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Fairy Tale Boxes

2/21/2015

We love fairy tales, and love using boxes to tell fairy tales in two iconic images on the outside and inside. We've been on a fairy tale jag recently, so here is our newest effort: a "Snow White" box with the wicked Queen's magic mirror on top (surrounded by a woodburned and 22K goldleafed frame), etched with the beginning of those famous words (mirror, mirror on the wall...)... and the rest on the inside, with a woodburning of the witch's hands holding out the poisoned apple. It's walnut on the sides and maple for the top and base, with a touch of red enamel paint on the edge of the lid for that "white as snow, red as blood, black as ebony" look. It's hinged.
Below, an older box of "Rapunzel": Rapunzel with her long golden hair leaning from her balcony on the top, and a silverleafed pair of scissors inside. And next to it, the pieces for a "Red Shoes" box: a woodburned dancing girl with the ribbons of the red shoes twining around her, making her into a marionette. On the inside, the same girl, a skeleton, still dancing in the red shoes.

And below, our newest "Little Red Riding Hood" box, with the wolf inside, and next to it, the pieces for a "Cinderella" box, with the woodburned ragged girl being presented with the golden dress, and a pumpkin nearby. Inside, the glass slipper on a red cushion. Below that, the woodburned pieces for a "Sleeping Beauty" box: on top, the sleeping girl's face surrounded by thorny branches, and inside, the spinning wheel with a hand reaching out to touch the spindle.

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Flowers and Skulls in Glass- So Sweet.

2/16/2015

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Here is a new cast glass box with a pink glass rose sitting in a bird's eye maple top on a sandblasted cast glass box that shifts color between green and soft blue, depending on the light. Leaves were woodburned and painted on the wood top. It has a maple base that allows light up underneath the box. This box is considerably less expensive than most of our cast glass boxes (very little coldworking needs to be done on a sandblasted box). Also below, a cast glass skull that changes color depending on the light, sitting on a bubinga wood box, lined with purple suede- the photo shows it surrounded by cast glass skulls in other colors. And below is another cast glass flower box in the works: sandblasted swirled blue, green, and purple glass. A purple glass lily sits in a maple top with leaves woodburned and painted, and it will also have a maple base. Pretty.

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New Spring Work: Cat and Fish, Medusa, Little Red Riding Hood, Spring Art Fairs

2/1/2015

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Our newest box is also our new favorite: a sandblasted cast glass cat fishing in a koi pond with a curious paw. The pond is mirror etched underneath with fish, which were then goldleafed and painted in the etch. The box is curly cherry. We love how the cat is reflected in the mirror, and how this box combines all of our passions: woodworking, glass casting, and glass etching.

Also new is our rosewood Medusa vase box, with a cast glass Medusa head on a gorgeous handcarved curvy rosewood box. The snakes on this are great- this piece, like the cat box, looks great from every angle. All glass pieces are cast using the lost wax technique- sculpted out of wax, molded in plaster, the wax melted out, and the molds filled with glass and fired in a kiln for days.

And last, our new "story" box, a Little Red Riding Hood with Little Red walking into a dark forest on the lid, and a snarling wolf inside. This is a woodburned and painted maple top and base on a red padauk wood box with beautiful joinery.

And our Spring line-up of art fairs is shaping up: March 27-29 in Houston at Bayou City Art Fair, April 3-5 in Dallas at Deep Ellum Art Festival, April 10-12 in the Woodlands (near Houston for The Woodlands Waterway Art Fair, April 18-19 in Wimberley for The Blue Hole Art Fair. There may be a few more (we're deciding if more will kill our souls), so stay tuned. And come out to see us at a fair this Spring!

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Fairy Tale Boxes

Flowers and Skulls in Glass- So Sweet.

New Spring Work: Cat and Fish, Medusa, Little Red Riding Hood, Spring Art Fairs

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