oh, we all have them. We all have our first love & we have all had our hearts broken. When we fall in love, it feels like our hearts have grown larger. Some of us have loved only once, others have loved many times. To love…is to trust. Some of us have given our hearts…
Category: MaBeArt
treasure box art
All these origami boxes were made by Maggie Begun, my mother. Each box, in & of itself, is a treasure, BUT sometimes she puts things inside. Sometimes she makes Sculpey (polymer clay) buttons, she tumbles rocks, uses her own fused glass designs to decorate the top of each box. These boxes belong to me, lucky…
free antidepressant
I grew up in Vermont. My parents will tell you it was six months of winter. I remember it as, “this is life & what else is there?” My parents had lived in other places & disliked the length of Vermont winters. When my mother was feeling blue from winter, she would take us to…
her work shines
My mom’s fused glass is put together as one piece. She displays her glass in most of the windows of her house.
DIY art for the garden
This art project is a very simple one, if you don’t mind stopping by a brook or stream in search of the perfect rock. Or a trip to the dollar store in search of marbles. This was put together by my mother & it sits, usually around her indoor house plants. A shock of blue,…
stacked stones
my mother’s porch. her glass art, a miniature, sits atop her pile of stones. someday those stones could find themselves as sand, then fired in a kiln, made into glass… DIY art project…the stacking of stones is one anyone can do. Glue together if they are to sit in the garden.
rock, paper, scissors & glass
her media choices are ever changing, her style changes as does the seasons. My mother finds an art form & takes it every direction she cares to, until she stumbles onto another. Her studio table, today, is covered in glass- bright, colorful & sharp. All waiting to be assembled. On her shelves, sit her origami…
pieces of glass
glow all over my mother’s house
bluebird’s behind
nothing cuter. photo by Maggie
stars in my eyes
birmingham botanical gardens. by Maggie
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