A pane in the glass

Some of you asked me to post some of my glass  stuff so here it is. (You may be sorry!)

It all started 15 years ago with this, a round room on the back of our house, which we bought as a derelict.  There was this woman who was restoring the house next to ours who I was told did stained glass.  She and her husband turned out to be fascinating people & I asked her to give me an estimate for doing the twenty windows that make up this circular room, rotted from the sills down (now where my plants spend the winter.) She looked at me and said, "Honey, you'd save a lot of money if you did it yourself."  Ugh...ANOTHER thing to learn, geeze, I wasn't really interested but this lady was persuasive.  So I began taking classes at Mandarin Stained Glass which she owns. 

The lady was none other than Florence whose garden you can read about here  and who became my glass guru and dear friend.

A year or so later, I was hooked on glass and the plant room looked like this.

I'm now an avid hobbyist & teach classes at Mandarin.

Here are a few more things I've made on this learning journey.

A green man stepping stone where three paths meet in my garden.

Another stepping stone

Fused glass plate.

Stained glass panel

"Thirty pieces of silver"  There are 30 pieces of mirror because it's all about the guilt. 

Fused glass plate

Door that will probably never get installed.  Our interest and energy is waning  for our Queen Anne Victorian house restoration.  Anyone want to buy a garden with a really cool project house in the middle?

 The second glass thing I ever made.  Don't look too closely, the craftsmanship is hideous!

Another fused glass plate

 Mosaic bust

Sandblasted and slumped plate. 

Experimenting with dichroic glass

 Another sandblasted piece

The goddess Flora to whom we are slaves.

 Our front door - replaced a single piece of textured glass from the 50's.

Always had a thing for fleur de lis.

 Back outside - Blue flower

 More flowers.  The one on the right is made with mostly thrift store buys.

 Once, I was on a "glass basket" kick.

Hope you've enjoyed looking half as much as I've enjoyed learning and experimenting.