Cay Denise

Petroglyphs is a pretty cool place to work on and complete creative projects.  From plates, mugs, piggy banks, tiles to knick-knacks, etc., there are endless ways to express oneself in paint and pick-up one's colorful and functional or fun piece once fired!  The store makes bisque available for customer purchase.  With a purchase, customers get to sit and paint to their heart's delight with Petroglyph's special paints.  All tools, instruction, and the firing are also provided.  Whether for a party, a Dad and daughter or son outing, a date, or even solo work, there is something for everyone.   Over the holidays, I made a plate doing free-hand painting as well as used my own created stencils to draw certain shapes and then paint them in.   To see how this works, below are progress pictures of my recent project.  The top left is a journal sketch of what I was originally thinking, and the top right is the finished piece.  In the second row (l to ...

What are the top 100 things that were good, great, terrific, or awesome in your life in 2024?  It's that time of year to write them down!  I have finished my trek down memory lane for the year and am amazed with all the things I listed.  Here are my top 5 as ideas to get you started. The choice of the word 'joy' as my word to journal about in 2024 like how it infused my perception and experience throughout the year.  The effort was totally worthwhile!     I met up with friends and fellow travelers overseas...a spontaneously-planned trip for me and a great time! I loved the five seasons of 'Fringe' a kind of sci-fi, time travel, mystery TV series that originated on the FOX network some years ago.  What I loved about it was the character development over the seasons as well as the sometimes-nuanced and other times easily detectable differences between the same character from one time to another time.  You have to suspend belief of course, and the so...

I was thrilled today to visit a new-to-me museum that had two extraordinary exhibits!   The New Museum Los Gatos is showing 'Made of Memory', a curated exhibition of five female artists exploring memory from generational and cultural perspectives.  The photo is a piece by Priyanka Rana.  She used sustainably-obtained wood (not felled wood for the project) that she charred with a blowtorch.  In the charred areas, she added what she calls 'memory pods' -- the ones in this made from wound remnants of her mother's saris dipped in polyurethane.  Priyanka's pieces are such a lovely and symbolic representation of her accompanying life and cultural story.   The other exhibition was of the works of Holly Lane in 'Not Enough Time to Love the World and In the Artist's Studio'.  It contains an extraordinary body of work and craft!  The pieces on display have been created over the last 10+ years.  Holly is a painter and a woodworker, and her woodworking i...