Recycle/Reuse/Upcycle

The Blue cobalt dish was just completed. I turned a blue cobalt water bottle into a beautiful amazing dish. The dish is cleaned,sanitized,fused,slumped,etched and wire wrapped with beads. I LOVE it! Let me know what you think.

Blue Bird Feeder

Here are pictures from the bird feeder I started last week. Its Nearly complete. I just have to add the stand! Love the Blue Glass! It turned out perfect.

New Glass Product!.......Fused Fish

The fish are finally finished. Remember I blogged about these fish a week ago. They were hand cut. Kiln fired.Here are before and after pictures.

Hand cut glass fish before the kiln!

10 hrs later...After the kiln!

 And finally the finished product:  

This suncatcher has a stainless steel chain to hang from.

It has 3 blue glass fish fused with fish hooks and red and white beads hanging by fishing line, from part of an up-cycled fishing pole! It can hang from a shepherds hook in the garden or in a window. It is 14" wide and 14" long + the chain.

Treasuries

My glass was just added to 3 new Treasuries today. Here is one. The other two are on my Treasuries page. Take a look the items listed in them are beautiful.

Glory-of-the-snow blue

Glory of the Snow is one of the first Spring flowers to blossom. Here is my Glory of the snow done in fused glass.
It measures 10" x 6".
I will be making it into a sun catcher. More pics to come....

Sun Catcher

 These are the blue glass fish that I have cut by hand.

 Prior to being placed in the kiln. I also fused fish hooks in them.

This is how they look after being baked in the kiln.

 I Love these little fish! I will be hanging them by fishing line.

Finally Friday! Keeping up

Ill be posting my fused glass photos over the weekend but I needed a day to catch up with things. I will be giving some attention to my Etsy teams and making some treasuries, working on my shop, websites.



Creating handmade items has been a very rewarding experience for me. Almost therapeutic. I enjoy taking that piece of glass and creating wonderful glass gifts through fusing, painting, and cold-working. Ive been crafting for a long time, like most, but i also would like to create some gifts of different materials. Any ideas for creative items that you would like to give as gifts? I have a ton of ideas but if anyone wants to share some let me know.

Thirsty Thursday Drinking glasses

These are the glasses I will be cold working in the sandblast cabinet. Creating new designs on them.
The green shot glasses will be shamrock shots. Getting ready for St. Patrick's day.



I will etch fish on to the martini glass.

Glass Fish Ready for the Kiln

These are blue glass fish I cut yesterday and they will probably spend 7-8 hours baking in the kiln today.

Thirsty Thursday

Thirsty Thursday

OK Wake n Bake Wednesday didn’t work out how it was planned as things rarely do. Life can sometimes put these little bumps in the road. No problem. I did as much glass creating as I could yesterday and called it a day.

I did finish up a couple orders and I did get the sun catcher drawn yesterday. I also cut out little fish from blue glass. The fish will be part of the hanging glass on the sun catcher. The little fish will be in the kiln today. I will be fusing trotline clips in them for easier hanging. That will be cute, fish hanging from the trotline clips with fishing line attached.

While the blue glass fish are in the kiln today, I will be cold working glassware for THIRSTY Thursday creating new designs for our favorite drinks. I plan to make some shamrock shots and something with martini glasses. I kind of like the fish theme, I’m a Pisces, maybe I’ll continue with that.

Making sun catchers today

Im making fused glass sun catchers today. I will need to draw the sun catcher on paper then start on getting the glass cut.

Fused Blue Glass

Here is the bird feeder at the end of the slumping cycle. The first two pictures were taken when the glass is still in the kiln. The white circle around the glass is the drop ring mold. The glass slumps through the hole.



These next two pictures are of the glass out of the kiln. It came out perfect. Its a shallow dish perfect size for small birds to feed out of now I just need to
add the hook ground stake to it.

Fused glass bird feeder

This is the bird feeder I started fusing. its flat now but the next step will be too slump the glass through a drop ring mold. I have to be careful not to slump too far or the glass can hit the floor of the kiln. Ill have to watch the glass closely.

Creating the bird feeder...Blue Glass

This is my glass about to go in the kiln to create my bird feeder.
I'm using blue glass with some colorful stringer.
I cut the blue and clear into a circle. It fuses first then will be slumped.