In July I wrote a post about my fused glass sugar castings. In that post I said I couldn’t attach them to other things. Well, that turned out not to be accurate. I used some of the smaller ones on flower stakes. I really like them. You can still see […]
I have my first Art show of the year on 6th & 7th August in Woodland Park. I’m excited, I love seeing my friends and longtime customers. As any of you know who come to visit me, I always give away presents for those of you who get my newsletter. […]
I decided to create glass art based on one of my myriad of tutorials. The class I chose is from Sarinda Jones, her curious mondo & patron class – Fused Glass Sugar Casting. I’ve wanted to do this for a while. I love texture and sugar casting has a lot […]
Wow, I had another fused glass class thanks to Merle. This class was just Merle and her long time friend Kathy. They’ve been friends for 60 years! Kathy made 3 techniques including 3 Christmas Trees. They turn out so great, I love them. She also made the biggest pendant I’ve […]
In April I gave a fused glass class to four lovely ladies and this month I gave another one to three ladies. Thank you Merle for setting this class up for me. In my first class we made small dishes. Here is the class set up. I gave each participant […]
I don’t know about y’all I’m so ready for spring. Recently I added some glass to some of metal plant hangers. I have three types of plant hangers: butterflies, dragonflies, and hummingbirds. I’m not sure which ones I like best. Here are my Butterfly Plant hangers. I could add more […]
In last month’s Newsletter I wrote about adding gold to some of my fused glass pieces. I like the gold so much that I added the gold so much. I like the washi paper so here is the fused glass butterfly and flower with the washi paper and the other […]
One of the wonderful things about fused glass is it’s versatility. There are a variety techniques and a myriad of items that can be created with fused glass. Because of these reasons and so many more fused glass makes the perfect present. Here are just a few recent fused glass […]
I wanted to do a quick updates on some of the fused glass pieces I did in the last few months. First I finished some of the pendants from my fused glass show. The first two are the decal pendants. The two on the left are snaps and the two […]
Last month I wrote about my amazing fused glass butterflies. Laurie Spray created the butterfly tutorial but also the a dragonfly tutorial. In preparation for this post I read a little about dragonflies. Did you know (according to Wikipedia) dragonflies are insects and have two pairs of strong, transparent wings, […]
In keeping with my 2019 goals for my fused glass I decided to uses some of my dichroic glass. I have on hand. I learned to etch dichroic glass years ago from Tanya Veit. Back then it was huge, albeit now it’s pretty common but it’s still beautiful and fun. […]
As I mentioned, this month my blogs will focus on Creative Paradise Inc (CPI) fused glass molds. I wrote my first two blogs were on CPI fused glass jewelry molds, my 3rd blog was was on CPI fused glass button molds, my 4th was textured molds, and my 5th was […]
Spring is here and I’m so ready as evident by this blog. What made me think of it was a good friend of mine was talking about the fused glass garden art I made her a couple years ago. I made it for her because her garden is beautiful and […]
