A Perfect Blood by Kim Harrison This is the second-to-latest book in Kim Harrison’s Hollows series, featuring the redheaded witch Rachel Morgan and her cast of friends and enemies. I strongly suspect that if you haven’t been following along the whole time, you’ll be hopelessly lost, so don’t try to pick this up mid-series. This …
Apr 22
Suckbowl
This bowl is called “suckbowl” not because of its quality but because of how it’s made. David demonstrated it, and I knew I had to try it out. You start by applying color around a bubble, then blow the bubble into as big a sphere as you can manage. Getting it nice and hot, you …
Apr 22
Blueline Cup
I made this blue because one of my goals in this class was to create a birthday present for a good friend of mine, and he said he likes the color blue. To make this, I rolled the bubble in frit, and after it was melted it in, I blew it into an optics mold. …
Apr 15
Redline Cup
I’ve had bad luck with little red cups. I had one that I made last year that I gave away to a friend, so I wanted to make a new one to replace it. I made one the first day, and it looked pretty good, but it fell off the punti because I pushed too …
Apr 10
Book Review: Collision Course
Collision Course: The Classic Story of the Collision of the Andrea Doria & the Stockholm by Alvin Moscow If you’re older than, say, 65, you might remember where you were when the Stockholm crashed into the Andrea Doria. I’m considerably younger than that, and had never heard of this boat crash, which apparently riveted the …