Articles by: Karen

Inner Circle

Family gifts

Family gifts

Every year I make calendars for my family. I make 4 different types of calendars; 1 for my son and his beautiful family (I also made 1 for me), 1 for my family including my cousins – I’m so glad they are in my life (actually I made 32 of […]

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Accessories, Fused Glass

Findings

Findings

My good friend Tracy owner of Little Llama Studios will be adding findings to her site soon. While I was at her shop the other day she showed me so many wonderful findings; some were for fusers and others more for beaders. I helped her organize some of her chains. […]

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Fused Glass

Fused Glass Earrings

Fused Glass Earrings

While I was at Doherty craft show I had a couple of questions about earrings. The first one was just simply changing out fish hooks for levers. It was an easy change and I did them right there within 5 mins. Additionally while I was at the craft show one […]

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Fused Glass

Fused Glass Angel Night Light

Fused Glass Angel Night Light

During the Doherty craft show one of my long time customers bought a nightlight and as I was about to ring it up I dropped and broke it. Ironically it was right after she said it’s amazing your pieces don’t break. I said oh they will if you drop them […]

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Fused Glass, Recycled Bottles

Bottle cheese plates

Bottle cheese plates

I just completed a commercial order of 48 cheese plates. I can’t call them recycled because since it was a large order I bought the bottles. They are quite large and very cool. Thank you to the restaurant that ordered them. The restaurant consistently supports me and my business. Thank […]

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Art, Fused Glass

Fused Glass Poinsettia

Fused Glass Poinsettia

I love a challenge and one of my customers and friends asked me to make a poinsettia. There are a couple of different texture molds that I showed her. She asked me if I minded making both and I told her absolutely not. I made some test sheets and we […]

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Commercial, Fused Glass

Final Soap Dish Order Completed

Final Soap Dish Order Completed

My fused glass commercial soap dish order is complete. This was the 4th style with the order and this one alone was over a 1000 piece order. It took me several months and my good friend Tracy helped me with it. Thank God for Tracy. Here are just a few […]

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Fused Glass

Fused Glass Work Decals

Fused Glass Work Decals

I love glass. I love getting it for myself and I love giving it as gifts. This year I gave small glass dishes and magnets to my co-workers. I put a lot of thought into each one, thinking about what each person likes. Here are the magnets. I made each […]

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Fused Glass

Doherty Craft Fair Winner

Doherty Craft Fair Winner

I had my last craft show of the year 4-5 December. It was a great show. I got to see some old friends and meet new ones. Thank you for everyone who came by. I really like Doherty because it’s 2 days and much easier on my body with set […]

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Blog

Happy Thanksgiving - 2021

Happy Thanksgiving – 2021

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I had a great time with family on the western slope (Delta) of Colorado. Here are just a few pictures of family. It was the first time Sky wasn’t with us. In fact it was the only time we weren’t all together since […]

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Fused Glass, Night lights

Custom Fused Glass Night light

Custom Fused Glass Night light

In October I wrote a post about my new faux stained glass ornaments. I took them to my shows at Liberty and Rampart. Obviously I sold some as ornaments but I also had a customer ask me if I could change the one below into a nightlight. Because it had […]

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Fused Glass, Home Decor

Tiny Fused Glass Flowers

Tiny Fused Glass Flowers

I love flowers and I love making fused glass flowers. Obviously I’ve shown my big flowers – that I just love! But I haven’t shown many of my tiny fused glass flowers. I think they are beautiful and so very versatile. First they can be left flat, or slumped, and […]

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Home Decor

"New" Uranium Glass

“New” Uranium Glass

A couple months ago I wrote a post about Uranium glass I purchased. Since then I got me a few more pieces that I thought I’d show off. Some glow a lot more than others like the cup and saucer below. Also some show up really well on a black […]

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Fused Glass

Winner of Rampart Art Show - 2021

Winner of Rampart Art Show – 2021

Yesterday I had another Arts and Craft Show at Rampart High School. I like Rampart’s show because I don’t have to set up and tear-down the same day. It’s so much work and hard on our bodies. Here are some photos from my Rampart booth. Just like Liberty show I […]

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