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Fused Glass e-books - kiln carving

Fused Glass e-books – kiln carving

For March I’m focusing on fused glass e-books from Helios studios. As I mentioned in my last blog, they have 17 e-books albeit, I’ll be focusing on 12 e-books that I’ve purchased and love. Not that I didn’t buy the other 5! The third fused glass e-book I want to talk […]

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Fused Glass e-books - bubbles

Fused Glass e-books – bubbles

For March I’m focusing on fused glass e-books from Helios studios.  As I mentioned in my last blog, they have 17 e-books albeit, I’ll be focusing on 12 e-books that I’ve purchased and love.  The second fused glass e-book I want to talk about is his fused glass bubbles e-book.   […]

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Fused Glass Techniques from E-books - Drop vase

Fused Glass Techniques from E-books – Drop vase

For those of you who follow my fused glass blogs you know that this year I’m focusing on fused glass techniques I’ve learned over the years. One of my favorite ways to learn new fused glass techniques, other than classes of course, is e-books. The reason is because it cost […]

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Art, Blog, Fused Glass, Jewelry, Pendant

Fused glass - St Patrick's Day and Easter

Fused glass – St Patrick’s Day and Easter

I thought I’d do a quick post about some of my fused glass St Patrick’s day and Easter pendants. Of course any fused pendant can be be changed into a bookmark or key chain I can make a variety of fused glass pieces with various holiday decals including St. Patrick’s […]

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Follow-up to January and February Fused Glass projects

Follow-up to January and February Fused Glass projects

In January I wrote blogs about my class with Patty Gray and I wrote about my bubble soap dishes that I couldn’t find well I found them in the oddest place.  I really like this technique! The white one on the right is the jaws at the top.     […]

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Other Fused Glass Techniques

Other Fused Glass Techniques

There were other fused glass techniques I learned from Tanya that I won’t be doing blogs about this month. The first time I did fused glass tapestry was with Tanya, as art. The one on the left is the one I learned at Tanya’s and the second one I learn […]

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Fused Glass - Pattern bars

Fused Glass – Pattern bars

Another fused glass technique I first learned from Tanya is pattern bars. Actually she taught several types of pattern bars. The original fused glass piece we made in class has several techniques including: pattern bars, flash glass, and powder printing.  This blog I’m only going to focus on fused glass […]

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New Fused Glass Pendants

New Fused Glass Pendants

For February I’ve focused on larger functional fused glass artwork, but I also wanted ya’ll to see some of the pendants I’ve been working on.           In case you were curious yes I’ve made so many new fused glass snaps as well!! All sizes!!     […]

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Fused Glass - 1st Crackle dish

Fused Glass – 1st Crackle dish

I’ve been focusing on fused glass techniques I learned from Tanya. One technique I learned from her was the crackle technique. As you know the father of crackle is Bob Leatherbarrow, however the first time I tried it was with Tanya, she taught it with jewelry then she taught it […]

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Fused Glass - Flash glass and Sandblast

Fused Glass – Flash glass and Sandblast

In the first big fused glass boot camp I took with Tanya she taught us sandblasting.  The owl is still one of my favorite pieces that I made. She made us do it as homework and it took us all week, but I love it!! I keep it in my […]

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New Fused Glass Votives

New Fused Glass Votives

I have been busy this month revisiting old fused glass techniques.  However, I had some fused glass bowls I didn’t like all that much.  For anyone who comes to my shows or reads my blogs know that if I don’t like a fused glass piece that I made then I […]

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Fused glass - strip construction

Fused glass – strip construction

As I mentioned in my last blog I am focusing on the fused glass techniques I learned in two of Tanya’s big Bootcamps.  In this blog I thought I’d write about fused glass strip construction, I learned it in the first large project bootcamp. Typically when creating fused glass you […]

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Fused Glass Focus Technique - Kiln Carve

Fused Glass Focus Technique – Kiln Carve

Last month I focused on fused glass techniques I learned from a Patty Gray class I took. For this month I’m going to focus on some fused glass techniques I learned from Tanya Veit from AAE Glass. I’ve written about Tanya many many times. The first time I met Tanya […]

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Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day

Valentine’s day is just around the corner and I thought I’d post a few pictures of some fused glass options for Valentines ‘day.                 As I was looking for pictures of some appropriate fused glass Fused Glass jewelry I ran across an old […]

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