Across the Chesapeake Bay from Annapolis, MD sits the Delmarva Peninsula, so named for the three states that divide it. There's the whole of Delaware on the eastern side. It's flanked by Maryland to the west and the bottom 70 or so miles of that spit of land make up Virginia's Eastern Shore.

The other day I received a link from the great Laura Aiken and her linked directed me to Tom and Saundra Synder's Designer Glass Mosaics. Tom and Saundra have a Charlotte, NC- based glass studio and together, they produce commissioned glass work work like nothing I have ever seen. The Snyders do a lot with fused glass. Fused glass is the technique of layering cut and powdered glass and then putting it into a kiln so the layers can melt and fuse together. The result is a glass with dimension and intense color saturation.

New Ravenna Mosaics fabricates the newly expanded Beau Monde line for Ann Sacks. The great Sara Baldwin, who is the heart and soul of New Ravenna,has a run-through of the collection on her blog, Sara Baldwin Design. Reading Sara's stories behind the patterns and getting a glimpse of her motives and inspirations adds a significant dimension to this work. These patterns harness the vocabulary of natural stone and make it sing