Small Blue Clock

This is one of the smaller clocks I've made. It's 4" wide by 6" tall.

There was an unexpected reaction when I went to slump the glass. It got this very faint grey sheen to it. I refired it to see if it would increase and it did.

I like the way the grey sets off the white floral pattern, but didn't want the whole piece to be grey. So I masked it off and sandblasted the right section.

I then refired to polish up the blue part and then resandblasted to put the hour marks on it.

For a little clock... it's gone through the works!

Snowflakes in the Spring

Here's a clock I made with 'paper' snowflakes embedded in the glass. There are also raised snowflakes on the sandblasted surface. In the picture, you'll have to look pretty close to see them. The most visible is probably the one in the upper left corner.

Pot Melt Pieces

Last month, I talked about what I do with scraps including making pot melts.

While I was cleaning up the scraps at that time, I did four pot melts.

Here are some pieces that I made with those.

p>

Two of the pot melts used more opaque glasses, so I decided to use those for clocks.

The red/yellow clock is about 4" tall and is a semi-circle shape. The green/yellow one is about 5" wide and 6" tall.

With the two that were transparent, I decided to make candle bridges.

Where ya been?

Well, it has been quite a while since my last post and you might be wondering 'Where ya been Laurette?'

I've been quite busy with work and I've been working a project that has taken a while and not been very photo worthy...

I've been making these tiles from wine bottles for some friends' kitchen. Each tile is 1" wide and the lengths on them vary.