Thank you for this Experience

Greetings! Time moves
so fast. Seems like the more I work, the more intensely I try
to focus, the faster it all whizzes by. Once again I find myself
wishing I had gotten this news letter finished weeks ago. Seems
like I always eventually get to where I am trying to go. I find
it hard to believe that Christmas, and winter, are so near already.
I have been working hard keeping up with a few Christmas orders,
maintaining my wholesale customers, and making a good number of
marbles. This is all on top of continuing with my work with in
Blacksburg at the Orthotics / Prosthetics office, making progress
on my home addition project, and gathering fire wood for the coming
winter





I have been taking videos
of available marbles and hosting them on youtube.com for the last
few weeks. Video has provided a really great way for others to
get a better sense of what my marbles look like in person. Check
them out! Tiemeyerglass
- Youtube.com







A lot of has happened since my last news letter.
This time I have decided to share with images more than words.
I took a quick walk in a general circle of a portion of our property.
I took about 60 quick photos. I ended up with 14 photos that I
thought were nice and gave a decent perspective of our surroundings
as well as having a little fun. We really love living here and
put a lot of time end energy into our life here. I used to take
a lot of photos years ago and really enjoyed work with film. It
has been a long time, and even those these photos were taken digitally,
I had fun. Messing around with perspective, framing, and macro
is always enjoyable.


Click on the photos for the larger image:
Looking down the road from my house

















A tiered hill with garden
beds. We still have broccoli under the plastics tents and the
swiss chard is hanging there.
















A few shots of my home
and the remodeling / addition work going on.

Random fungis on the rotting oak that I cut.

The stump of the tree that will keep us warm much of the winter

The very most recent addition to our flock of chickens. It is so nice when they end up being hens and not roosters













I do have a number of new works available on my website just
in time for Christmas I anticipate having a few more marbles and
some pendants available in the coming weeks.
Click on the images to check these ones out and more.










I am also looking
forward to making small display dishes for my marbles. I have
made larger "candy dish" style displays in the past.
They always looked great!



Please take the time to check out a
little video of me making
a bead. I think it will provide a fun
perspective on what I do every day and what it takes to make a
"quick" bead. It takes about 20 min to make the beads and can be seen in 3 parts. The video is the very 1st time I have tried to do this sort of thing. Right now my shop is not set up very well at all for taking videos. So, please bear with me and as I try new videos it will improve.
(It is taking some time to upload so please check back if the links are not working yet.)

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

For the past few years when I got to bed
at night I have liked to "Give thanks for the experience"
and that's enough. I have spent a good amount of time thinking
about "this experience" the past few months. As challenging
as life can get at times I try to always be thankful for every
bit of the experience, good, seemingly bad, etc........ Thank
you for allowing me to share a little bit of this (my) experience
with you. Cheers! - Kenan