Feb
28
I’m always so busy posting about beads and fusing and mosaic that I continue to neglect the stained glass community and that’s just not right. My problem is that I don’t do any stained glass. There just aren’t enough hours…
Feb
27
It’s Saturday night and it has been awhile since I did Tutorial Saturday, so here it is. But first I want to share the bead I made last night with the wig wag twistie I made using the tutorial the…
Feb
26
I’m looking for tutorials. I found Torch Bugs. And I actually found something I want to make. It’s the wig wag twistie to decorate with. Sarah Hornik has perfected this and who contributed to the tutorial but Sarah herself. So cool.…
Feb
25
I am so excited for the glass artists in Santa Fe and those that don’t even know they will be glass artists. Bullseye Glass is opening a resource center in Santa Fe. Yea ha!! I’m kind of jealous…but congratulations to all…
Feb
23
New tutorials are always a good thing and this one from fusedglass.org is no different. What’s really nice is that it produced a really lovely piece that doesn’t look like a lot of the typical fused glass pieces out there. So…
Feb
22
I received an email today for a call out to glass artists for an upcoming show at The Fallbrook Art Center. I thought I should pass the information on to all of you. If you’re in California and want to…
Feb
20
Yesterday we went to Tacoma, WA. Today we’re crossing the country to Pittsburgh, PA. Check out the Pittsburgh Glass Center. It’s all you could possibly want in a glass facility. Classes with well known guest instructors, special events, a couple…
Feb
19
This is one glass destination that I have yet to experience, having been in the Seattle Tacoma area only once. But I will go here. Oh yes I will. Museum of Glass. Just wandering around the web site makes me…
Feb
17
I’m friends with Gaffergirls on Facebook, me and 2538 other people, and I always notice they have a lot to say about glass. That’s a good thing. Glass is good! There I said it. So I think…
Feb
16
There’s fresh glass at Double Helix and it sure looks beautiful! It’s called Clio and it’s a striking, color shifting, reducing glass that looks reddish orange in the picture. it just became available yesterday so I haven’t had the pleasure of…
Feb
15
I saw this on the Corning Facebook page and thought, “Why don’t I live on the east coast?” It’s Lino Tagliapietra on TV showing glass working as part of the Masters Series at Corning on WSKG. The next episode has William…
Feb
14
Today I received an email newsletter from fusedglass.org that has a great offer for plans to make your own professional glass strip cutter. This looks like a really nifty item to build. They have a video on their site showing how it’s…
Feb
12
I received the new issue of Glass Line yesterday and started looking through it for interesting information to share with all of you out there in the internets and I came across an article about Brent Kee Young and had to share…
Feb
11

I recently received some glass samples to try out from CBS, Coatings by Sandberg, which makes the best dichroic coatings in the glass industry. The samples were of Uroborus 104 thin sheet and since I make most of my beads…
Feb
10
Are you getting excited about the upcoming GAS Conference in Louisville, KY? I know I am. I’ve never been to Louisville so I’m looking forward to checking out somewhere new. If you are looking to participate in some of the exhibitions…







