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Learn to sculpt a glass head with a torch, glass and a few simple tools. Milon Townsend shows you how in this youtube video:

This blogging on Craft Gossip is getting expensive!  I have to keep up on all the latest glassy goodness you know, and that means test driving the handcrafted products I come across so I can review them.

The above is a…

Since starting to blog for Craft Gossip I’ve been scouring the internet for all forms of glass art.  An interesting thing is that in my blanket searches I’m finding amazing artists right in my own backyard.

Take for example Newt Grover’s…

Do you love art glass but don’t have the time, resources or inclination to make it yourself?  Kersey and Preston show you how they celebrate art glass…by buying it at garage sales and surrounding themselves with it.

What about you?  If you…

Check out freestainedglassdesign.com and download unique, patterns for stained glass or submit one of your own.  I browsed around and found some really great designs.  I’m confident that you will too!

Roger and Pam Davidson of Oro Valley, Arizona are fabricating four stained glass windows at the request of their son who is currently serving in Iraq.  Read the full story here.

What better way to relax than to work an artsy workshop into your vacation plans?  I’m not talking about traveling just to take a workshop, but working some type of art making into your regularly-scheduled vacation.

Follow Jay and Carissa’s blog…

Fresh from the glass and metal garden of Scott and Shannon Johnson come these beautiful bouquets.  Guaranteed never to die and need minimal care.  Perfect for those of us with less than green thumbs!

How fun is this lattice work in glass?  (Click through to see the whole piece.)  It’s a great fused bowl that I could definitely see on my counter.  You see…I have a problem with cluttered counter tops. But if I had…

I found these while scouring the internet for fun and funky Halloween glass art for you.  RIP beads are on Whitney Street Studios glassartists.org page from back in 2004!  So, you probably won’t find them on their web site but they’re…

Learn how to melt bottles in your kiln to make decorative home accessories. Whether it be a cheese platter, a spoon holder or wind chimes, fused bottles are sure to be a conversation piece…especially if you make them yourself!  Decorate them…

Being an October baby, fall is my favorite month.  Somehow though, it’s just not the same in the middle of the hot, dusty desert.  So, every September as I try to remember the smell of changing leaves and smoke from…

Unlike the more realistic bat fan pull that I showed earlier in the week, here are some fun bats that I found on the Mermaid’s Tale blog. There’s still time to make your perfect Halloween bracelet.

Juicy Halloween beads from Beads by Laura in the UK.  Purple and lime green are the new orange and black of Halloween.  Be sure to visit Laura’s blog and follow her glass bead creations.

I’ve always been intrigued by sculpture.  Add to that my love of glass and I can’t get enough.  See more stunning glass work by Kurt Carlson and Lynda Pownall-Carlson over on the Naples Open Studio Tour site.  While there, scroll down…

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