Nothing left to do but "Smile, Smile, Smile. We started out doing moretti beads. We sat down at our first torch at Flame Kissed Beads with instructor Kaleigh Hessel and were hooked. Next we took one with boro with intructors Frank and TJ at Mid-Atlantic Glass, also just got back from a class with Chris and Jackie Rice, which was awesome, well worth the trip and the class fee. Always trying new ways to learn more ! Your comments / suggestions are welcome .Let us know how you fill about our work! All work is for sale, contact us for prices.
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I love to make flower implosion pendants and at the urging of Joe who pushes me to try new things, I made a couple of flower marbles. They are not nearly as big as any of his. To be sure I wouldn't win with these shooters but hey nobody's going to be playing marbles with my babies anyway:)
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Here is some of Joe's first marbles, of course, he is his own worst critique. He thinks they need to go to the fugly pile but I think they turned out great.
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Wow! Here is Joe's 2nd attempt at marbles. This one is a monster compared to the only one I've made. I've also put up a picture of my itty bitty one next to his monster, and also to show you the size of it I compared it to a dime.
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Here is one more of Joe's marbles/ this one is very dark/ there is an opal in the middle but the pics don't show it very well. The back of this marble is really great.
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I bit off more than I could chew this time! When I started this marble I never expected it to get so big. I was only aiming for a small one with planets, Welllll I had to give it to Joe who added more glass to cover the planets and melt it in, my torch ( Lynx )just wasn't getting hot enough to melt it all in, Although I was doing a lot of sweating for sure. After Joe added and melted it all in . I finished the back design. I don't think I will make many this size, unless Joe is waiting with a bigger flame to help me.( Phantom )
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I was asked if I could make a fox. Since I had never attempted such a critter I said I would give it a try. Well out of my try, I ended up with a fox, which to me looked a lot like a deer, so then I tried to make a deer, added a red nose to one of them, then I ended up with a dog, now where the dog came from is anyone's guess, but he made himself known and just wouldn't go away. So here they all are, pics a little fuzzy. Will try to get better ones up soon.
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I love Christmas and all things that come with it. I didn't really have time to really get into making Christmas beads, but I did try a few. Here is my first attempts at some of them.
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I've tried to make round beads and don't get me wrong I can, but I have to work really hard to make a round one! Bicones really do have a mind of their own, they just make themselves while I hold the mandrel, or so it seems. So most of the round beads Joe makes, "He's an all a Round kind of guy." Me I make alot more bicones, "hmmmm" "Whats that say about Me I wonder!" :)
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Here are just some of the marbles that Joe and I have worked on in the last week or so. I'm behind on taking pics and posting our work. I've been working on mainly beads as we have two local shows coming up and the locals want more of the beads it seems. The beads will be posted on beadart and jewelry site, partner site to this one, under Iron Mountain Glass.
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Just some beads I was trying new things with. The tiger ones came out great. And the pendant is what was left over from a stringer I pulled. The colors on it are awesome.
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Here are some beads that I've been working on in recent weeks. I can only work on these when Joe isn't around as he likes to work on boro and we only have one Kiln, So I gave Joe a bigger Kiln for his birthday and as soon as it comes in, he can do boro and I can do Moretti at the same time. What a great present for Me! OPPPS! HIM I meant.
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Here are some beads that I've been making over the holiday. Ohhh what fun to be able to just sit at the torch and just create.
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Some beads that we've been working on in the last couple of weeks. Trying new color combo's and other techniques.
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These were made with scraps of stringers that were just laying around on the bench. Ummmm ok so some were on Joe's bench and I just happened to find them. :) They turned out great. Will make more of these. Ummmmm need more stringers Joe!
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This is a marble that my 13 year old son made. This was only his 2 time at the torch. The child has the touch thats for sure. I hope that he continues to explore his creativity.
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This is what I've been working on lately,trying to get myself into the habit of making sets, so that I can turn them into jewelry. These are the ones that I finished today.
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Here is some butterflies that Joe has been working on. Using different color stringers to achive what comes natural for these wonders of nature.
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This is a paper weight that Joe did and after it came out of the kiln we saw that the center looks like a butterfly.
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These are some pendants that I made before our trip to NY, they both are butterflies, one is made with Moretti and the other boro, these were made using Sabina's method.
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Thought I would try my hand at some cabs. They turned out very good to be the first ones.
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Been playing around with different combos of boro and frit. This is some of what I came up with. Hey at least their round! Well sorta:)
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My first attempt at creating a dragon pendant. He is a little scrawny to say the least, hasn't had a good meal in sometime. mmmmmmm humans, I smell humans! What? :)
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I did a monkey on a pendant last weekend, now a cat and dolphin have found their way into my critter hangout.
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I was working with some new colors and decided to put critters on them.
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Joe was really busy making more Dichro pendants, while I played with some Tiki Faces.
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Here is a couple of Dichro Vortex with colored cane made by Joe this weekend. These pictures really are not good, gonna try for better ones tomorrow.
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Here are some pendants that we did. I just lumped them all together in a post to keep from posting them by themselves and taking up the front page.
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One lone fish that I was playing with, trying to get the cartoon look out of them. And some great pendants, Joe's implosions really turned out great.
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As you can tell I'm longing for Spring and Summer to hurry up and arrive. This necklace here is made up of flowers, leaves, birds, and anything else with the feel of Spring.
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Here is a sculpture that we have been working on. We've had a lot of fun making and putting this together. We've entered it in a juried art show coming up soon. Do not know if it will even come close to winning but hey like I said we've had fun watching it come together.
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Joe made this fumed marble. I thought this marble was awesome, the pics really do not do this one justice. You've got it Joe.
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Some of my first pendants. Joe
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Just a few of the first flower pendants that I have made, {Thanks Kristian/Generations Glass}. Donna
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Joe let his imagination conjure up something that women have always known to be a fact. "You Have To Hang Out With A Lot Of Toads Before You Find Your Prince."
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Valentine's Day is a wonderful, exciting, and romantic time, and in keeping with the spirit of Heart Day as I call it, and VD day as Joe calls it. I decided to make some hearts. I hope that each and everyone of you have, that someone special that makes your heart sing.
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Valentines Day is a wonderful, exciting, and romantic time, and in keeping with the spirit of Heart Day as I call it, and VD day as Joe calls it. I decided to make some hearts. I hope that each and everyone of you have, that someone special that makes your heart sing.
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Just a few of the first implosions. Joe
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Here is some things I worked on this weekend. I really enjoyed working on these this weekend. Hope you enjoy looking at them.
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Brandon asked me to make him a shark for a school project he was working on. Here it is, needless to say he was real happy with it. The snake head I made to put on a wine stopper.
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Joe is trying his hand at making butterflies, this is his first one, and wow I think he's got it. The rest are tube pendants with different color combos.
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Ok, I saved the best for last. This is one of Joe's critters:) And he calls me Krazy Woman!
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Some marbles that Joe worked on last week. These are all implosions. I didn't get but one good picture of the back of these. These look great. I still haven't gotten this picture taking stuff down pat. Sometimes I feel like I'm standing on my head, and pulling my hair out too.
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Here is a couple of Joe's recent marbles. The pics were all taken with a new camera.
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Here are some more of Joe's butterflies that he's been working on. He' trying new colors and coming up with some awesome looking butterflies.
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Just playing with some color combo's. Used a little copper too, trying to figure that out. Yeah I used a copper penny on my first try, not knowing you had to use one dated 1945 or before. Had kind of a volcano effect going, what with fire and smoke inside erupting out just like a real one. Now that was WILD. Don't try this at home folks.
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Here are some Frit Implosions Pendants and some Krazy pendants that we made in recent weeks. I've also added a marble that Joe made to match the other two. I will try to get a pic up of all three together soon.
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This is the layered petal flower paperweight that was in Glass Line Magazine. Hope you enjoy the tutorial.
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Joe bought me a lentil press for my birthday, along with Bonnaroo weekend, which is this weekend, I'd rather be in TN doing the Roo! Anyway back to the lentil press, these beads were made this weekend, they are by no means perfect lentil shapes but i'm getting the hang of it.
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Here is some sculptures I've been working on. Joe still say's that I'm playing when I make these and I fully admit that I am, to me any sculptures I make is a pleasure. The Lizzard/raked color technique I owe a big thanks to Milon Townsend.
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Here is some marbles that Joe has been working on. The biggest is 2 1/2" it's a dichro vortex with planets in it. Joe was doing some major sweating on this one, the pics really do not do it justice.
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My first attempt at sculptured rose beads. They are a light lavendar color, with silver and glass seed beads in shades of lavendar. Hope to make many more of these.
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Just one marble to put up today, I spent my weekend doing some boro and moretti beads. This is my first attempt at this type of marble. Six different colors. I did twist the vortex to many times though, but other than that it looks pretty good.
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Here is some marbles that Joe worked on over the weekend. They are awesome to look at. The photos just do not do these justice at all. The colors are so vivid. The one with the tornado, (ammmm yeah I said tornado) HaHa! in the center is my personal favorite.:)
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Here are some more dichro pendants from Joe. The colors in some of these are awesome. I picked me one to wear until it sells. That's the nice thing about making glass pendants and beads, we always have a supply to pick and choose from and we can change up all the time, and I do, it's great advertising too.
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These are some marbles that Joe worked on, I love the flower one, but the planet is my favorite of all time.
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Here is a couple of marbles I did this weekend just playing around. Was trying to get bigger ones than my first attempt and they are just a little bit. The flower is really nice, only thing I don't like about it is the bubbles, so I want be using that color in combo again.
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Here are some more of Joe's marbles, some are recent some he did a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully I'll be able to show Joe how to post pictures on here soon since I've been moved to 3rd shift I'm a Zombie, I walk, I eat, I sleep, but my brain doesn't work very good most days.
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Here are some marbles that Joe played around with this weekend. Ohhh! I meant worked on:)
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I've been trying to make Nemo for a while now, not going to show my first couple of attmepts, let's just say fugly really loud.:) I tried and tried to get the lines on them and they just blurred, then it finally came together,(light bulb went off) different technique to be sure/ they were made with dots, nothing but dots, go figure.:)
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Some new items that Joe and I have have been working on lately. Joe has been trying to makeflower marbles for a while now, "Well he finally got the hang of it" Way to Go JOE!!!
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This is some new marbles, Pendants that we made this past weekend. Marbles are Joe's. They are getting bigger and bigger, "He's trying to fill up the soup ladle"
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Here is some new pendants that we've been working on. Trying new colors.
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It's been a while since I had the time to post anything new. My fault, we have been making new stuff right along, I just haven't had the time to get the pics. posted. Oh and you can check out BeadArtists site too, will be posting a bunch of new beads on there as well, Our gallery on there is Iron Mountain Glass.
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Just some sculptures and pendants. Something new I am learning. Thanks to Lewis Wilson's DVD's.
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This idea came to me and I just had to run with it. The little dolphins are not quite matching but it still looks great.
I will be trying this again, a whole set of these using different little animals as the handles. The ideas are running around in my head and I'm drawing pictures as fast as I can, now let's hope I can get to the torch and put them to glass.
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These are some pendants that we worked (played) with this week. Nothing special just some new techniques we were trying. Please click on this gallery page to see plenty more pictures.
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Glass class in NY with Chris and Jackie Rice
We went trucking up to NY and took a class with Chris and Jackie Rice. This class was awesome, everything that we had hoped it would be. We learned new techniques and tweaked some old ones. They are truely great people with the imagination that makes them great artists. No question was too crazy or strange to them, if we had a question they were there,willing to answer it or better yet show us. Thanks Chris and Jackie for one more awesome adventure that we can add to this strange trip that we are taking into the glass world.
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Here are my sons, Dustin(19), Brandon(12) first time at the torch. Hopefully not their last. Any encouragement is welcome, But remember this! I'm a proud Mama protecting her cubs. :)
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Now what do I do with all them beads I've been making lately? Here is what I decided to do with some of them, still lots more to play with.
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This is some new stuff that we've done since we got back from our trip to NY, glass class with Chris and Jackie Rice. Our attempts in no way compare to theirs, but as Chris said pratice, pratice, pratice.
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Here are some pendants and beads we've made, just playing some in between shows.
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Just some different pendants and other things that we were trying.The rose is for someone special and we wish her "ALL" the hope in the world in her battle with cancer . Joe was working and made some hurricanes, or at least to me the look like them. I made what looks like "TAZ'S dust storm to me ?
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I was doing the back of one of my marbles and thought why not try to do a pendant with a this pinwheel design, hmmmmmmm so with that thought in mind I could hardly wait to try it out and this is what I ended up with. Sometimes my brain really does work normal, Wellllll I did say sometimes. Right Joe? :)
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Joe's been working on Christmas Balls and vases, he's getting into the Christams Spirit this year. I worked on the little perfume bottles this weekend, not perfect but not bad either for first time. We wish you all a Merry Christmas. My tree is full of Cats instead of ornaments. Check out the last picture.
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Here are some pics of glass art that we took at CMOG, these pieces were truly works of art.
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New pics of studio since we added a Moretti bench and Joe's birthday present "kiln". And yes before anyone says anything about the vent hood over new work bench, or the lack of one, it's being made as we speak, I have used it without one as you can see, but I open the windows and the big double doors and we dangle a nut in front of a squirrel, it makes him run faster to create more air, and also turn on the vent hoods over the other torches.
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These are pics of stuff that was made during our class with Chris and Jackie Rice, CNYglass. One word, "Awesome". I don't have a pic of Joe's first one, it split in half as soon as he put it in the kiln, and the other one he made he hid from me so I couldn't take a pic, but I sneaked some of his that he made when we got back to NC, they will be posted in another gallery. :)
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Was trying out something new this past weekend. A couple of rose pendants that turned out good. The monkey pendant was inspired by Linda at cloud9artglass, I only made one just to see if I could. I'm gonna keep him for myself because he turned out better than I thought he would. Butterfly with dichro winds, my first attmept at full sculpture butterfly.
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Women love flowers of any kind. Whether its one or a whole bunch. Men, just to let you know, Women love flowers! I myself love them all, but sure am partial to Roses. (You reading this Joe). Here are some flower sculptures that I made like pendants, as you can see you can wear these on big slides or small ones. Joe red is my favortie! :)
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Some sculptures that I made over the weekend. Seahorse is the biggest one yet that I've made, it measures right at 6 inches tall. The bearded irises turned out awesome. These color combo's worked out wonderful, will try more colors with these.
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When we were in NY taking a class with Chris and Jackie Rice, we had the opportunity to watch Chris make a dragonfly sculpture and Jackie make a clown fish. I could hardly wait to get back to NC to try my hand at these. The dragonflies with the dichro wings were a colab, Joe made the dichro wings and I made the body.
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This little guy started out as a sea dragon/ but changed his mind and mine too/ seems he just didn't want to be a dragon at all/ he wanted to be an angel and since I wasn't working on an angel at the time I just added little angel wings. The little fellow seemed happy with his wings, although he did tell me next time to make them really look like feathers! A little demanding don't you think?
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I've been working on some new color combos. Thought I would try them raked. All but one can be wore as pendants the other is really big. I think it would look great in a window where the sunlight could shine on it.
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Ok, so I thought I would try my hand at sculptures! My first one was an accidental collaboration between Joe and myself. He made the implosion one night and didn't like it! I saved it from the fuglies/trash pile that we have. I think the little guy turned out ok. Hmmmmmm!!! From now on, I'll take all of your fuglies Joe.:)
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Some small vessels made out of Moretti. I had fun with these. Love making these.
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Here is some beads I worked on over the weekend. I'm getting pretty good at getting them round, now just have to keep them in the same size range. These are all done with boro.
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Some Moretti beads I worked on over the weekend. Just different patterns and color combo that I was trying.
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Here is a wild one Joe made. Stealie is being sucked into a vortex. I've also added some beads that I was playing around with last week.
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Here are some wine stoppers that Joe has been working on. He's doing a fine job of his flowers. Oh yeah the butterfly is mine. As you can tell there is more Dichro than anything, Joe loves working with it.
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This is our studio, it's a 12 x 16. It was just a plain storage building until Joe worked his magic and transformed it into a studio that we can be proud of. Hoods were constructed by Pattishall's Industrial Contracting in Sanford, NC. Under each hood is an 10 inch pipe connected to a 1620 CFM attic fan. The bathroom fans ( 70 cfm ) are just for added ventilation.
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I love all things nature has to offer. Flowers are a favorite of mine. They are presents to us mortals to welcome and share.
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Ok, i was asked if I could do a Sculpture Polar Bear pendant. Let me tell you he/she just didn't want to come out and play with me. So again the animals have it. What's That you say? Have What? And I say A MIND of there Own. So here is what Came to Play with me on my torch.
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By request a black bear was born, and then another appeared but black he was not, orange was his color of choice. He's been into some kind of mischief to be sure, with the look upon his face, your sure to see it too.
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This one is really great. It is a vortex dichro. The picture doesn't do it justice at all. This one has a lot of depth to it. Hopefully soon the pictures will start looking like the real thing. In the meantime enjoy looking.
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I was making turtle pendants and decided while I was doing that to go a little futher and make a sculpture. The idea has been in the back of my mind for a while. So here is my first one hopefully there will be more in my future. I love the sea and all it's hidden treasures, and I tend to go that way when I think of something new to try. So hope you enjoy.
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We,ve been working with glass for 5 years now.
We sat down at our first torch at Flame Kissed Beads with instructor Kaleigh Hessel and were hooked. Next we took one with boro with intructors Frank and TJ at Mid-Atlantic Glass, also just got back from a class with Chris and Jackie Rice, which was awesome, well worth the trip and the class fee. A"BIG" ups to Bird & REN for helping us out in the begining, Thank you ! ! !
Joe and Donna Bray
Sanford NC 27330 US
http://www.ironmountainglass.com
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nice
you guys got alot goin on, keep up the good work
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Jimothizzle
on 7/24/2006 8:04:32 AM.
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Hey you 2...
Your work is really progressing quite well...and those marbles are great! Keep up the good work! I do still have that silver fumed pendant if you're still interested..."HOLLER" at me sometime! KIT -Linda R.
» Posted by
Cloud9ArtGlass
on 8/16/2006 2:51:11 PM.
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Oh yeah...
Glad to see you got a website up and running now! Lookin good! :)
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Cloud9ArtGlass
on 8/16/2006 2:53:17 PM.
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Ican see your advance in skill over the pics doing great, practice | | |
