I don't get to blow glass very often, so when I do, it's a real treat.
But wait, if I like it so much, why don't I do it more often? Well, if I ONLY blew glass, I'd do it every day (or most days...). BJ and I are very diversified though. Along with the glass, we paint, build sculptures (out of the glass we blow), build furniture, websites
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This is a wonderful paperweight. It's 2 inches across and is really fun with the little bubbles inside. It was on ebay for just ridiculously inexpensive.
There is also this one which is very pretty with the deep gold and the ivory mixing
I hope you all have a good new year. This past year was difficult for me, and I'm still digging out of it. I go from great hopefulness to near tears, but I think the hopefulness is winning out. Even though things are tough, I feel like my artwork is beautiful and it is surely what I'm supposed to be doing.
...but sometimes I get so lonely.
Wishing you
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This is a fantastic marble, and it was for sale on ebay.
It's been to cold to blow glass the past week. Our hotshop is in a covered surrounded deck, so it's mostly fine — protected from the rain, wind and can vent through a skylight when it gets too hot, but it doesn't protect enough
Enjoy The Full Story...I fully understand the reasoning behind the financial bailout and the auto bailout. I don't completely agree with them.
I think that the auto industry has had decades of being really poorly run and making on-the-crappy-side cars, with an emphasis on the huge SUVs that are suddenly unwanted. Other car companies have factories here in the states and they aren't asking for bailouts. Toyota and Nissan seem to be
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After getting out of my shower yesterday, I heard a strange watery tinkling sound. I looked around the corner and saw Dobby, my red cream tabby with a curly tail, shown here,
was hopping off of the toilet. I went over and looked in and sure enough, the water was moving, pee colored and had some
We Got SNOW!!! Isn't the place beautiful?? It snows so rarely here, it's really great when it happens. It's only about once every two or three years and then it only lasts maybe a day. As I write this, the great snow of this morning is mostly all melted away now.
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I'm a professional artist, working mainly in glass for the space industry. My partner and I create some of the most incredible glass sculptures having to do with rockets, planets, galaxies... It's an extremely fun career!
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Handmade in the USA
