Finally Winter and Some New Pieces

Winter finally came to Cape Breton yesterday, but really it’s the end of January. Another couple of months and it’s over. This is unbelievable for Cape Breton and scary at the same time.

Anyway I did manage to take myself to the shed and get some work done yesterday. The stars are still out there. The pieces of jewellery were a total flop but the clock base came out okay.

It is 3 layers of glass, the white is iridized with a transparent blue in the center. It is 5in x 5in so a good size for a desk clock. What you see scattered across the face of the blue is Inca gold mica powder. In person it gives it a nice effect.

I would love to tell you it was easy to put together and it should have been BUT it wasn’t. One of the screws didn’t fit right and by the time I discovered that, it was already on crocked and I ended up having to break up the clock movement. Of course the next one I picked up fit perfectly and was on in seconds.

The other new feat to allow me to make the clock was actually making myself learn to drill holes in glass. It is quite daunting sitting there with this drill and a piece of glass sitting in a container of water, all I could think of was electrocuting myself.

As you can tell that didn’t happen. Even did some pieces of beach glass (mermaid’s tears) that my Aunt Joan picked up on the shores of Cape Breton.

 

So now that I know how to do that no more excuses.

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New Year – Start of New Products

Well Happy New Year everyone.

I have decided to start my new year this time by being more productive than I normally am in the cold winter months.

I will try for more regular posts on the blog. As well will post each new product as it is developed and produced.

This year I am going to do some fused glass picture frames, fused glass desk clocks, fused glass switch plates etc.

The first sample produced today is the set of four fused glass magnets contained in a metal tin. Each fused glass magnet is approx 3/4  of an inch square. I had some of the regular craft magnets but have replaced them with the very strong earth magnets. These definitely will not fall off by accident.

This particular set is done with 2 layers of fused glass and taken to a full fuse. Others will be tacked fused. They will be fun to do and package.

 

 

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New Pieces

Finally have a chance to post some pictures.

We are going into the last week of the cruise ship season and things have been pretty hectic. Not a good time of the year for cruises in the north Atlantic. Some get cancelled because of the weather and others like today have passengers who can’t speak our language so don’t even try. Not great for sales.

Anyway here are some new fall leaves pieces

 

 

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More of Our Town Series

This one is called Main Street, Our Town. We have some shoes, crafts, gifts a mall and of course clothes. And you can’t have a Main Street that isn’t paved in gold.

This is 2 houses in Our Town series, perhaps mine and grandma’s.

Away for a few minutes to what I call “The Tree of Life”. The leaves are a moss green while the earth and branches are a bronze powder with dichroic accents.

And we are back to the changing of the colours so can’t have that without “Falling Leaves”

Back to Our Town, this is simply our house, You can see in the picture below that I put an easel back on it to allow it to stand or be hung.

And last but not least, a

night light in the series with the automatic censor, so it comes on as it gets dark, great for bathrooms or hallways.

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Dichroic Glass Sculptures

Well I finally took some time to get some pictures. First the fleur de lis for Fortress Louisbourg. Even did some special carding.

Here are the dichroic pendants, magnets and coasters and hot pads.

Then I did a new grouping of tacked dichroic pendants for the ships and while I was at it did some framed pieces  that I call dichroic sculptures. Unfortunately these pictures don’t do them justice but will try to get better ones before putting them on the web.

 

I am really pleased with these pieces especially the one in the pewter frame. The wooden frames can stand, be hung or lay flat. the pewter frame is for hanging only and is bigger than the others as well as the glass pieces is larger.

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New Fleur de Lis Pieces

Time speeds by and can’t seem to keep everything posted. Did do some new fleur de lis pieces for Fortress Louisbourg. Will post some pictures later but have some dichroic fleur de lis pendants done as well as magnets,coasters and hot pads completed. Will take them out this week.

Last time I was out decided to drive to Kennington Cove. Hadn’t been there since I was a kid and forgot how beautiful it was.

Not sure where this guy ended up must have climbed over the rocks from here, no more foot prints.

It was a couple of days after Bill went through and the area had just reopened that day.

 

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Finally Fired

Well, have been busy, ships are arriving in numbers and business is good.

However did get these pieces fired and framed over the past week so thought I had better post.

Colours stayed and we are happy with it.

Again a few bubbles but nothing that distracts from the piece.

And third but not least my favourite and the one we tested with.

We put a varnish on this one to try and keep the  layers of paint from moving and it worked. Burned off without any adverse affects.

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