My name is Cindy
Kovar, I make and sell handcrafted pottery beads and pendants locally and on Etsy in
my Captured Moments shop. I hope people
Capture a Moment and Express themselves with my designs. I live in the great state of Texas and love
the diversity of people, culture, landscape and food that Texas offers. The challenging part of living in Texas is
the summers but I survive the heat with lots of cold sweet iced tea and
lemonade.
In
my family no one claims the title of artist, yet my family is full of creative
people. I am a southern girl, and my Dad
is a Blacksmith, Gardener, and a maker and inventor of sorts, he is very
resourceful. My Mom is a cook and baker,
seamstress, decorator, and fixer of all things.
My siblings are equally talented with their own special skills. My family is full of builders, quilters, cooks,
farmers, gardeners, seamstress and other talents. From my earliest memories I
have been creative, often spending my time and money getting supplies for my
next project at the five and dime in my small rural hometown in Texas. I have often been told I am talented but I
feel everyone has their own talents and that they just have to find them and
embrace them. Being creative is the
driving force that keeps me grounded, I am constantly reading, exploring,
experimenting and trying something new.
I always have some project started, most often getting dirty during the
process. I am the proud mom of 2
wonderful girls, who are very creative. They paint, draw, weave, make jewelry,
sculpt in clay and polymer clay and stay busy exploring their talents. My husband and I have filled the walls of our
home with our daughters’ art work and we enjoy seeing it every day.
I
am a blue jeans and boots kind of girl, where some women have a closet full of
shoes; I have a closet full of boots.
Being from Texas I love Mexican food, the hotter the better! The girls and I make Mexican food several
times a week and we can homemade salsa by the gallons each summer.
I
feel blessed to be able to have a small studio space and create beautiful beads
and pendants for other creative people to add their own special touches. I love it when a customer sends me a photo of
what they did with my work and I often use it online as a sample with their
permission. The neat thing about pottery
is that I am in control of the whole process from designing, making, and firing
the pieces. I strive to make quality
pieces at an affordable price.
All my pieces start out as clay that is dug from Texas soil, I hand cut
each piece, the beads dry and then are sanded and fired to cone 04 bisque, they
are then glazed, re-fired to cone 06, checked and any rough spots from the
firing stilts are removed, they are then photographed and packaged and listed
for sale. I have made many of the tools
I use to create my pieces as well as most of my kiln furniture for firing the
pieces.
I hope to share with you my pottery beads, other artist
beads and creations. I may share a great
recipe from time to time. And there will be some humor as there are never any dull moments
here. Thanks for reading my blog. Cindy
Here are a few of my new beads available at .www.CapturedMoments.Etsy.com
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| Here are some lovely green beads just in time for St. Patrick's Day. |
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| Mixed media cuff bead with brass gears, these are attached with micro screw thru the pottery. |
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| My new favorite quote by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. |
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| These are so fun, I have attached little daisy beads with the micro screws. |
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| These fun steampunk beads are accented with a sterling plated gear on top. |
