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Fused Glass e-books - bubbles

Fused Glass e-books – bubbles

For March I’m focusing on fused glass e-books from Helios studios.  As I mentioned in my last blog, they have 17 e-books albeit, I’ll be focusing on 12 e-books that I’ve purchased and love.  The second fused glass e-book I want to talk about is his fused glass bubbles e-book.   […]

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Fused Glass Techniques from E-books - Drop vase

Fused Glass Techniques from E-books – Drop vase

For those of you who follow my fused glass blogs you know that this year I’m focusing on fused glass techniques I’ve learned over the years. One of my favorite ways to learn new fused glass techniques, other than classes of course, is e-books. The reason is because it cost […]

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Fused glass - St Patrick's Day and Easter

Fused glass – St Patrick’s Day and Easter

I thought I’d do a quick post about some of my fused glass St Patrick’s day and Easter pendants. Of course any fused pendant can be be changed into a bookmark or key chain I can make a variety of fused glass pieces with various holiday decals including St. Patrick’s […]

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Follow-up to January and February Fused Glass projects

Follow-up to January and February Fused Glass projects

In January I wrote blogs about my class with Patty Gray and I wrote about my bubble soap dishes that I couldn’t find well I found them in the oddest place.  I really like this technique! The white one on the right is the jaws at the top.     […]

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Fused Glass - 1st Crackle dish

Fused Glass – 1st Crackle dish

I’ve been focusing on fused glass techniques I learned from Tanya. One technique I learned from her was the crackle technique. As you know the father of crackle is Bob Leatherbarrow, however the first time I tried it was with Tanya, she taught it with jewelry then she taught it […]

by × February 19, 2017 × 0 comments

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Fused Glass - Flash glass and Sandblast

Fused Glass – Flash glass and Sandblast

In the first big fused glass boot camp I took with Tanya she taught us sandblasting.  The owl is still one of my favorite pieces that I made. She made us do it as homework and it took us all week, but I love it!! I keep it in my […]

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New Fused Glass Votives

New Fused Glass Votives

I have been busy this month revisiting old fused glass techniques.  However, I had some fused glass bowls I didn’t like all that much.  For anyone who comes to my shows or reads my blogs know that if I don’t like a fused glass piece that I made then I […]

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Fused Glass Focus Technique - Kiln Carve

Fused Glass Focus Technique – Kiln Carve

Last month I focused on fused glass techniques I learned from a Patty Gray class I took. For this month I’m going to focus on some fused glass techniques I learned from Tanya Veit from AAE Glass. I’ve written about Tanya many many times. The first time I met Tanya […]

by × February 6, 2017 × 0 comments

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Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day

Valentine’s day is just around the corner and I thought I’d post a few pictures of some fused glass options for Valentines ‘day.                 As I was looking for pictures of some appropriate fused glass Fused Glass jewelry I ran across an old […]

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Fused Glass Windows

Fused Glass Windows

This month I am focusing on a  class  I took with Patty Gray. I really enjoyed the class and one of my favor  fused glass techniques she taught us is what I like to refer to as windows.   When my son was around 16 he was in an AP […]

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Fused Glass Jaws

Fused Glass Jaws

As you know my blogs for January are focusing on my fused glass class with Patty Gray. As with the other fused glass technique I’ve written about this month I love this technique. Patty calls it jaws and I really like it. It’s fun and easy and I think it’s […]

by × January 21, 2017 × 0 comments

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Monthly Fused glass Home Shows

Monthly Fused glass Home Shows

So last week I got an email from Teresa the winner of the Rockledge ranch arts show. She wanted to chose snaps for her prize, which as you know I don’t have on my websites. So she came by today to chose her prize and she got some additional fused […]

by × January 9, 2017 × 0 comments

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Fused Glass Snaps not just jewelry anymore!

Fused Glass Snaps not just jewelry anymore!

During one of my shows two of my friends (that love my fused glass snaps) said it would be nice if I could add snaps to hats. They had seen them before and thought it would be nice to add the snaps to other things besides jewelry. So I bought […]

by × January 6, 2017 × 0 comments

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Happy New Years! - 2017 is going to be a great year for fused glass!

Happy New Years! – 2017 is going to be a great year for fused glass!

Happy New Years! Every year I try to set goals for my fused glass. I also review my goals from last year to see how I did. I’m looking forward to this year and learning new techniques.             2016 was a great year for me […]

by × January 2, 2017 × 0 comments