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Citrus Sky (beaded water globe)

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This juicy little snow globe is a departure from my curious inventions, vagabond airships, steampunk’d machines and endless Escher-esque staircases. It is simply a study in colors and shapes that I liked.

Citrus Sky, custom snow globe, Camryn Forrest Designs, 2013A friend invited me to attend a bead show with her some months ago, and I went because I love to see all the possibilities and how other people make things. The shapes, colors and textures were mesmerizing.

These particular pretty leaf or teardrop-shaped beads came in a multitude of colors, shades, details and delights.

I gathered handfuls from a container of mismatched beads (which I suspect fewer people wanted), letting loose beads spill back through my fingers. I filled a bag and sorted out the colors later to see what worked.

This piece reminds me of a citrus sky at dusk, with lime and moss and touches of aqua, and one bright blood-orange bead for  a “pop of color” (as Stacy and Clinton used to say.)

I painted the wood base with a faux metal technique in the same greenish hues.

There’s no adventure to share, no story here, just an experiment in using different materials and introducing color into my water worlds.  The brother and sister of “Citrus Sky” – respectively called “Fired Up” (reds and oranges) and “Remnants of the Glacier” (soft aquas, silvers and grays) found homes the first time they were displayed. These two sculptures were sold before photos were taken of the final pieces, but I still love looking at the rich colors of the unique beads as art rather than jewelry.

Fired Up custom snow globe, Camryn Forrest Designs, 2013 Remnants of the Glacier, custom snow globe, Camryn Forrest Designs, 2013

Custom beaded miniature sculptures and snow globes, designs and photos are copyright (c) Camryn Forrest Designs, Denver, Colorado 2013.

A Mended Heart – resilient water globe

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Wounded and battered, held together with wire and glue and magic of sorts, supported with hope and dreams, the resilient heart stands tall.

Four-inch glass globe with one of a kind, custom interior snow globe sculpture of glass, wire, copper, faux jewels, wood and chain. Base finish: faux copper patina. When shaken, the Mended Heart shimmers with a dusting of gold sparkles and dust. Design and all images copyright (c) 2013 Camryn Forrest Designs, Denver, Colorado

Too Big for his Bridges – snow globe

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There once was a man too big for his bridges … Yes, yes, I know that’s not how the story goes, but it’s how this one is told.

Too Big for His Bridges, one of a kind snow globe, Camryn Forrest Designs 2013

When I first heard this phrase — or thought I’d mis-heard it, actually — I stopped the teller and said, “don’t you mean, too big for his britches?”

And the storyteller looked at me sadly as one does with an ignorant guest and said firmly “bridges.”

I persisted, of course. “It’s britches, like pants, you know? He was too big for his pants. He got so big, he couldn’t get his britches on right.”

A sigh and a sad little smile were directed toward me with barely contained exasperation, “No, it’s bridges. When you are too big for your bridges, you start thinking yourself superior to everybody and you lose your bridges: your connections. You have no friends, no family, no relationships all because you are too big for your bridges. You can’t get from here to there without bridges, and bridges are all the people who can help you when there’s a challenge ahead.”

Well, I’m here to tell you, that started to make sense. And just because I heard a phrase one way up until this conversation, and then heard it another way for the first time, I suppose it doesn’t automatically make me right.

But it did make an interesting little waterball sculpture.

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“Too Big for His Bridges” one of a kind snow globe/waterglobe, (c) Camryn Forrest Designs, 2013

Waiting for Instructions (Don’t Wait!)

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Guilty.

Sometimes I just sit around waiting for someone to tell me what to do. Waiting for a deadline to approach, or for the next big thing to hover over me like Godzilla before I’m forced to jump into action.

Worse, I see people who appear to be waiting their whole lives for a sign. Going through the motions, exerting the least effort possible to get by.

I don’t want to just “get by.” This is our opportunity to seize the moment, relish the experience, taste the chocolate, breathe deeply and live.

Hey, you out there waiting for instructions: it’s time to SHAKE THINGS UP!  Make something happen. Don’t be a bystander in your own story. Take a chance, make a change.

Or as my brother said once, “Life. Be there.“

Waiting for Instructions custom snow globe, Camryn Forrest Designs 2013

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“Waiting for Instructions”, one of a kind snow globe, mixed media with metal, repurposed items, chain and bead work. (c) 2013 Camryn Forrest Designs, Denver, Colorado