While I was in Emeryville visiting my Son, Alyssa, and brand new baby girl. I got a chance to go to the bullseye resource center. One of the things I love about bullseye is they show artists work. This time they showed, 3 fused glass artists. The first was Susan […]
While I was making my vitrigraph pieces I came across some glass that I wanted to refuse. Some were donut pendants that I found too large. So I decided to cut them down. I really like them now. They were casted fused glass donuts and I cut off the sides, […]
Last year I took a class with Laurie Spray on cane’s and vitrigraph. I’ve used some of the blue cane in several pieces but I wanted to use some of the orange cane I made in actual fused glass pieces. I made 3 small dishes. […]
Happy New Year! Every year I do a review of my glass activities. 2017 was a great year for me professionally, family, and in glass. I added more responsibilities at work and I love it. As far as my family life; my daughter graduated High […]
As I was preparing for my DYK in my December’s Newsletter, I came across a few other fused glass pieces that I just wasn’t completely happy with and decided I’d re-slump them. I made this beautiful leaf a few months ago, but when I slumped it I didn’t care for […]
I mentioned Sandy in another blog. She has amazing taste for real art. Anytime she comes she picks the most unique pieces. In my woodland park show she bought my first fused glass fish. In the Doherty show Sandy chose several pieces. My fused […]
Melanie is another one of my friends and amazing customers. She recently started a new job with foster children in El Paso county. I love children and wanted to support both the children and Melanie. So I donated over a 100 fused glass pendants. I included chains/cords and put them […]
So not only did my old friends come by I met some new ones as well. Julie came in wanting to match the teal in her shirt with a pendant. Within 2 minutes we found 2 fused glass pendants, 1 teal which matched her shirt perfectly and a red one […]
I mentioned Julie in another blog. She and Vicky come and see me at my shows on a regular bases and normally buy my fused glass snaps. Both Vicky and Julie have amazing taste. Last show Vicki bought one of my favorite fused glass vases of all times and during […]
I’ve been doing the Doherty Craft Fair for several years. It’s one of my favorites shows. The winner of this year’s Doherty Craft Fair is Andrea. I’ve emailed her and even though I don’t have another show this year, she still has opportunities to choose her prize. […]
While at the Liberty Craft Show, some of my favorite fused glass pieces found good home. First was my fused glass candle mantle sconce. It’s beautiful and it was the first one I’ve ever made. I really liked it because I used irradiated on the back so it was really […]
I always enjoy showing off my glass and I really like High School shows. I love creating fused glass and I like showing it off. I always do a sign up list for my newsletter. Then I use Random.org to chose a winner, For Liberty the winner is Lynn. I’ve […]
I love making soap dishes and sushi dishes so I thought I’d do a little something special for my customers that buy either one. If you buy a fused glass sushi dish from me I’ll give you a set of chop sticks. It’s kind of funny I know because most […]
I love all my fused glass pieces. Each piece I make is special and has a special place in my heart. But every now and then there is an extra special piece. I made such a piece and at the Holly Berry Art Show it went to a good home. […]
