Fall and Winter Show Planning time is here

Although summer just began yesterday, planning for the fall and Holiday shows has already begun.

Here are only 2 items that I will be adding to this years show items.

The sweet orange dish

only measures 3" square at the base and is 6 1/4" at the top. It can be used as a candle dish, or to hold you're sea shell collection or pot pour ri.

The fun little kite sun catcher is 6"L x 3 3/4"W. Each of these items can be made in any host of colors to suit your interior.

Here is an update on the bevel panel that was started in March.

Well at long last I have been able to get back to doing glass. I soooo missed working on it. The darned MS was teaching me to adjust my plans again.

The inner panels are now all complete. Will be completing the assembly of them and the re-strip today, so that I can move onto the border pieces.

A word to glassers following this panel. I learned the hard way that bevels within the same box, or from box to box are not all the same size. This panel has 64 bevels. The frames were cut with the strip cutter using stops, had I not done it that way, I would have been blaming my cutting, (which really I thought was the problem, until I grabbed a few different bevels, only to find out that they fit right)

The plan is, is complete the panel by this evening. Fingers crossed.

©Stained Glass Creations from Designs by JFA

The next project is shown above. It measures 28 x28. I think this one is going to be mine and hung in my studio. Well mine unless someone comes along and would like to add it to their home. LOL

Cutting the pieces was made soooo easy, using the stops from my Morton glass shop. Love having the tools to make life easier.

Progress on my saddle and barn sign project

Here is an up date on the recent project that will be being placed in a local grain supply store. The owner's have offered me the opportunity to place items relevant to their business in their store. These two pieces will be among several animal panels that I have on the drawing board including the panel of Creo. I will also be putting hummingbird feeders in the shop too. The work on these two pieces has been slow, as I am also putting together my class plans for up coming stained glass classes with will start soon. The plan is to finish these this week and start the Creo panel. Will post up dates on that panel .

The next step

Well, I am taking my glass advneture to the next level. I am going to start teaching classes.

This step is very exciting to me.

I will be offering biginner classes in stained glass, Mosaic work and glass engraving. I will also teach design concepts if any students are interested in creating their very own patterns.

The classes will be limited to 4 students a night, so the students will get a lot attention. Fire side will add to the relaxed experience.

I will have a full inventory available of supplies, hand tools and such, a decent supply of glass.

After teaching ceramic for 7 years, I really miss the glow that students get when they complete a piece.

Nana brags again

Just have to share that my grandson has wrestled his way to the top again. He is #1 in junior varisty wrestling, this year. He was team captian for his team too. Two years ago he was New England Champ for Wrestling USA.

Good Job Ryan.

Western Designs

Here are two patterns I just designed for a local grain store. Time will tell if the accept them.

©Stained Glass Creations from Designs by JFA 1/17/2009