Planning Your Summer Staycations

Another couple weeks and school will be let out for the summer.  The weather is heating up (in Tucson) and ya’ll are preparing to make a list of places you want to go and things you want to do for fun.  Yes, fun!  It’s supposed to be fun in the summer.   May I make a suggestion?  How about take an art class.  Get the family together and have a family art reunion, where everyone gets to make something.  If you have never done such a thing, you could call it the 1st Annual Family Art Reunion!  Do you have…

Tile Classes Start May 28

I will be offering handmade clay tile class this summer. Officially it’s called a Mosaic class but I am discovering  a lot of people, when they think of “mosaics” they think of little tiny pieces of colored glass tile or broken dishes mortared into a design of some sort.  And yes, that is what it is but there are many forms of mosaics.  It is an art form and it does take concentration when you have a whole mess of brightly colored pieces to pick from. Personally,  I have never liked the idea of breaking glass or china to get the effect I want.  Not…