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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Another Day at the Office

"The harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson

This past weekend I participated in another art show at El Portal Visitors Center at El Yunque Rainforest. It was such a great weekend with bright blue skies and a soft breeze blowing! We all really enjoyed it and met so many great visitors to our island paradise! Here are a few photos -

Our Art Space -

The View -

Diane Cutter Working -

Jaymee Weinreich Working -

Lisa Wigger Working -

Tom Benesh Working

One of Tom's Hand Sculpted Porcelain Pieces -

The next art show featuring the EDGE artists at El Yunque will be February 28 - March 2 from 9 - 5 daily at El Portal Visitors Center located at the main entrance to the rainforest. If you're in the area stop by and say hi, we'd love to meet you!

In other news, I'm still waiting for my lampwork glass torch!!!!!!!!! The company that we ordered from sent me the wrong one and of course, the one we ordered is now on BACK ORDER! I have been so excited to make glass again and anxious to get back to making my Gypsy Sol charm bracelets so I dug up some of the lampwork I already had and made this, I call her Princessa. Making these bracelets is a great excercise in patience which I really need right now...

If you'd like to see more of my Gypsy Sol bracelets visit my Flickr library at www.flickr.com/photos/cocoblack and click on lampwork and gem jewelry. It will give you a good idea of what these one of a kind collector bracelets are all about :)

Have a great day!

Cheri, aka Coco Black

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

More of El Yunque Rainforest

On Friday, June 29th I was fortunate enough to participate in a great event, Art Night at El Yunque. With the sounds of the coqui frogs off in the distance, the event took place at El Portal in the Caribbean Rainforest, El Yunque. Sponsored by the US Forest Service the evening included dining, dancing, drinking and art, all under a big bright full moon. These are some pictures from the event.

Lisa Wigger from LeeLoo Studio

My Table Display

A Sampling of Lisa's Work. See more at http://www.leeloostudio.com/

Jaymee Weinreich, one of my favorite artists in Puerto Rico. See more of Jaymee's awesome work at http://www.weinreichstudio.com/

My new friend Olga. She does amazing work with sea glass and wire.

Lisa Wigger, Rob Wigger and my honey Tim Blackford

"In the Mist" by Tim Blackford

The next Art Night at El Yunque will be held on Friday, July 27th from 6 - 11PM. If you're going to be in Puerto Rico make sure to put this on your agenda, it's a night not to miss.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Enchantment

What do you think of when you hear the word enchantment? For me it evokes images of dark forests, faeries, magical creatures and Puerto Rico, the island's nickname is Isla Del Encanto, Island of Enchantment. Last weekend I got a little glimpse of that enchantment. While hiking in El Yunque Rainforest in the late afternoon we turned a bend and the path in front of us was illuminated, just like I would imagine a magic forest, I've included the picture for you all to see. Enjoy my whimsical and enchanting pick's this week.

"Three Wise Faeries" 8 x 10 Gothic Fairy Fantasy Art Print by Jasmine Becket-Griffith, aka Strangeling, Celebration, FL - $14