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Posted in Uncategorized, glass on Jan 1st, 2010
Glass and music and friends — what better way to spend New Year’s Eve? I spent the afternoon with Julia of Art of the Firebird, teaching our friends Marcy Lamberson and Renee Taylor how to do Viking knit. We laughed a lot (and enjoyed Julia’s husband’s home-made cookies!). Marcy had to leave early, but Renee [...]
Posted in dogs, frit testing, glass, panic on Jan 19th, 2009
What do you do if your dog gets into your glassmaking supplies? I’m currently dog-sitting for my ex-neighbor’s two dogs, both of whom get along really well with Mr. Justin Wigglebutt, my rescue whatsit. Justin sleeps in his (open) crate in the study, because I can trust him not to chew the books on the [...]
Posted in Four Tails Lampwork, down the street bead shows, glass, shows on Oct 1st, 2008
One of the neat things about doing a show is that you get to talk to many interesting vendors. The owners of Forward Motion Arts were there. They were handing out samples of a new bead release that they have formulated. Bead release is basically kiln wash, and kiln wash is basically kaolin and alumina [...]
Posted in beads, frit testing, glass, lampwork, technique, tornado on Jul 6th, 2008
Over the weekend I tried a new technique–the tornado bead. There’s an excellent tutorial on them by Margaret Zinser, and I have wanted to try them! A fellow team member, Elysium Beads, has a beautiful tornado bead example on ETSY, reproduced here as the first picture, and her bead gave me the necessary boost. Meanwhile, [...]