Category Archives: Stories of my life

I have finished the classes for now. Here are two of my latest pieces of art… or pieces of Art, as it were. I did not take a picture of the vase I made for my older daughter… the one … Continue reading →

How do you add colors to glass? Well, it turns out that you roll the hot glass in various chemicals and compounds, and then melt them into it.  The colors stretch and move as the glass is worked. Here we … Continue reading →

I know, I already sort of explained the glass blowing process, way back after my first lesson. But it is hard to take photos while working with molten glass. For my third and final class, I showed up a little … Continue reading →

There I am, with my teacher, Megg… who is totally cool. Taking a selfie while working with molten glass is not for the faint of heart. Here you see us, with a huge blob of hot glass on the end … Continue reading →

I know, but I did warn you that I had more photos of my first two glass blowing projects… although, I suppose, technically, the paperweight thing on the right, my very first project, didn’t require any blowing at all. I … Continue reading →

I finally got to pick up my first two glass blowing projects! If you are interested in how glass blowing happens, I did a post about that already. But now we get to see how the finished projects look once … Continue reading →