I’ve been playing around with glass tile necklaces, with either prints from my artwork, or original drawings, as fun and wearable art.
Here are the 2 prototypes–based on the watercolor series (“Robot World“) which is currently in the Museum of Science in Boston. One is the robot from “A Clockwork Red” and the other is one of the balloons in the background of “Blue”. I’m really loving the balloon one, I’ve worn it several times!

And yes, I’m about 6 months behind on my shop (I really have to stop starting other projects!), so if you’d be interested in one, drop me an email! I’ll do a “really, the shop will be up soon” special for you guys for $18, including US shipping. [dot-at-dabbled-dot-org] . So if you’ve always wanted to wear some Dot Art around your neck, here’s your chance! It doesn’t have to be one of these 2, but it does need to be something i have a high quality print of lying around the house to slice up for you. And yeah, if you want an original it will be a little more.

These are done with prints (obviously!) but my idea is to also showcase original drawings/watercolors, for something more personalized, or more special.

I’ll do a post on how I made the necklaces next week, but if you’re in a hurry to try it yourself, I’ll point you to this good tutorial that I found at Trey & Lucy, where she does some really cute ones using scrapbook paper. Oh, and I totally screwed up at first — can you figure out what’s wrong with the balloon one shown in the picture?

As you may have picked up, I’m planning to get the Dabbled/Art shop up and running, all new and spiffy. To give you my fabulous readers a little taste, I’m offering Dabbled readers-only special: a set of 8 postcards with the (reader favorite) “Talisman” piece (The flower sniffing robot shown here, without the copyright watermark of course).

Postcards are professionally printed, approx 4″x6″ with a glossy front–they’ll come packaged in pretty paper if you want to gift them. I have a limited number of these sets, and for you guys right now, they are $10, including shipping.

To Buy:
Hmm, Paypal button wasn’t working. So just email me nancy[at]dabbled[dot]org.

Also, although I got some great feedback from the recent survey, if you missed the survey or want to add more opinions, I’d love your thoughts on other pieces you’d like to see as cards (Poppiees is in the works). Also, I’m looking at T-shirts, and I’m trying to decide between the digital printing (like Cafepress) which is full color, or going for screen printing, which would only have 2 or 3 colors. I tend to like the look of screenprinting better, but what do you guys think?

By the way, I also have the big 5×8 Art Postcards available, at the current Artfire shop.