Enchantment
8" x 8" x 8"

The basket is woven around a splendid Turquoise cabachon.

The pine needles came from a Guatemalan tree I had planted in my yard a few years ago.

(roll your mouse over the vessel to view the center)

The center stone is a Picasso Jasper, one of my favorite stones. The unique colorations always suggest some type of ethereal scene or landscape.

As I wove and intertwined the brown coils it evoked old memories of ballroom dancing and the movements of coming together, then parting.

 
The Dance
11" x 10" x 2.5"

 

Moon Goddess
12" x 13" x 2"

This is my second "Moon Goddess" vessel. I used dyed pine needles, Chinese Turquoise (which always looks like a watercolor painting) and glass beads.

Imagine that the dark needles represent the night sky, the blue Czech beads are twinkling stars, and the center stone is a waning Gibbous moon.

 

 
This basket was woven with fragrant sweetgrass grown by a friend, and African trading beads that I found on a scavenging hunt at the annual rock show in Quartzsite, Arizona.
Sweetgrass Basket
8" x 8" x 2.5"
The center stone is a Kinite from Russia. Its colors reminded me of sunlight on the sea, so I wove this vessel like cresting waves with gold metallic beads simulating the glistening sunlight on water.
Ocean Storm
8" x 8" x 4"
 
The center is a tapestry woven on a miniature loom warped inside a metal ring. I really enoy weaving miniature tapestries, but they add about 20-100 hours more of weaving time depending on the complexity of the image!
 
One World
10" x 10" x 3"
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