Glass Trailerwhere stained glass art is made

I’ve been totally slacking off. My birthday is tomorrow and I’ve been trying to push things out of the trailer and get them shipped so I can have the option of just relaxing. A bear paw is somewhere on it’s way to Finland. A few necklace orders are at home and glue is setting on them, so those need to go out. And that wizard is still staring at me. He has been sitting there waiting to be ground down and put together for a few weeks now. That poor guy…

I think the problem with the wizard is that it is the only thing I have going on that isn’t for an order. So it’s always shoved aside for something of a higher priority. Maybe that’s what I’ll have to work on with my birthday time off!

In other news, I finally got around to try and recreate the rainbowish striped dish. This time I went with a candy dish shape and it’s currently in the trailer slumping… I’ll just keep my fingers crossed that it’ll come out all right.  I can’t wait to get home and check on it!

I finally cleared out some of my current projects from the trailer and found time to take photos… or at least try too.  I really need to save up and get a macro lense, it’s not very easy with the one I have right now.  The focal length is pretty large and I feel like I’m standing halfway across the room and zooming in to get a semi decent picture.

I was playing around with some glass and decided to make my friends some pendants.  I made a kiln full and these are the ones they selected as their favorites.  Part of the fun was inviting friends out to the trailer to design their own!  It’s a really simple project that anyone can do.  I precut some blanks for them to decorate and threw some materials at them (figuratively, glass shouldn’t be thrown!) and let them ‘have at it.’

I have more in the kiln right now to give away with some of my recent orders that need to be shipped out.  I’m excited to get back and check them out.  I modified some of the kiln settings, so hopefully it isn’t filled with pendants of crapola.

FINALLY, my sushi dishes are complete.  I kept putting them in the kiln whenever I could fit them in with something else.  It was a project that I knew would eventually be done.  I have a small kiln and only 1 sushi dish mold to work with, so it would going to take a while.

Some of these I just love, some not as much but I really liked the project.  These are what I call the “Let the glass guide you” dishes.  It’s really quite zen if you think about it…. or maybe I’m just full of crap!   For these I took a beautiful piece of glass that had plenty of swirls in it and let those swirls dictate the final design.  Cutting out sections (see what I mean here) without replacing it swill create mis-shaped pieces when they come out of the kiln, but that’s part of their character.  Besides, it provides a nice resting place for your chopsticks.

And that’s it.  Plenty of things in the works and plenty more coming up as orders come in!  Stay tuned.