Reactions & New Mold

      

I have really enjoyed playing with reactive glass. Above is the latest reactive dish slumped into a subtle curved shape.

I splurged this week and purchased a new glass slumping mold - a ball bowl.

      

I love the shape and have been waiting to slump this glass into a shape, but didn't have a mold large enough.

~ Julie

Tonight (three weeks later)

Okay, so this post is a bit later than I thought it might be three weeks ago.

darn

A quick update:

The Day Lilies have finished blooming for the year.

 (I'm not sure where the small frogs are taking their meals these days;-)

A very short vacation with a bit of wine tasting. 

I have successfully used my big kiln.

(success is a good thing)

Small, dotted dish.

A slump gone wonky.

It might be salvaged if used as a ring holder.

??

Full steam into September . . . 

Cooler nights.

Kids moved to college = quieter house.

New glass in the kiln.

~ Julz

:-) Amber Bowl

August brought a lot of work hours and a trip to the Rocky Mts, but not much glassing.

The mountains were breath-taking.

We did accomplish some short hikes and sightseeing.

Amber bowl w/ red embellishments:

Prior to its first fuse (full fuse) for my amber bowl w/ red embellishments.

This morning - I am slumping over a ss bowl mold that has been kiln washed.

Note: my fail in cutting a circle . . . one side broke:-( 

I really wanted the bowl to be this size, so I am trying to use the broken circle. 

In the top photo you can see my attempt to hide the broken piece by placing clear frit over the seam. In the bottom photo you can see that I failed because the seam where the glass broke can still be seen. 

I am always learning and being humbled by the glass.

~ Julz

new projects

A few new projects in the works -

I have decided that I need to keep my soldering skills honed otherwise when I do a stained glass project the re-learning time kills the project and my creativeness (is that a word?).

Therefore I need solder more than once every 4 years.    :-)

I fused some flowers in clear glass squares for the center pieces in this stained glass panel. I am in the process of designing the panel. I hope the idea in my head - makes it to paper and then glass.

 

In the kiln now is a fuchsia colored square dish that is slumping. I used some subtle iridescent glass elements. I hope this mold that I am slumping over works; I will know in a few short hours.

I am enjoying time for creating glass today. Happy Saturday!

~ Julz

A month later

Wow - I can't believe that my last post to this blog was over a month ago.
darn

I really wanted to post during that month, but ???

Well - really no good excuses. Although not much glass happened in the last month.

Here is what I just pulled from the kiln -


OMG - it's been so long my blog didn't even want to upload pics, but I persevered to a successful conclusion.  :-)


This is a small dish that I fused and then slumped over a new stainless steal mold that I picked up last month at Ikea. Ya gotta love cheap molds.

Same bowl - upside down.

The good news is that my kiln is warm again tonight. Yea!

~ Julz

Week's work -

Another slow week and many days of a cold kiln.
The only good news was because of a bad cold I had a bit of down time in front of the computer and found some new glass techniques I want to try.

This is a small dish I finished at the beginning of the week.

I wanted raised dots for texture.

Not functional.

Oh well.

I like it.

This oval dish is slumping into the mold now. (Pict taken just prior to closing the kiln lid)

Again, my attempt at some elevated dots for some texture.

Hope it slumps well.

:-)

Happy Friday!

~ Julz

Adventurine Green Holidays

Adventurine Green - a new experience for me.

This pic doesn't do justice to the depth of the sparkle - very nice. I have another in the works -

Slumping this one w/ a black side tonight. We will see if I can give these away w/ some homemade chocolate or gift cards. :-)

~ Julz