Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday. It’s the day that we bring out tasteless old-fashioned recipes to go along with the tasteless old-fashioned gender roles. This year, I am most thankful for my mother, who has offered to host. Thanks Mom!
Nov 22
Number Plaque
Here’s the finished number plaque that I made the poppy tiles for (shown in an earlier post). I cut the background green tiles out of stained glass, with the help of my daughters (since ones hand hurts after cutting too many tiles, I needed help.) Cutting the background tiles was rather time-consuming, but it saves …
Nov 20
Practice Beads
Since I’d made all kinds of green and pink and lavender radially symmetrical canes for the floral beads, and I didn’t want to make any more floral beads, I used up the canes and practiced placing dots on these clear glass forms. I really like the way dots can look when they’re accurately placed. One …
Nov 18
Lavender Floral Bead
This is what the lampworking workshop I took in August was designed to teach. You can get very pretty beads if you are good at this technique. I’m not so interested in pretty, so I only made this one.
Nov 16
Black Floral Beads
I took a class in lampworking that was to teach this floral technique. It makes very girly, feminine, frilly beads. I soon figured out that while the techniques were interesting (making a simple radially symmetrical cane and then using it to add details), I didn’t like the way the beads looked. Still, I thought I ought to …