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Going forward, I will be using my Tumblr site exclusively.  I will no longer post updates in Blogger.  Please check out my Tumblr site at the link below. 

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Chris Miller

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Poppies in a Field and Love for the Saintly City

Poppies on a full sized window:

...and a little bit of love for what my dad used to refer to as "the saintly city"

It's a Wonder and a few other Things

Wonder Bread, how I dreamed of you as a kid (mostly because of the free football card that was included inside your packaging).  But mom saw through your tactics and due to your high price and poor nutritional makeup, placed you on a list in her mind of products we would not be taking home from the grocery store (Lucky Charms comes to mind as another on that dreaded list).

I don't know if they still offer free football cards, and I can't say for sure what happened, but now I can buy all the Wonder Bread and Lucky Charms I want, yet I have no interest in doing so.  Nothing, however, could stop the creation of Wonder Bread in glass on a 36 x31 inch window.

Enjoy!  It's good for you.

A few additional small pieces to boot

And a small Japanese flag created in my recent glass fusing class.  Eighth of an inch white 96 COE glass melted atop an eighth of an inch 96 COE clear glass blank.  Topped off by a 96 COE red circle to complete the flag.

Cherry Blossoms and Home is Where the Heart is

Below Freezing through at least next Monday (today is Tuesday), which has nothing to do with glass mosaic, but it is very much on my mind as I type this.

Anyhoo, a rather large (36 by 32 inch) old window gives birth to a very Spring like cherry blossoms design.  Ahhh... cherry blossoms...Spring...warm...[sigh] 

And sometimes I heart Minneapolis (though it is, I admit, testing my patience this winter)

More Wishful Thinking, Flowers

Flowers (sigh) will we ever see you again?  A large window mosaic reminder of spring (a time of year I struggle now to remember)

Weeds Will Grow Anywhere and a Little Tree Swing

Dandelions from bottles on a full sized old window, and a little tree swing on an 11 by 7 inch frame.

Hey! I made the St. Paul Newspaper

...well sort of.  I've been hanging/selling mosaics at a really cool vintage store in my neighborhood, Junket:Tossed and Found, since December of 2012.  Julie, the owner, regularly garners press for her store, and low and behold if one of my Dylan mosaics didn't make it into a picture attached to the latest article, along with about half of one of my other creations.

"Well, sometimes I might get drunk, walk like a duck and smell like a skunk."
-  Dylan

See the picture, read the article here http://www.twincities.com/life/ci_24883397/two-minneapolis-vintage-shops-opening-stores-within-stores

Big Sky

Big crazy sky over a little town church, on a  28 by 31 inch beat up old window.