Blue Engobed Cup

This was the second cup I made, right after the twice green cup. Another student did a technique which I believe is called engobing, where you cover a piece with a layer of colored glass. When you first mash the hot glass on, it looks a little like one of those frowning bad guys that …

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E-Book Week!

I’ve got some promotions over at  Smashwords, if you want to get some of my books for free or cheap, this week only. Get copies for your kindle, nook, kobo, sony, ipad or any other e-reader, including PDF. Seeing Things — Free until 3/8! Use Coupon Code REW75 Treemaker — 50% off until 3/8! Use Coupon …

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Twice Green Cup

Just started a new glass blowing class. I couldn’t get into the shorter weeknight one I usually take, and am in a longer one on the weekends. The other women in class far surpassed me in skill. This is good, in that they will likely inspire me to strethc myself, but bad, in that it’s …

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Book Review – Second Glance

Second Glance by Jodi Picoult I’d never head of Jodi Picoult, and only got this book because a secondhand copy was selling at the library for too cheap to pass up, so it surprised me that two separate people told me how much they loved her as an author when they spied the book cover. …

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Book Review – The Story of Doctor Doolittle

The Story of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting I got this as a free audiobook, and it was prefaced by a foreword from someone letting me know that what I was about to read was the pinnacle of children’s literature, much better than most of the trash out there, and was, in fact, a work …

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