This lovely surprise was created by my good friend and Artist, Shanna Wagner. I love everything she makes, but this one is even more wonderful because it is jam packed with meaning.
I can just picture his reaction, if he’d seen this. He had an appreciation for artwork. And for kind people.
The heart in the center is a fused piece she made in her kiln.
It is surrounded by roses, iris, hydrangeas,
and two bluebirds of happiness!
It was made to fit this antique frame, that is just perfectly wonderful itself.
And it is created to hang either in a window to let the sunlight through, or on a wall, with lights behind it.
Ryan loved red roses and purple iris. Funny, I’d known him forty years before I knew how much he enjoyed flowers. We’d stop to look at them along our walks. There were iris growing by the pond we liked to circle, over and over, and he commented every time when the purple iris were in bloom.
There was so much I learned about my boy in his last few years, I wonder what else I’d have discovered if I had more time with him?
Shan isn’t just generous with her art, she is with her time, home, and materials too. She invites friends into her studio weekly to have a mosaic day. Here is my piece in progress.
I saved the vases that flowers were delivered to us in after Ry Guy died. I hope to cover them all in mosaic glass to use throughout our home and his apartment. And I know that he would have said, “Wow, Mom, that is cool!”
While there is much I will never get to discover about him, I love it that I know enough to hear his voice in my head, picturing what I know he would say to me about something like these mosaics.
Beautiful framed stained glass piece! And the vase you’re working on has great colors in it.