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Mother's Day is coming up and I had a thought - yet again. I've been trying to figure out how to create discounts for goods in my Etsy store and I finally figured it out. So, for everyone who follows me on my blog or any of my social media sites, I am going to give you a discount. If you enter MOTHE

The melt pot that formed the glass for this bowl is quickly becoming my favorite! The way the glass flows out of this melt pot creates a bowl with a unique quadrant pattern that I really love. For this bowl, I chose a combination of clear, blue, yellow, and green glass in transparent, opaque, and ir

The kiln is cooling down and the pieces I want to put in the kiln next are ready to go, so I'm reading a bit during my studio time today. I happen to be reading the book "How to Sell Your Way Through Life" by Napoleon Hill. I've been in the business of doing business all my life, and yet never consi

This bowl came out of the kiln this morning. I used a copper mesh flourish in the center of this bowl and it echoes the shape of the heart very nicely.  The bottom layer of glass is a cranberry red, white, and light pink streaky glass and the top sheet has dark green stringers laid into it.  I like

This quick video shows how one artist creates a fused and draped sunflower lampshade from start to finish. It is an incredible amount of work to cut and place all of the sunflower parts, then both glue it together and create shading in the piece with the frit.  Although the audio is pretty silly, I

This quick video shows how one artist creates a fused and draped sunflower lampshade from start to finish. It is an incredible amount of work to cut and place all of the sunflower parts, then both glue it together and create shading in the piece with the frit.  Although the audio is pretty silly, I

I made another one of my tie dye bowls a few weeks back. This time I used a different pot to melt the scrap glass. Instead of having three rectangular holes radiating out from the center, it had five round holes like a five spot pattern on a dice (or is that die?) or domino. Again, how the glass is

Thanks for your patience with my lack of posting for so long. While I knew it had been a while, I hadn't realized that I had waited that long until I went to post today. Between the holidays, moving into a new place, and lots of classes, I haven't spent very much time in the studio or posted any of

Ages ago, I posted about a new melt pot setup that I had bought and I showed the results of the first disk that I had created using the melt pot. A while back when I was slumping some other bowls I put the melt pot disk onto my wave bowl mold and finished it off.  It turned out great!  You can clic