blown glass trinkets

A young fellow from Owego, NY, Eric Johnson, makes these blown glass ornaments. As pendants, they can be worn as jewelry or hung from your rear view mirror. We have two pretty pipes, also, one pictured above.

Gifts for May birthdays and Mother's Day

We're all about Images on Demand in lasting form. But, at the same time, Wordsworth once wrote of the artist creating the taste by which he or she is to be enjoyed, and we have always done a large bit of that too. Magpie's own extreme eclecticism of good taste is evident if you spend just three minutes browsing our art tiles. If I were a thief with an ideal(ized) mother, I would be stealing the following from our shop to send to her: a little glass bud vase adorned with a miniature wood bird house and colorful curly wire that she can stick on the bathroom mirror holding the sprig of her choice (12.00); a 4" ceramic tile coaster blazoned with lilacs photographed by Chris Galin (8.00); and our Heart Nouveau (pictured below) 2" ceramic magnet (4.00) or coaster (6.00). These would all fit in a lacquered wood treasure box with a 4" tile inlaid in the lid, perhaps a personalized tile (30.00 at Magpie gallery shop).

Purple rain, Red Apple Falls, Shower o' Tiles

If rainbows could rain. That's what it feels like some days, in this business, if I focus on the negative space around the drab piles of paper in my inbox. We have so many new images coming in from artists--Jo Dunnick surprised us with watercolor renditions of Tillie Baldwin and other cowgrrrls (above), which we are turning into tile, along with new equine beauties and the sweet but not cloying "Pour Your Heart Out" (shown above on a 6" x 8" tile); Dan Bacich has been dodging into phone booths in between painting leaves, and bringing forth new (brilliant) assemblages--he calls them "boxes"--photographs of which are going to make some truly amazing tiles. Yes they are. We'll devote a future post to them. Meanwhile, we're working with Bill Callahan nee Smog on tile coasters and boxes, and we hope some "soft" goods, featuring images from his CDs, including the new Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle. Yes, we can provide Tuscan landscape murals for your backsplash, as well, and magnificent Victorian-neoclassic Tadema murals for your shower, but we can't stop the thirsty purple rain cloud that follows us around like a guardian angel and seems to be our brand identity and brand difference.

glass cutting boards

A new image, "Morning Woodland" by Richard Murch, came out beautifully on this brushed glass cutting board or cheese board (dim. 7.5" x 11"). When you're not using it, hang it on your wall or prop it in a window to let the sun shine through claret.