my my, i blink and kaboom! i’m back to sailorgirl jewelry not just plain sailorgirl. although i don’t really know how it happened it appears to be june. and i appear to be not on my sailboat in the middle…

you turn on a tap and water gushes out. did you ever stop and wonder where that water comes from? in our case the water comes from a tank hidden under the v-berth (that’s the bed in the pointy end…

oh boy a new harbour to explore! we arrive in marathon in the florida keys, we haven’t been here in 5 years, things have changed. it’s been a good day and a fabulous sail down, 45 miles of perfect sailing….

for 360 degrees all i can see is blue, we are a single white speck in a blue bubble. there is no land in sight just endless blue. we’re crossing over from the florida everglades down to the florida keys…

seriously, this was inspired by my sailboat. ok, not when it was sailing in beautiful aquamarine water, but when i was hanging upside down in the lazarette (cockpit storage locker) trying to align the new diesel engine. in 2004 we…

sometimes I feel like a kite. or a balloon. when the wind starts howling, screaming, whistling, raging like a banshee, we sit on the boat and feel it vibrate. we’re tethered to the planet by a piece of steel and…

i want to make a necklace the colour of flamingos.

Another tough day. When we first started sailing I thought everyone else was a raving alcoholic. It was drinks on this boat, drinks with your neighbours, drinks with anyone passing by. The idea is that by sundown your anchor should…

do fish see in colour? it would be a shame to live in a coral reef with so much fabulous colour and not even notice it. if i were a fish i’d spend all my time just looking at my…

it was our first night at anchor. tucked into the lee of useppa island the water was flat, the wind non-existent. we floated oh so gently. the sun dipped below the horizon, the sky became pink and all was calm….

adventure: is this a verb or a noun? the dictionary has adjectives, adverbs, nouns. I like the adjective – adventurous: meaning inclined to undertake new and daring enterprises. Or the noun – meaning an unusual or exciting experience. I propose…

It’s one thing to think about what you want for dinner tonight, it’s another to think about what to have for dinner in 2 months time.Anticipated launch day is tomorrow. We should leave the dock within 2 days. From there…

i want to make a series of glass beads in the colours of the sky, specifically the colours of the sky as a really big really nasty storm passes through. all afternoon the sky was an intense blue, a hurt…

Oh boy! the mast is going on, we’re a sailboat again!!! when we store the boat for the off-season we take the stick off, less windage in case of a hurricane. It’s always a big mental step seeing the stick…

ah life in a boatyard. sitting around the picnic table this morning with fellow boaters listening to the woodpeckers, morning doves, and bulldozers from next door, we discuss our glamourous floating existence. talk turns to the problem of storing gasoline…

YIPPEEEEEE!!!!!!If you want something badly enough, you can always find a way to make it work. Never in a million years did I think I could make a business out of going sailing and playing with hot liquid glass. Aside…

It was with mixed feelings that I walked out of the studio today. After 4 1/2 years I’m leaving the nest. Made You Look has been my little home away from home, my sanctuary, my incubator and now it’s time…

if it wasn’t for deadlines nothing would ever get done. at least not in my world. tomorrow is opening day of the One of a Kind spring show! argh! one of the things about glass is that there are a…