Happy New Year 2019! Every year I do a review of my glass activities I accomplished during the previous year. 2018 was a great year for me — family, professionally, and in glass. As far as my family life; my daughter is still doing great in college, my granddaughter […]
Just finished up a custom order for fused glass flower sculptures. I’ve made several fused glass flowers before but what makes these different is they are meant to hang them on the wall. I spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to hang them and even got advise […]
I have never been a big winter person. So I’m excited about starting to get ready for spring. I made some fused glass flowers a while back but never had a chance to finish them. In preparation for Spring I decided to finish them and I’m so glad I did. […]
Happy Mother’s day! Mother’s day is Sunday and I wanted to remind everyone what a great gift fused glass makes for mom’s any day of the year. One of my first youtube videos was showing off great gifts for mom’s. A few more beautiful fused glass pieces I’d like to […]
One of my New Years goals for my fused glass is I have decided to revisit some of my favorite techniques from some of the classes I’ve taken. In Nov 2015, I took a 3 day fusing class with Patty Gray in Denver, Colorado with my good friend Pam. I […]
I love fused glass and one of the things I enjoy about glass is you can make it into so many things. One of my favorite techniques is called kiln carving or bas relief. One way to do that is to put the glass on a textured mold and it […]
As those who follow my fused glass newsletter know I love fused glass. As I’ve said a thousand times Glass is so versatile and you can make anything with it! Recently I bought some amazing molds, molds that make flowers! So I filled my kiln with them and tried them […]
Yep you read that right this blog is about my brand new fused glass garden mushrooms. I watched this video on how to make fused glass mushrooms. Luckily for me I had several molds that would work. The artist gave really great directions and so I used a similar process […]
Easter is just around the corner so I thought I’d show some options for Easter Fused Glass Pendants. I like these because some are little Easter angels, some are bunnies. I also have some beautiful Fused Glass Religious pendants. […]
The first full week of May brought a lot of rain for Colorado Springs. And even though the saying goes “April showers bring May flowers” after watching Cara’s video (in my May fused glass review) I thought I’d make […]
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 […]
March’s Fresh From the Kiln is based on this month’s fused glass review. I wrote a my fused glass review blog about one of Webinar Wednesday’s club Fused Glass Artist’s Cara. I enjoy her videos. But the video I blogged about […]
Book Review – Fused Glass Flowers by Creative Paradise I love to learn about fused glass whether it is through classes, eBooks, or actual books. I also like trying new products therefore, I thought I would write a few product […]
In some of my Fused Glass work you may see the words Millefiori or Murrine and you may not know what they are so I thought I’d write a blog about both. The Millefiori is an ancient technique (first appeared in the […]
