January's sateam blog carnival

The topic for this months blog carnival is "What is your favorite material and why?" If my answer to that isn't glass I'm in trouble... I really do have enough glass to open a store... actually I have more glass than a lot of stores do... I have glass for doing windows, for fusing, for lampworking, for jewellery, ... I have boxes of Crystals, pressed Check Glass, I have glass seed beads (that's my latest lust).



I first met glass in 1969 living in Switzerland.... Jump 15 years to a flat glass class that I took as a favor to a friend. I won't say cutting glass was instant love but once you start taking over the house/ garage/ studio with sheets of glass you have to pretend to love it!



But then I made fusing.... heat ... I'm drawn towards anything that produces heat! I'm always frozen so anything that produces heat is GOOD! Fusing was good but then along came flames and fire... I have a torch... I can now make beads... Oh did I forget to mention that I have a houseful of glass lampworked beads.....And if I wasn't in love with glass as glass just look at the colours! I love colour...

If your wondering where the picture of the sheet glass is.... my dungeon is too dingy and gloomy to take a decent photograph in! But I've just started making rondels on my torch to use in my windows.



Here's everyone elses links

galadryl
O'Refined
beadsire
Familee jewels

Almost wordless Wednesday

When we were in NH just before Christmas I saw a huge window made out of rondels.... So I decided to make some lamp-worked rondels and design a window around them.... This is the UNFINISHED prototype... (and yes it should be rotated 90 degrees to the right!) now to design one that suits the criteria of my commission... brown and gold glass.... Think I can sneak in bevels and rondels and lots of texture... will they like it.. or will I be making stock for the gallery!