Recently I received an email from Laura regarding making a fused glass pendant with her dad’s ashes inside. It’s always such an honor to make custom memory pieces. I always take care and show reverence for each piece I make. Laura and I have collaborated every step of the way. […]
I love talking about other artists especially when they incorporate my fused glass in their work. Jody of Grandview Creations creates amazing wood art, including jewelry. He made several wood findings for me to incorporate my glass. Here are two I used with my glass. They look great with my […]
When creating glass jewelry most of the time it’s made by gluing a fused glass cabochon to a base. Sometime after a lot of wear the glue can fail and the glass will come off. One of my long time customers brought in a couple of her fused glass pieces […]
Something that you may not know is most metals, except for gold or fine silver, tarnish. Most of the time I use a sunshine cloth to keep my jewelry looking new. It cleans gold, silver, brass, copper, and glass. But I had a couple of really tarnished pieces and didn’t […]
This nano bead mold is kind of cool. It makes14 beads at once – 6 round beads, 6 square beads and 2 small beads. I made 2 sets. I need to remember to add a bit more glass. Here are the glass beads I made with the mold I stacked […]
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. […]
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 […]
I love creating fused glass artwork. One of the things I focused on this month was fused glass snaps. I have three different sizes; large, medium, and small. This first picture shows my large snaps. Some are round but I also have a few that are different shapes. I like […]
The Mountain Arts Festival is coming up, August 4-5 and I will be having a booth to show off my beautiful Fused Glass Artwork. I thought I’d show some of my fused glass. Fused glass Essential Oil pendants and car fresheners. Fused Glass bookmarks and […]
Everything I do involves glass. Recently I took two webinars about concrete jewelry (Curious Mondo). They actually used different concrete. One is more concrete looking grey speckled and one is white. Of course when I use another media it all revolves around how I can use it with glass. The […]
So not only did my old friends come by I met some new ones as well. Julie came in wanting to match the teal in her shirt with a pendant. Within 2 minutes we found 2 fused glass pendants, 1 teal which matched her shirt perfectly and a red one […]
During my August show, one of my long time customers had a request. She wanted some of my fused glass earrings changed from posts and dangles to clip-on earrings. So I did it. I based it on whether the earrings were posts or dangles. If they were posts I put […]
July’s Fused Glass Newsletter’s focus is in preparation for my glass shows. My first show is in August in Woodland Park. If there is something you’d like me to bring to my Shows or to put on my websites please let me know. So for this blog I thought I’d […]
All year I have been focusing on the myriad of ways I learn new fused glass techniques; January’s Newsletter focused on the techniques I learned from a class I took from Patty Gray, February’s Newsletter focused on fused glass techniques I learned in classes I took from Tanya Veit, March’s […]
