! I'm still working through my order list and am about four months out with orders which is perfect for Spring so if you're thinking of getting a house number for the big Spring spruce up when you can put your cushions back on the chairs and plant a flower or two in a planter now's the time to for us to start talking! I promise next week will be more blithering! Thanks so much!
January 30, 2025
After spending the interminable early '20's watching lathe turning videos for mental health and suspense I finally got to try it! Whoa boy! It was so much easier than my catastrophic mind lead me to believe! And in the true fashion of everything, people that know what they're doing showing you how to do something make it look soooooo easy. So it's an activity that's easy to be bad at. And sometimes that's all I can ask for. More to come!
January 23, 2025
“This decoration, which appeals both to the eye and to the fancy ...It seeks its inspiration in the very heart of life - in nature as seen through the eyes of the peasant, who is free from all the conventionalities of civilisation, and whose eye is unspoilt by the constant contemplation of the ugliness which is so unsparingly distributed around us." Day-umn Netta Peacock from 1905! This is a quote from an article extoling the virtue of peasant folk art and I agree with this 120 year old opinion, Sh*ts ugly out there, Buy Art!
January 16, 2025
I've been trying so hard to capture the maudlin nostalgia of a winter's dusk drive home through the fields. The fragile golds and browns fade into mud and the delicate silver clots into the grey of neglected sweat socks at the back of a closet. Fleeting like the fond memories of childhood winter, the reality is just as empty as my windshield wiper fluid reservoir. I really need to stop listening to Werner Herzog as I work.
January 8, 2025
Keeping with my Maximalist rules of life and to help cope with the commercialization of Christmas I went down a rabbit hole of the most expensive painting ever sold, Salvator Mundi for $450,312,500, which is ironically of Jesus Christ. I then slipped into a luxurious bath of irony and soaked in the delicious sardonism and had a cookie with Santa Claus. If you need a good Christmas time story I highly recommend looking into Salvator Mundi, it's a fantastic story.
December 11, 2024
I was going to post my latest pet portrait and then remembered that it's a Christmas present and I don't want to Scrooge up a Christmas surprise! Needless to say it's real cute! So here's a past one that is also very cute, as all pets are. That's why I love making Custom Pet Portraits!
December 4, 2024
There's something so homey and cozy about Rosemaling that it just innately has Christmas vibes. Waking up to snow the other morning made it mandatory that I make some hot cocoa, put on warm socks and paint a million rosemales and then run around in the snow in just my socks because I had such a sugar rush from the cocoa and now I have a cold. Christmas is cancelled.
November 27, 2024
I'm so thankful for all my wonderful customers that have continually surprised and amazed me with special requests through out the years! From family portraits to the special pets and meaningful symbols I've had so much fun being a part of people's lives for a short time and made them something that hopefully lasts years and years. This piece is the closest to a Turkey I've made, thanks Mr. T! Glad you're not on the table this year!
November 20, 2024
These rosemaling pieces were born out of me moving back to my roots to a predominantly Norwegian community in SE MN. The history and community has inspired me to gather wood pieces from construction projects of vintage houses and local woodworker friends and to Rosemale them! I hope these small pieces make the perfect addition to your decor with history, memories and fun!
October 30, 2024
Years ago my husband and I bought a dilapidated wooden Quonset hut to turn it into our fishing shack get away (which is now our forever get away!) When we were reroofing it the beautiful tortured pine boards came up with the tar and shingles and we were forced to save them. We ended up with a bunch of scrip scraps we couldn't bare to part with. I decided I needed to learn Rosemaling and used them as my practice palettes. Luckily we had one billion of them so I've got a bunch extra to sell! (I've branched out to different wood species too) Coming Soon!
October 23, 2024
Adding a little bee, beetle or dragonfly turns a mosaic of flowers into a story. Throw in a hummingbird or goldfinch and its a novel. Conflict is nature and without it it's just a pretty picture, which is okay too. Sometimes pretty is just enough.
October 16, 2024
When we moved to the country I didn't expect to become so interested and immersed in woodworking until my husband tore down a corn crib and our backyard was suddenly full of 100 year oak and pine that needed new life! I've been finding that the oak really likes to be frames for mosaics so I've been developing a new way to frame them that makes them look good from both sides and is suitable to hang in windows or sit on window sills!
October 9, 2024
One of the many things I love about stained glass mosaic is trying to replicate the bonkerness of nature with the limitations of glass. With painting and drawing you can just paint or draw it. With stained glass you're constrained by the glass and trying to coax it to break the right way or get small enough to make a branch or leaf or sky is exhilarating when it works and maddening when it flies across the room after breaking the not right way. It's a never ending quest for sure.
October 2, 2024
I'm excited that Fall is here and I'm ready to get back in the studio after a busy summer art fair season! I've gathered lots of new ideas and inspirations for small window sitter wood framed mosaics and suncatchers. Stay tuned for new products all winter!