Memorial Box

O.K., so it's been a while.......spring seems to bring with it a ton of things that need to be done. That's o.k. by me, this is my favorite time of year! I love to go morel hunting and this is the time of year for it. I've been trying to spend as much time in the woods as possible. Morel season only lasts for a few weeks. Gotta get them while you can. For those of you that have never had them before, they're kinda nutty, beefy, not like any other mushroom I've never had. I could spend all day, every day in the woods. All the wildflowers are in full bloom, you can hear the partridge drumming their wings, song birds everywhere and the leeks! mmmmm Walking on the leaves of the leeks creates a very sweet onion smell in the air. It's so yummy. Anyway, here's a few snap shots of some morel mushrooms.






Back to the glass......I finnished two urn boxes for a friend of mine. She has had two pomeranians pass away within the last six months. They were very much loved and part of the family. The urns they came back in were just black plastic. So I made stained glass boxes to put the urns into. There is a picture of the dog embedded between glass on the front, three hooks on the inside of the front for the dog tags or whatever and a hinged lid. She picked out a blue, green, red swirled glass for Jinx and a red and white swirled glass for Sassy. We picked out a specific section on the glass for the bottom of the front. The pattern on the blue glass looked like a flower. The pattern on the red,white glass a heart. I added a red heart cut out with wire detail to the front also. I think they turned out really well.











I hope it stops raining soon. I would love to go back out in the woods. But as long as it's still yucky outside I'll have more time to work on foiling pieces for the sun I want to make. The same style as the trees. I have picked out a bunch of reds, oranges and yellows. I can't wait to see what it will look like.