New project

The new year brought a new office in an old day job. Not a choice, but a necessity due to fire damage in an old building that housed my old office. Arg. The new office is a much smaller space with no windows to the outside and it has a door window into a very public hall. I have designed a stained glass piece that will cover this door window and still allow light through.

Light, but not a full view of me working.

I also wanted to use these fused circles that I made a long time ago.

I have worked this weekend on getting it soldered.

My next challenge will be how to get it to stay securely in place without damaging the office door.

~ Julz

Purple flower magnet.

~ Julz

learning new things

Blogger session at a conference.
Learning new things.
:-)

~ Julz

Decisions

I created some new cabs or features for future work.
Now I'm having the grand problem of deciding what to do with them.

What a magnificent problem to have on this rainy, last day of the month.

Pictures taken w/ iPad. Yes, I finally figured out how to get them to the blog.

~ Julz

New slump mold

Red (even though it looks maroon in these pictures) tray - 

Happy Glassing

October.

How did that happen?

I had the opportunity to work all morning on glass. It feels luxurious. I finished cleaning some cabs and completely loaded the large kiln with blanks for slumping. My husband took my camera when he went hunting today, so no pictures because I can't figure out how to get the pictures off this iPad and into a blog post.

Darn.

Cleaning the yard and garden this afternoon.

It is always good to have a day off in the middle of the week. Today has been sanity restoring.

~ Julz

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

bad with the good

Okay - the new kiln and the old kiln proved to be challenging recently.

I fused blanks in each of them and experienced huge bubbles. Double yuck and ruined glass.
I am not sure if the bubble problem was my schedule - which I changed, or the fact that I moved my old kiln when the new kiln arrived and I may need to do some better leveling.

Discouraging.

My next fire in the new big kiln was just a recycled glass blank for a bowl slump. It turned out fine. I'll post pics after the slump tonight.

My small kiln did a great job with a new glass quilt.

Glass quilt on table.

Glass quilt in window.

It always amazes me how the glass colors change depending on how a piece is lit. I wanted to see if glass quilts are too heavy to hang in a window. I drilled holes and threaded a ribbon for hanging. I really like to see the depth of glass and hanging a piece in a window with bright sunlight shining through it is a great way to show off a piece. (I will try it in a carpeted room in case it falls.)

~ Julz