Well, hello there. It’s been quite some time since we chatted like this. I suppose Life has been getting in the way. There’s that “day job” we have yet to quit and now three beautiful grandchildren that we could never have enough time for. Oh yeah, we have made a crazy amount of lamps and…
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Author: Teresa Breuer
Remaining Positive
by Paul Breuer Jr. To Whom It May Concern: Hope all is well with you. While creating new pieces of any sort there’s generally some need to call it something; give it a name as if I were Dr. Frankenstein. Some inspiration or Pinterest led me to send holes through copper earrings. The best choice…
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Sinker Logs to Turkey Calls
In art a non objective is generally made by abstract forms and is not meant to be a realistic interpretation, but allows the viewer the chance to achieve their own opinion of content. At a show at the View in Old Forge last fall the objective had been to meet new customers and sell our…
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A Tree of a Different Color
The perceived beginning of a season is more critical at certain times of the year than others. When temperatures in February and March swing from below freezing at night to near 40 during the day, a magical thing happens to sugar maples here in the Northeast. Sap begins to flow, then it is collected,…
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Cherry Burls
Burls make more than fine lamp bases. After many seasons of growth, effort expended to cut, dry and slice, a burl has great worth even at a small scale. Hardly any pieces are discarded due to this inherently perceived value and a product may be created to utilize these scraps. Out of curiosity I made…
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A Burl Life
Trees across the Adirondacks become stressed by an injury, virus or fungal infection which affects the growth hormones in many of them. The different malformations caused by this, ironically make grain patterns and external shapes that become admirable to the wood worker. They are used by artists, furniture makers, wood turners, lamp manufacturers and many…
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Compliments of Nature
We met Jim Schreiner almost 20 years ago. He was good friends with Shirl and John Stacy of Lean-2 Studio where I was working at that time. Jim has done a variety of things over the years but furniture making has been continuous with his business Great Sacandaga Designs now doing mostly consignment work. Paul and I…
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Coming this Spring….
Spring has Sprung! And YES, we did survive the Adirondack winter of 2016-17. Now that we are getting deeper into the new year, we have two upcoming events to announce!! Please join us on May 6 from 4-8 PM at Rustic Charm on Main Street in Chestertown. We will be having a Grand Re-opening in…
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Old Shows Lead to New Venues
While taking a break at our Arts in the Park show in Inlet, I enjoy mingling with other artists that I have come to know and seeing all the other arts and crafts. Sometimes people we meet are an inspiration for a new product or at times someone will steer us towards a new venue that might work…
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ReCycle, RePurpose & ReUse
There seems to be a growing trend towards fixing what you have rather than discarding it and buying brand new. This is also true of lamps and lamp shades. I get a lot of requests for re-making lamp shades for people so that they can give new life to old lamps they have and do not…
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