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Category Archives: Museums and Shows
Tucson Gem, Mineral and Fossil Treasure Hunt – 2024
Sometimes it takes a sharp eye and other times a coy glance to choose our gemstones. Alisha and I just returned from our treasure hunt at the 2024 Tucson Gem Show. We explore dozens of venues with a plan of … Continue reading
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Guo Pei – Couture Fantasy
Almost by accident, I stumbled upon the Guo Pei exhibit at the Legion of Honor. Intent on meeting out of town friends in S.F. I choose the De Young Museum as our meeting point and renewed our membership which is … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Jewelry, Museums and Shows
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Lady X and Lady Agnew of Lochnaw – John Singer Sargent – Benjamin Eakins Calligraphy
In mid September, 2018, Art and I visited New York. We stayed with friends in Hoboken and for two of our three days, commuted into New York to spend time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Several months back, Art … Continue reading
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John Mawurndjul – ‘I am the old and the new’
Alisha and I recently returned from Australia. At Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art we were captivate by the work of aboriginal artist John Mawurndjul one of Arnhem Land’s experimental bark artists. The expansive exhibit features the stringy bark paintings by … Continue reading
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Playing with Dinosaurs at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show
Our annual trip to the Tucson Gem and Mineral show is one Alisha and I look forward to. If we aren’t attacked by dinosaurs, we handpick gemstones and fossils that will inspire our season’s creations. This year, just the two … Continue reading
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Behind the Scenes with Thomas Eakins
Just last week, my husband Art and I traveled back east to attend the Maryland Renaissance Festival. I have had a shop there for over 33 years and attend one weekend each 9 week season. It’s great fun and I love … Continue reading
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Time Travel Back to 1967 – The Summer of Love
The Summer of Love officially took place 50 years ago in San Francisco in 1967. 100,000, mostly young people opposed to the Vietnam War and wanting to make social and environmental change, converged in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, wearing ‘flowers in … Continue reading
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2015 Maker Faire Inspiration
Here are a few photos of this years Maker Faire. We hope to participate next year!
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Marty’s Frogs Hop to Shedd Aquarium
Many of you know that nature is my greatest design inspiration. I have traveled to jungles and rain forests, archipelagos, coral reefs, deserts, plains and mountains. Spotting a heard of elephants or a pride of lions in Africa is exciting but … Continue reading
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Carnivorous Plants & MartyMagic @ SF Conservatory of Flowers
Photo by Wikipedia User NoahElhardt “Beauty is a savage garden.” – Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat Last month we were excited to get an order from the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers in preparation of the opening of their exhibit entitled, “CHOMP: They Came From … Continue reading
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