I love fused glass eye glass holders. My favorite is the one with my children, but I also like my snap eyeglass holders, because I can change it out anytime I like. Making fused glass eye glass holders is a bit of a pain because the glass has to fit […]
I was going through some of my older pieces and decided to change them up a bit. First, I found some poker guards that didn’t really fit as poker guards. So I changed the 3 of them to large snaps. I love the tree of life. I made it into […]
I’ve spoken about my fabulous commercial businesses that support my small, fused glass business. One of my favorite small businesses that supports my glass business is here in Colorado. Below are just a few of the custom pieces I’ve made for them. Quite the variety! On our way back from […]
Back in March one of my customers asked me if I could teach her how to pull vitrigraph. I love making vitrigraph so I had no problem teaching a basic vitrigraph class. The main reason is people are a bit scared to touch molten glass – I don’t understand why […]
During my visit with my sister earlier this year, she talked about her little house on a Florida river. Laurie has always liked fishing, so we talked about making her a fish related gift. Here are the pieces I made for my beautiful sister. I made enough fused glass fish […]
One of my favorite things to say about fused glass is “everything looks better with glass”. I’ve added fused glass dots to spoons, boxes, knives, and so much more. Here are just a few examples. This time I added fused glass to tiny bottles. Aren’t they so cute. They can […]
I love creating fused glass. I also enjoy donating my fused glass to worthy causes. My friend Cathy told me about Inside Out Youth Services for LGBTQ+ youth 13-24. I have many gay and lesbian friends and you may not know it, my daughter is part of the LGBTQ+ community. […]
Last month I had an order for 80 fused glass black dishes for a hotel/restaurant. You won’t believe it but I received another order for 50 fused glass black dishes, but from another hotel in a different state. Here they are in the kiln for a full fuse, fused, washed, […]
I’ve mentioned Gary from the www.bigredbarnoriginal.com, a few times. He is a wonderful artist. I’ve bought numerous pieces from him. I commissioned him to create a picture of my view of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. I’ve showed you the painting Gary created for me, it is a mixed media […]
I love making fused glass dishes especially using different techniques. Recently I saw a picture in one of my Facebook fused glass and liked it so this first technique is based on that picture. I also sandblasted the first two and then slumped them. I love the mat appearance, such […]
A few months ago, I created a custom fused glass wedding invitation frame for a customer. It was beautiful and too sided. Isn’t it lovely, the back is luminescent. Last month she asked me to make another two-sided wedding invitation frame. The grey glass she chose was quite challenging, it […]
I received an order for 80 black dishes for a hotel/restaurant. I love getting orders for custom production fused glass dishes. The thought of my dishes being in hotel rooms or on fine dining tables make me very happy. Here they are first I cut the black and clear glass, […]
For May 25th, I’d like to open fused glass class options up to y’all. Please let me know which fused glass class you want to take. Typically, classes are about 2 hours. No experience is necessary. Some of the supplies available for class including vitrigraph, frit, dots, murrine, etc. Max […]
Have you ever lost an earring? Well, I have including fused glass earrings that I’ve made. Don’t ask me how but it happens. I make fused glass earrings both post and dangle earrings? Sometime one of my earrings gets lost and instead of trying to make a matching one I […]
