Finally, something to show for myself

Perhaps I should have thought to mention in advance that I was feverishly preparing to list a few things in the Etsy shop, but I was so busy working on the update that I didn’t get around to it on Friday, when the process started. So here’s some fiber-y eye-candy, with apologies for the delay: [...]

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That mirror, at last

It’s finally back from the exhibition, and ON THE WALL. Cracked slightly in two places due to inexplicable mishap, but not too obviously. I used to have some spare glass of the right color to repair it, but then I foolishly gave it away to someone who was drooling over it  for some random fairies [...]

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So long, and thanks for all the matzo

I only had a year to come up with this. Allowing for the intricacies of lunar year cycles, only about about 350 days in fact, but admittedly it should still have been plenty. And, yes, it did take me 350 days to do. More precisely, 348 days to get round to doing anything, and no [...]

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Glass knitting: crap with potential

So what happened to the experiment with knitted swatches included in glass? Actually, it didn’t work out great. But there were a few reasons for that, and a few hopeful signs, so I’ll have to give it another go. Firstly I think I used yarn that was too thick for best results. And then I [...]

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Cooking with glass

I decided it’s time to make something in glass again. I know I don’t have enough places to sell it, I know sales are down in the bad economic times, I know it’s silly, but – I found me an excuse. I thought I’d at least tidy up my glass room. And as I tidied [...]

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More is less

I think this needed to be added to the frit tutorial. I’ve been thinking about it, and I’m not sure I was quite clear enough before, so here it is, spelled out in the least uncertain of terms: More frit than you can possibly imagine is still less than you think. Quite possibly it is [...]

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Christmas is coming

- and I have seriously stalled on making the decorations. I somehow didn’t get any made over the weekend at all, or any today. I sent off a cheque for the big Christmas fair too, so I am now really and truly committed to doing it. Yikes, help and double-yikes. So here finally are some [...]

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And here’s one I made earlier…

This is the finished peacock made with the fused bits from the other day. I’m pretty happy with it, but I wasn’t until I’d blacked it. I thought I’d hold off for a little and mull it over. After all, once done, it can’t be undone (at least, I don’t think so). In the silvered [...]

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Kelvin disobeys the laws of physics

There is nothing more disturbing than this. Luckily it is unusual to wake up and discover that the laws of physics have been contravened during the night, but believe me, when it does happen, it puts a kink in your day, not to mention the universe. A serious kink not straightened out by the suspicion [...]

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Something completely different

A few months ago, back at the beginning of what we laughingly refer to as the summer, I started work on a project to make a peacock using a combination of tiffany copper foil work and fusing. Then I moved onto other things and forgot about it. But now the glass class at the local [...]

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