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I've always had a fascination with glass. A glass is an amorphous solid that transforms into a liquid upon heating. The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, made of about 75% silica (SiO
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I received an email recently from the big arts and craft chain, Michael's , that May is National Scrapbook Month. I started thinking, "Why is that?" Who made this declaration anyway? Not only that, but May 1st is National Scrapbook Day.
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Wednesday night was $.31 Scoop Night at Baskin Robbins. If you missed it you missed a wonderful thing. Most of Georgetown was lined up out the door and down the sidewalk at the ice cream parlor on Williams Drive. We apparently all had the same revelatory
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The term "public art" refers to works of art in any media that have been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all. Public art is usually exhibited
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For something that started as an early American pastime, quilting has become more than a social or utilitarian event. Quilts are now so intricate and imaginatively done that they approach an art form. Quilting was very popular, especially in the Midwest,
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Before there were mp3's, CD's, cassettes and eight-track tapes, there were big disks of vinyl called records. Part of the thrill of the record was the packaging itself, the album cover. The album cover included the artwork (that was often elaborately
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Have you ever wondered how florists do what they do with flowers? Informal arrangements of wildflowers or garden roses are nice but everyone loves getting something that could actually be described as "an arrangement". There are some tricks
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"The Country Soaper", Elin Criswell, is making a soapmaking presentation this Monday, Feb. 28th. There is a craft to making soap although you can easily buy a kit at craft stores for making simple glycerin soaps. But this is different; this
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During the month of February, the Austin chapter of the Texas Wax Encaustic Arts will display their work in the second floor galleries of the Georgetown Public Library. This sounds fascinating, especially after I found out that encaustic painting is the
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Stained glass has a thousand-year history that includes being almost exclusively seen in the windows of churches or other significant buildings. There is something so mesmerizing about light shining through colored pieces of glass in that the stained
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I was walking around the downtown Georgetown square not too long ago, sniffing around light posts and fire hydrants as I have done many times. But I just noticed some remarkable utilitarian creations that I had easily overlooked many times before. At
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Yesterday, I wrote about knitting and today my topic is printmaking. Why, you may ask, the obsession with handcrafts? Well, in the psychology world I think it is fairly well understood that one covets most what one doesn't have. Being a canine, I
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Knitting and crochet are two things that I have some difficulty mastering. I very much like the idea of being able to make something knitted or crocheted, something handmade, made with love. Therein lies the problem; I have paws, not hands, and simply
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It has been said that a girl can never have too much jewelry or too many pairs of shoes. Well, even though I am a canine female, let it be known that the jewelry part is so true. I can completely understand the human thinking though in regards to shoes;
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American Gothic (1930) was painted by Grant Wood. I have always been fascinated by the expressions of the two people in this painting. It is enigmatic much like DaVinci's Mona Lisa. The painting is instantly recognizable for the stoic expressions
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