on How We Got Here
Innurendos began with two student glassblowers egging each other on.
The rest is history.
Belle has always been an artist. She found her passion for glassblowing in college and has not swayed from that ever since. One does not start out to make a fortune as a glassblower — at least, not in these times where almost anything one could want or need gets mass produced somehow. Financial success can be equated to staying alive and able to keep on blowing.
The Innurendos that called Belle’s End into being first came to light among pieces she offered for sale at Pagan gatherings in her earliest tries at vending. They differ from the rest of her Art in that they are a little hard to “explain” in the real world. But there was interest — enough to keep her blowing — and surviving.
The Evolution of Innurendos
This is the beginning of a reasoned retrospective and social analysis — or explanation — starting with the evidence at hand and memories of watching the process from a safe distance.
And moving backward, down the path toward the beginning.
Perseverance
Most recently:
2024
Documentation via Instagram — how quaint!
Learning by doing: click on post if it’s a still photo; set tight edge boundaries; Download to a folder. Open up website editing; go to Images; Upload from folder.
Belle captured this double rainbow near her studio.
Rainbow Joy
This was going to be Rainbow Power, but that’s repetitive with Flower Power, and rainbows are a joyful sign, anyhow.
Rainbows are beautiful on their own, as well as adding depth of meaning as they occupy special places in life.
PRIDE and the delight in our differences is a good place to celebrate.
Belle completed the spring production run with a line of rainbows — PRIDE and the chakras.
Flower Power
Somehow, filling the centers with flowers led to the Flower Power collection, taking the intense craftsmanship to new heights.
2023
Surviving Covid-19
2022
Belle has made good use of spirals in her glass. As of 2022 she was working diligently on the shapes and on the steps necessary to make the Innurendos as safe as possible for whatever uses her clientele could come up with.
But the creative uses of shadow in photography don’t always do well for catalog shots.
2021
2020
Parenting and Homemaking
2019
2018
Marketing means getting to know the people who are drawn to products like you have and want to sell
2017
2016
2015
Amazing to me how many of these have gone happily to new homes
2014
2013
Um, uh — on second thought, maybe I don’t want to know
Beautiful …
Everybody’s gotta be a critic
Experiments with clay, I do believe.
2012
Cat is amused. . . large suspicious-looking sausages
2011 and earlier
And the search for documentation continues
The gallery at Weebly
Belle has maintained a gallery of her past work in all of her collections on a site at Weebly. These works are no longer available for sale.
https://bendableglass.weebly.com/
The Belle’s End and BendableGlass websites offer only items that are available for purchase.