Dec 16
I took a short one-day workshop at the Mesa Art Center to make these glass pumpkins. They are basically just like ornaments, except we used an optics mold for both the bit and the base. I didn’t really have a pressing need for pumpkin ornaments, but I had really missed hotshop. I hope I can …
Nov 22
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
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
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
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 …
