lurker's first post

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ok so lurker isn't really my name..it's lisa...honest :) I recently joined but I'm a shy, quiet kinda gal and just decided now to jump in and say hi :) *waves a smiley hi*(mind you, not in too corny a way..snort, chuckle, snort)
I'm really impressed by the posts here and have gotten so many ideas already from what I've read. You are all quite amazing creative souls and I'm looking forward to meeting all of you :)
I'm a stained glass artist (starving artist but that's ok too, I get more pleasure from creating pieces for loved ones than any piece I'd sell) I love all things crafty. I knit, crochet, sew(a wee bit, nothing to write home about :))Want to try my hand at recycling toss aways into treasures. This little passage about Howard Finster(visionary artist) speaks volumes to me ~"I took the pieces you threw away and put them together by night and day washed by rain dried by sun, a million pieces all in one," reads a sign in Paradise Garden. It was Finster's intention to gather one each of all of the "inventions of man" from the "scrap heap," re-invest them with time and "color" and place them in the "garden" to give them new life. He wanted to take the ordinary "cast-offs" and make them extraordinary and, at the same time, metaphorically "mend a broken world."
Anyway just thought I would say hi and tell you all how much I enjoy learning from you :)
~lisa~