Got out of my rut for the time being.

It had been three weeks since I put any glass in my kiln, until a couple of days ago. I went to my basement to grind some edges off some glass so I could drape them over a mold and get some small candle holders. The next day I put them in my kiln for firing and the next day I had three cute candle holders.

When I was in my work area, I also designed, cut and ground the glass for two pendants. I received two custom orders, each one for a pendant. When I get the dichroic glass for the other custom order, then I can make that pendant. Since I have a large ceramic kiln, I like to make a whole slew of pendants, enough to fit the kiln shelf, before I fuse them. I like to conserve whenever I can.

So, I will be busy for awhile, making more pendants!! I don't mind, this is what I love to do!! This will give me a little boost every day to make a few pendants.

Christine

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I Sold A Bowl Yesterday!! Well, actually, two!!

I went over to a friend's house yesterday to have tea and show her some of my glass art, mostly glass candle holders. We had a nice chat, I tried a new flavor of tea--chocolate hazelnut (I didn't know there was a chocolate tea? I am a chocolaholic and it was really good!).

After she looked at all my glass items, she quickly fell in love with a medium-sized bowl that I named Peppermint Candy. Originally, she was looking for something for a gift for a friend of hers, but she loved the bowl so much, she asked me to make another one for her!!

I love it when people find the perfect gift for someone or a gift for themselves. I don't know how to explain it, but it makes me happy that I am able to make a piece of glass that someone else wants to have for themselves. I am always a little sad to see my glass pieces leave my possession.

Christine

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A New Technique I Learned About

I was browsing the Warm Glass Forum, www.warmglass.com, the other day and saw a picture of a really cool vase made out of stringers, yes just stringers, no sheets of glass. The more I learned how these stringer vases are made, the more impressed I became.

First, they are tedious and take a long time to set up. You have to line up a whole bunch of stringers on the kiln shelf into the shape that you want. Then you tack fuse it. Then you do it again. Depending on the type of project, you do it a total of four times.

Then you stack the layers, alternating the directions, thus giving a basketweave pattern. Then you need to tack fuse the layers together. Then you slump or drape it in your desired mold.

I plan on giving this one a try, especially because I love baskets and weave my own baskets, so I love the pattern.

Check out www.warmglass.com for more in-depth directions on this technique.

Happy Fusing!

Christine

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Back from a short vacation

Here I am in our garage taking a candle holder out of our kiln.

My husband and I just got back from celebrating our 15 anniversary!! We just went away for two nights and just relaxed and enjoyed each others company.

There was a cold spell and our water line had froze, so we don't have any water and we don't know how we can speed along the unthawing, since it isn't getting above freezing.

The earrings that I fire polished turned out great! Now I need to put them together and put pictures on our website. I need to make some candle holders by draping some scrap glass over a ceramic cone mold. I hope to do that tomorrow or the next day.

All for now!

Christine

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Hello everyone!

This is my first experience with my own blog website! I am looking forward to sharing my daily or weekly glass work with you. I will also tell you more about myself and how I got started with working with glass!

Today, I put some earrings into my kiln to fire polish the places that were buffed. There were some sharp points due to putting kiln paper inside the wire loops in the first firing, so the glass wouldn't fill them in.

I also put two pendants in there, too. They are both experiments. One of them has two layers of clear glass with clear dichroic stringers fused into them in a previous firing. The other pendant has a clear bottom, a white top and 3 black iridized stripes across the white glass. I only want to tack fuse the layers.

Now, I just need to wait until tomorrow to see how everything turned out.

Have a great day!
Christine

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