Lucy Lu........Our new love.....

A new baby in the house has keep us very busy.

Meet Lucy Lu........

We are so in love with this little girl.

Just look at that little face.So sweet!

More photos and Lucys story to come......She has brought much joy to our lives.

Where have you been young lady!

Well, I havent been here in quite sometime.I think this is the longest down time we have had since we started blogging.I must apologize.I'm so sorry.

I just updated out etsy shop and wanted to give a heads up before we sent out our news letter.

so heres a few pics of what i put in our shop.

I hope you all havent forgotten us?.........

I'll be back..........

a peak at the photo shoot......

More to come........We had soooo much fun! Thanks to Ferrell -the first model, Daniele -second model, Haley-haiestylist/makeup artist and the very talented DanaK Photography.

and the winners are......

We had so many great comments that we decided to pick two winners. And those winners are ......

Gaea of http://www.gaeabeads.blogspot.com/ and Seth of http://www.thealteredpage.blogspot.com/ .So Gaea and Seth, send me an email with your address and i'll get your Bohemian Heart out to you .Yeah! I love drawings!I love them so much that we are going to start doing random drawings......Yes random. What does this mean you ask? Well if you are making comments and because we love to recieve comments, than we may just pick a blog or two and throw the names of those who commented in a hat and give you something.I'd love to do this maybe twice a month so keep in touch with us and make those comments!

Other news.....I've just posted more of the resin head pins to our etsy shop so please check them out. I really love the little round ones....

And heres the leaf...

So i'm also thinking of putting up one of Tony's cuff bracelets. What do you think?

This is all recycled Shibuichi and i'm telling you its just lovely.......I've just got to figure out the size.Anyway let us know what you think about it.

Next weekend we will be in Nashville,TN with the Intergalactic Bead Show.Wow we havent been there in years! I cant wait! So if your in the area come out and see us.

Hmmmm......... what will we giveaway next?

Imagine

ok guys...this ones from me...tony...remember me...tony...anyway...i'll start with a picture of "me"...don't ask me why...lisa seems to think i need to add some pictures of "me" on the blog every-now-and-then...soooooo...i'm standing in the window and lisa took the picture outside looking in...

i'm going to warn you here and now...this blog is going to have lot's of pictures of me soooooo beware...hey it'll make lisa happy...anyway back to the word of the day...

ok...as of late i've started thinking about mixing different metals together...trying to "imagine" how they would react with each other and what the end result might look like...as well as wanting to recycle some of the old metal i find at the salvage yard...sadly though i do not have a foundry so i have to search for things i can melt with my torch and cast with the equipment i have...anyway on our last trip to the salvage yard i found these old strips of brass...they seem to have come off an old trunk or something like that...soooooo...i started thinking about melting them and using them to cast...heres a picture of the metal strip...my torch...and me...thinking of melting the metal..

then i took my hack-saw cut up the brass strips...and decided to cast some of our hearts with this metal...

so i was only going to cast with this brass but then i thought...why not add some other metal...so i decided to add some copper as well as some silver to the mix...as i started melting the metal it looked very weird and i must admit i did not think it was going to work...



but hey...i'd gone this far...soooooo...might as well let it fly and see what happens...and to be honest i hoped i would get at least one cast but i had my doubts that i'd even get one...

but when all was said and done...everyone of them came out...i could not believe it...and i was soooooo happy...i went on to finish them using the same process i use on the shibuichi...and i was also very happy with the final look...

it has a brass look but with random bits of copper in it...anyway i love this and i'm going to keep working with the mixed...recycled metals...

as we said we are doing a give-away soooooo...after all this talk and pictures how could we not give away one of these hearts...so here it is...make a comment on this blog and at the end of the of the week we'll place the names of all who commented on the blog in a hat and draw a winner...soooooo...let us here from you...and good luck...

well it's time to get back to work...i did another casting last night with mixed metals and can't wait to finish them and see how these look...thanks for stopping by...

Etsy update

I've spent the last two days updateing our etsy store so be sure to go check out all the new things. http://www.zoaart.etsy.com/.

Tony has been playing around with his metals and has cast in bronze,copper and silver! And what i mean by that is he mixed them all together and we've come up with our new Bohemian Metals line! This is so beautiful! And the really great part of all this is the metals are all recycled!

Yes recycled! We made a trip to the salvage yard and found an old chest with a brass kick plate, Tony removed it and used his Hack-Saw( he loves that) cut it into pieces to use for casting.All of our copper also comes from the salvage yard. So where does the recycled silver come from?As you all know i work in PMC (precious metal clay) and i make all our original pieces from PMC then Tony makes a mold and we cast it. Well i take the slip and make tiny cookies on a hot plate and then cook them in the kiln at 1650 for 2 hours, and there you go.....casting grain. Everything is recycled in this house, no wasted materials here.

So here is our first Bohemian Metals casting......

So just let us know what you think and be looking for more Bohemian Metal real soon.

Here are a few other little ditys we put on etsy......

I'll leave you with a picture of my new hair cut.Love it......

on the way out.....

We are on our way to Wilmington,OH.But befor we go I just wanted to let you know that tuesday I will be up dateing our etsy shop. We have lots of new goodies so be watching for it!
And have you noticed our new pictures under Zoa Art and who we are? Well for the first time ever Tony and I got to do a photo shoot together.Our friend Dana is a great photographer and our building and alley way are great backdrops.So she came by and snapped some shots. I'll get more up when we get back.
Have a great weekend!
Soooo sweet!