With my Fall / Christmas shows coming up I thought I’d make some holiday fused glass pieces. Starting with Halloween. My little ghost was such a cutie. I need to make another one because he’s so sweet and now has a new home. I also […]
In the past I have made fused glass wine charms, albeit I haven’t brought them to a show in a while. I have holiday ones including Christmas, Halloween and New Years. However, during the woodland park show two lovely ladies walked into my […]
I would like to thank all of those who came out to visit me at the Woodland Park’s Mountain Arts. This was the first one of my season and I just really enjoy seeing my customers. It’s been since December and I really enjoy catching up with them. For those […]
It’s interesting I normally do 3 or 4 commercial orders a year, but this year I’ve had 4 within the first 6 months. I have a new fused glass commercial order for 200 soap dishes. I’ve made these before and I like them, They are perfect, plus soap dishes are […]
In my last blog I talked about all the glass I purchased over the years. As I was walking around my house I also other glass I bought made. I have quite a bit so I may have to break it down into different categories. First, functional pieces. First in […]
I promised to keep ya’ll informed regarding my progress on my big order for the hotel in Florida. As I’ll discuss later in June’s newsletter I had a business trip to Germany which would have put me severely behind in my progress. So I decided to teach my husband […]
As I mentioned in my April Newsletter, I’ve been working on a 400 plate order for a fabulous hotel and Restaurant in Florida. Well I shipped my first portion of the order. I can not tell you how nervous I was. This is one of the toughest custom orders I’ve […]
Normally I sell my fused glass arts and craft shows during the year. About 7 total through out the year however, I also have different sites including Etsy , Artfire and of course my website. I must admit I’m horrible about updating my websites because when I’m home I want […]
I’ve blogged about Mica before and even wrote a DYK about it. I love mica, it’s a mineral and actually comes in a rock form but most people think of it as a powder. Mica is used in cosmetics and electrical components. For these pieces I used mica (gold, copper, […]
As I’ve mentioned recently I’ve had a lot of custom fused glass orders. Here is another custom fused glass order I finished recently. I really like these spoon-rests. I made 12 fused glass spoon-rests for a great customer of mine. […]
Last month I receive a request to make some purple fused glass mushrooms for a great customer of mine. I made these with a screen-melt technique, which is one of my favorite techniques. This first picture is trying out the recycled glass bottoms. I like them, but I thought sandblasting […]
In addition, to the large fused glass production order I’ll talk about in this month’s newsletter “Did You Know” over the last three months I had several other production orders. The first one was soap dishes for a hotel in California. They have ordered from me several times and I […]
Each time I fire my kiln I try to put extra little fused glass pieces in the kiln so I have a full kiln. I thought I’d show you some. This first one is a refire of a beautiful piece with a decal I love the glass as well as […]
In February I took a glass mosaic class at Full Spectrum in Colorado Springs. This month I decided I’d take another glass mosaic class and this time I bought a friend. Last time it was just tempered glass. This one actually included porcelain. Lela and I had a great time. […]
