We're proud to announce that some of our boxes will be on display in the Austin ABIA airport starting in February; our airport is very good about supporting local artists, and we're thrilled to have been selected for exhibition.

Also, here is a really pretty new box: the top is maple, with woodburned ravens and a 22K goldleafed skull. I surrounded them with brass coils, and set the whole top in deep epoxy. The top and base are rimmed in dark wenge, and the sides are ziricote with maple biscuit joints. It has a brass lock and ornate brass key, and the inside bottom is lined with red suede. It's our first locking box, and we love it. The ziricote is as smooth as glass. Below is a picture of the inside.
Also below are new box tops and bases. First, the pieces for our new glass-topped box: birds etched in a circle over a base painted like a sunset, with a 22K goldleafed sun. The epoxy paint is so glossy that the birds are reflected in it. This will have curly maple sides and top frame.

We just finished the glass and rosewood rose box- it took a bloody week, but it's done, and it's beautiful. The box is made of rosewood with wenge back legs and accents. The inside back is woodburned maple painted with iridescent paint and then lacquered- a hummingbird. Small magnets keep the hinged door from swinging open, and you open it with the silver rose pull. Surrounding it is an etched and carved glass rose. It's now for sale at the top of our "wood and glass boxes" page. Don't mind if I toot our own horn, but it's really fabulous- very detailed, and every side is beautiful. It put me in the mood for more hummingbirds. Also, below, a woodburning of a pair of herons in snow for the outside of a box, and a crow flying in the summer sun for the inside base of a "duality" box which also satisfies my current bird fervor: white bird/black bird, winter/summer, light/dark.

Now I'm off to Manhattan for my holiday to attend opera (Tosca), theater (Betrayal with Daniel Craig), have Chistmas dinner at the Russian Tea Room, shop at Mood Fabric, and walk in Central Park. Suck it, everybody stuck elsewhere for Christmas!

I'm in an very bird mood recently, and it's been cheering me to woodburn ravens- lots and lots of ravens. Beside and below are two new efforts: A goldleafed skull surrounded by ravens and brass coils, set in epoxy. And a goldleafed angel surrounded by ravens. I think these will probably become boxes- I love the goldleaf combined with the black woodburned ravens.

Also below, a new box in the works- rosewood with a back of maple with a woodburned and painted hummingbird on it to surprise you when you open it. It will be surrounded by an etched and carved glass surround of a rose and leaves on a long, winding stem. The picture is of the box being clamped together, along with the glass rose surround. It will be just beautiful- with a rosewood door on the front with a silver rose pull to open it.

New boxes are coming- here is a Medusa top, and ain't she scary? This is woodburned and painted maple. The inside base will be a white Pegasus on a black background, since Pegasus sprung from the blood of Medusa after Perseus cut off her head. The snakes on this, on the black background, turned out very well.

And below- a new Little Red Riding Hood Box (woodburned and painted maple top and base, ipe sides), with a wolf inside, and a new glass-topped box: koi etched swimming under lily pads and a water lily. The box is swirly mahogany, and the inside base is lacquered blue and green in watery swirls. It will be lovely. The pic is of the top being clamped together.

Holiday cheer to all who love Greek mythology, fairy tales which seriously threaten girls' lives in weird psychosexual ways, and tranquil pools of swimming fish.