Marlis Cornett catalog cover

The holiday season was great! This was my first year to participate in holiday markets and it was exciting and productive. I met so many new and interesting people which lead to some exciting custom design work that I hope to display on this blog soon.

In the meantime I am updating my catalog and busy photographing some new items.

Here is the current catalog cover and please check back to see some updates over the next couple of weeks.

Happy 2012!

Marlis

Peachtree Road Holiday Artist Market

Yesterday morning was the first of two holiday artist markets at the Peachtree Road Farmers Market (St Philips).

It was a lot of fun and great to meet so many people. Hoping to see everyone at the Dec 17th market!

Thanks to all who came out - here is a photo of my table. The personalized ornaments were a hit. There is still time to order yours...turn around is about a week and half currently.

send me a note if you would like to order one.

This weekend is the Clairmont elementary school market place and I'll be there friday night and saturday. I will have the engraved glass and also some new jewelry pieces-come check it out!

Fallen: Pendant light made from recycled glass

The Decatur Gallery recently had a show in October called Fallen and here is my entry which hangs in the gallery window. Pendants have been on my radar for awhile and this was the perfect time to experiment. I used recycled glass from various projects and sanded, painted and carved various pieces to hang from metal rings. I love how this turned out (and sadly it is not easy to photograph...but this image gives a pretty good depiction).

I'm looking forward to experimenting more with this concept.

McG wine glass monograms

Here is a recent special order. I love how the little "c" turned out.

Decatur Market & Gallery

This weekend the Decatur Market and Gallery is having a reception and exhibit titled, "Fallen".

Many artists, myself included, will be bringing special pieces for this theme.

Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011

5-10 pm

check it out if you are in the area!

NEW! engraved glass jewelry

Well, I have been experimenting and having lots of fun creating these glass pendant necklaces. Thinking rings and earring are on tap as well, but boy are these fun!

People ask me all the time how often do I have glass break on me while engraving or what do I do if I make a mistake (every mark is permanent!) Really this only occasionally happens. But sure enough when I recently told someone this, I had several mishaps in a row! Wondering if I could use these vases in some other way, I held onto them. I thought at the very least I could test out a design on a portion or use them somehow. I don't remember exactly how I thought of this, but it must be my love of jewelry, I decided to smash them up (very therapeutic) and try to make necklaces.

Here are some initial experiments and I am loving them! I've been wearing the white painted/carved one for a couple days and may have to keep it! I'll be listing these on etsy and also placing them in the decatur gallery. I am seriously having to hold myself back form making more until I can gauge interest. Let me know what you think!

Each pendant is made form recycled glass and either engraved, painted, carved or a combination of these. Prices are good since this is an experiment for now!

Please visit the above links if you'd like to purchase:)

galax vase • hand engraved

The small galax oval vases were such a hit that I decided to do several on a larger vase. This one is available at the Decatur Market and Gallery along with several other new pieces.