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Fused Glass, Home Decor

Fused Glass Ikebana Vase

Fused Glass Ikebana Vase

When I was in Japan I took a flower arranging class called Ikebana. I was taught the flowers are at three levels, Heaven, mankind, and earth. I don’t have a lot of flowers but I thought I’d show off my new fused glass Ikebana Vase. The fused glass is a […]

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Accessories, Fused Glass, Jewelry

Dichroic Etched Fused Glass

Dichroic Etched Fused Glass

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. […]

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Accessories, Fused Glass, Home Decor, Jewelry

Fused Glass Hearts

Fused Glass Hearts

In keeping with Valentine’s Day. I made some more fused glass hearts. These are all hand cut. I have multiple colors including dichroic. These two fused glass hearts are very large and could make great poker guards. I also made small fused glass dishes all with hearts. The first one […]

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Art, Custom, Fused Glass

Displaying Fused Glass

Displaying Fused Glass

A good friend of mine sent me a picture of three of the fused glass art sculptures she bought from me last year. I love seeing how people display my fused glass artwork. In the picture below you can see my friend has two fused glass mushroom lights, my sun […]

by × January 25, 2019 × 0 comments

Fused Glass, Fused glass kit, Home Decor

Fused Glass Pebble Kits

Fused Glass Pebble Kits

I love fused glass pebbles or dots whatever you want to call them. They are so pretty and relatively easy to make, I make them all the time. I use them on mirrors, frames, as embellishments, to name a few. Anyway when I was making my most recent pieces I […]

by × January 22, 2019 × 0 comments

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Fused Glass Night Lights

Fused Glass Night Lights

This month I’ve made several new fused glass night lights and I thought I’d show them off. These first ones are made with iridized glass, ironically I made flowers. I also use both switch lights and sensor switch. I love my nightlights they are such pieces of art. These two […]

by × January 22, 2019 × 2 comments

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Autumn Fused glass

Autumn Fused glass

One of my goals for this year is to use one of my molds a month. I’ve had this wonderful mold that I’ve never used. I had this great piece of organic clear glass and decided the two were made for each other. In addition to making this fused glass […]

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Art, Blog, Custom, Fused Glass, Holiday Messages, Jewelry

Fused Glass for Valentines day

Fused Glass for Valentines day

First as I mentioned in my Resolution / Goals blog I want to try to use not only my glass but my findings I’ve been hoarding (I mean saving). I always say everything looks better with glass. These little cases are actually mirrors. I always have little fused glass dots […]

by × January 21, 2019 × 0 comments

Fused Glass, Holiday Messages, Home Decor

Happy New Year - Glass goals

Happy New Year – Glass goals

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 […]

by × January 3, 2019 × 0 comments

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Enamel fused glass tests

Enamel fused glass tests

In preparation for my large Kokopelli I did some tests. This is the first piece I made in preparation. I used photo resist, sandblasted, then applied the enamel. It looked a bit light but I thought it was because it was on clear glass. I like to make little dishes […]

by × December 26, 2018 × 0 comments

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Largest Fused Glass Artwork

Largest Fused Glass Artwork

I was asked to make a custom kokopelli in glass a few months ago. It turned out to be my biggest piece I’ve ever made 16×24 inches. It was also pretty challenging and tough piece to make. I wanted to do it as a screen print but the only resist […]

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Art, Family, Fused Glass, Home Decor

Fused Glass Clock with interchangeable pictures

Fused Glass Clock with interchangeable pictures

I’ve blogged about my beautiful granddaughter several times. She is about to turn 1 year old. To celebrate her birthday I made my son a fused glass clock with 4 pictures of Mzia. The cool thing is the pictures can be changed out. They are magnetic so when they want […]

by × December 19, 2018 × 0 comments

Art, Blog, Mosaic

Lighted Block Mosaic

Lighted Block Mosaic

I’ve taken several glass mosaic from a wonderful teacher here in Colorado Springs. Recently I took another mosaic class from Cathy, a lighted block mosaic. I’ve really grown to enjoy mosaics and I think the lighted block mosaic is my favorite. I chose to make a winter scene instead of […]

by × December 19, 2018 × 0 comments

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Red and White Iridized Bowls

Red and White Iridized Bowls

During my Doherty Craft Show I was asked to make a red and white iridized bowl but for the life of me I can’t remember her name.  If you wanted me to make you a red and white bowl please email me. I actually made two fused glass bowls for […]

by × December 19, 2018 × 0 comments