Wednesday, October 6, 2010

corning

 Spent the weekend with my mom - did I already mention that?  I just love her...she's my fave.  We are REALLY into exploring art museums...so I clearly had to take her to the Corning Glass Museum.  AMAZING.  I so totally HIGHLY HUGELY recommend experiencing that place - phenomenal collection.  And surprisingly - there was a ton of kiddo-s there...with lots of activities geared for them (it's always fun to watch kids at museums when they are totally engaged in what they are doing, isn't it?) 

They also have a superior gift shop - with gigantic displays of locally blown glass pumpkins and apples for the fall.  My mom and I went nuts (though I can't believe I didn't take any pictures of that!!!)  I bought a brilliant lil pumpkin friend...a momento of the day.

Have you ever watched glass being blown?  It is such a magical moment.  We just dig it.  We "ooooo" and "ahhhhh" and squeal and clap (we have a hard time restraining ourselves sometimes when we get excited.)   I bet someday we dabble in glass art...I like the idea of working with stained glass. 

It is such a beautiful medium. 



4 comments:

  1. MMMM I love glass art. Last year there was this huge Art Crawl in Fargo, ND and one of the artists blew glass for everyone. So neat to watch!

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  2. Beautiful.

    We are living in a big art glass sort of place too.

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  3. wow! i'm not even sure i realized there were glass museums.

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  4. I took a stained glass making class. It was fantastic.

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