Concentrating on My Other Two Blogs

To cut back on some of the things that I am doing right now, I have decided to temporarily stop posting to this blog.

I have had my other glass blog since Jan. 2007 and have lots of posts about my Glass Art. My other Glass Blog has basically the same theme as this one. It is about my day to day life as a Fused Glass Artist. I post pictures of my Glass Art and discuss how I made it.

Be sure to visit my other glass blog at http://glassart.wordpress.com.

I recently added a blog inside of my website. The link to that blog is http://www.mastersglassart.com/blog328262.html. On this blog I will post my Newsletters, upcoming Art Festivals and other things related to my website.

While you are at this blog, be sure to check out the rest of my website www.mastersglassart.com.

See you at my other blogs!!!

Christine


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Does Anyone Read This Blog?

Some of you may know that I have three blogs. I just added an internal blog in my website. All my blogs have the same subject: my glass projects from day to day.

I am a bit overwhelmed with three blogs.

Let me know what you think about eliminating one of my blogs.

Does anybody read this blog? Do you read my other blogs?

Christine

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Elegant Yellow Transluscent Candle Bridge

I have been so busy with the Art Festival last weekend. Before the Festival I was making glass and getting ready to do the show by myself by setting up everything by myself. Now, after the Festival, I am resting up and unpacking. The Festival was a lot of work, but I really enjoyed it.

I did fairly well at the Festival. I grossed the most I have ever done on any other Craft Fair. However, I'm not rich by any means :)

I loved talking to the people who came up to my booth to look at my Glass Art.

The yellow candle bridge at the top of this post is one item I sold for $22. I just made it a week ago. Luckily, I got a photo of it. The last four glass pieces I did before the show, I didn't get a chance to take a photo and one of the large plates sold at the Festival!! I'm not complaining, but I like to have photos of all my glass.

Anyway, about this yellow candle bridge, it is a pretty new mold for me and I have made four or five different colors and decorations. It's hard to see what I did with the black stringers, but I had a total of five stringers. I bent three of them in a candle flame in different configurations. I just tried this technique for this piece. I learned about the technique on www.warmglass.com. All I did was hold the stringer in the flame for 10 seconds and then quickly bend it as far as I wanted to. It was very easy and I didn't break any of them. One stringer has one bend and the other two have two or three bends. I know that I will be trying this again on other glass pieces.

Christine

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Art and Music Festival in Ashland, Oregon

I have a booth for the MidSummer's Dream -- Ashland's Premier Art & Music Festival. It's located in Ashland, Oregon on June 16 and 17. If you live in the area, be sure to stop by my booth!!

I have been very busy making glass for this Festival. We bought some new molds and a bunch of glass a couple of months ago, so I have been playing around with all my new toys!

Here is a photo of a small fluted bowl that I recently made. I fused two layers of black iridized glass and then I slumped it into the fluted bowl mold. I have been making a wide variety of glass art and have been having so much fun!

Keep checking out my website, www.mastersglassart.com, for new glass art I will be adding after the Festival (that is, if I don't sell everything :) ).

Check out my NEW BLOG, which is located in my website. The link is:
http://www.mastersglassart.com/blog328262.html

Christine -- Glass Artist

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Wine Bottle Spoon Rest

I bought a new mold a few weeks ago, so I could slump/fuse wine bottles for spoon rests. I love how this mold slumps a wine bottle. The neck is lifted up from the surface, so it is easy to grab and move. The middle part of the bottle makes a nice bowl shape -- the sides are raised up.

This wine bottle doesn't have to be a spoon rest. There are so many other uses, such as serving appetizers or any type of food, or it can hold any small trinkets or keys or jewelry. It also looks good on a stove or counter top.

Christine

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Glass Vase with Red Lace Design

I finished this Glass Vase a couple of days ago. I really love this piece. It is 6 1/2" high and 7" wide at the top. I just love the way the red glass lace moved with the glass and spread it out. I used a drop ring mold, the same one that I used in the Tutorial that I posted a few days ago. The only difference is that I propped it up 6" instead of 4."

Christine

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Cute Glass Butterfly Pin

Isn't this glass butterfly so cute? I bought a butterfly mold that is "V" shaped, a very wide V. I slumped this glass butterfly using the butterfly mold to give it some dimension. It is hard to see the dimension in this photo, but there really is just a little bit there!

Christine

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