Last month I made some tea dishes, and I had a class and one of my students made tiny glass dishes and it reminded me how much I love little dishes. Here is a picture of the tiny dish with my normal size dish. Additionally, the top green is 2 layers of glass and the bottom green is 1 layer of glass – both the same size. Here are some relatively plain glasses, but so pretty. The one in the middle is iridescent – the right – iridized is up and the left – iridized is on the bottom. The tiny dishes below are more decorated and maybe a bit more fun. Aren’t they beautiful. These three are fun, t ..read more

This is an extremely personal post. A few months ago, my nephew passed away. My sister asked me if I could make some cremation crosses for her and his family. I first made her some pocket crosses with the ashes on the back. Pocket crosses are kept in your pocket to let you know God is with you. Clearly knowing God is with my nephew’s family is very important at this sad time. I also made fused glass cross pendants, again with the ashes in the back. I also made two fused glass cross bracelets, again with the ashes in the back. For my sister I also made her a pocket heart and then I gave her ..read more

With Mother’s Day coming up I thought I’d create a Fused Glass Gift Certificate and you can choose anything and in any amount you’d like. Just me and I will create an Elegant Fused Glass Gift Certificate just for you or for your Mom or both. Here are just some fused glass gift ideas for your mom; Jewelry, Flower vase magnets, pocket hearts, pocket crosses, nightlights, candle shields, pocket vases, and so very much more! Or you could do a gift certificate for a fused glass class, here are just a few classes you can choose from, but you can also make the hearts, night-lights, candle shie ..read more

Normally when people give glasses, they keep to a common subject i.e., ornaments, dishes, casting, etc. But not me, wait until you see all of the things my students made in this fused glass class. As always, I like to show my setup for the students, including their supplies e.g., vitrigraph, opaque glass, transparent, murrine, millefiori, cane, and so much more. As always, I had the liability forms (remember glass cuts) free fused glass pendants as their free gift. Here are pictures of my studio, I’ve been trying to get it better organized. Here are pictures of my finished room (top 3 photo ..read more

Normally when people give glass classes, they keep to a common subject i.e., ornaments, dishes, casting, etc. But not me, wait until you see all of the things my students made in this fused glass class. As always, I like to show my setup for the students, including their supplies e.g., vitrigraph, opaque glass, transparent, murrine, millefiori, cane, and so much more. 2 people wanted to make platesone person wanted to make ornamentsone person wanted to make flower pieces As always, I had the liability forms (I know it’s a surprise, but glass cuts). I also give them options of free of fused gla ..read more

I’ve written several posts about Festivitea and my fused glass dishes to sell there. Here are some of my newest dishes. I just love making these. I’m very happy with how well they all turned out. I also made a few fused glass dishes that don’t have tea sayings. These I’ll keep and sell in my shows or to sell at my home show. If you see one, you’d like please let me know. Of course, I made some more fused glass stirrers for the tea shop as well. If you’d like some fused glass stirrers or little dishes, please let me know. If you would like to see more of my fused glass work, please refer to ..read more

During one of my fused glass classes. One of my students and customers wanted to buy another fused glass necklace. She likes the big snaps so since she set up the class instead of two, I let her choose 3 big snaps. Here are two of the snaps she chose, the third one was on the necklace around her neck so I don’t have a picture of it. I don’t always make the big snaps so even though I have 30 or so I also gave her the option to look in my supply of cabochons that I hadn’t finished yet. Here are some of the options. The two above are from the box of cabochons. I just put the back on for her and ..read more

I love making fused glass magnets. I’ve made several types. I have very tiny, fused glass cabochons and thought I’d put some on tiny clothespins. Everything looks better with glass. Perfect for the refrigerator and holding small notes. I also have tiny, fused glass magnets again perfect for the refrigerator, and so fun! I love magnets I’ve made a myriad of them over the years. Here are just a few. Aren’t they fun!! Check out some of my other posts about fused glass magnets, and let me know which ones are your favorite. If you would like to see more of my fused glass work, please refer to my ..read more

One of my goals is always to try new fused glass techniques. Well, here is one of them, it’s based on a Tabitha’s YouTube video. She is amazing and she create a myriad of the murrine and millefiori. I love her glass accessories and her videos are just so fun.  I won’t go into how to make the technique, but I will tell you I find it a bit challenging and takes several steps. They can be magnets or pendants, but because they take so much work, I think the best way to use them is by framing them. Here are some ways they can be framed. Here is the butterfly scene, with 6 possible frames. He ..read more

I’ve written about my production Fused Glass commercial soap dishes for hotels before. Recently I received another orders from one of my loyal hotels in California. Here they are, I’ve been so busy I forgot to take pictures of them in the kiln for their fusing and slumping but at least you get to see them finished. I like to give a free gift with every order, so I sent the manager a forever flower magnet and a fused glass pocket heart. I hope she likes them. If you would like me to make custom soap dishes for your hotel or restaurant, please contact me I’m happy to create them for you. If yo ..read more