Wall of Shame (shame it didn’t come out it would have been awesome)

Alright despite what I said last night I decided to fire up the kiln with the pieces that were ready. I opened the lid this morning with a great deal of excitement, looked in, closed the lid and drove to Tim’s for a coffee. Some days the kiln gods smile on ya and other days they have their fun at your expense. This was my day for them to have fun.

I cast some large tear drop pendants, they didn’t even warrant a picture.

I also did some small faces that I was going to make into pendants. They came out something like my mood with the weather these days. Shrunken and mis-shapen

Because they are definitely one of a kind I will wear them because honestly I luv em! They are approx 2.5hx1w. That wasn’t the dimensions they were suppose to be, nor were they suppose to have large areas of their faces missing.

I also did some medium faces, so here they are before cleaning.

They look relatively decent from the front but the back ain’t pretty.

One of the other items was a fleur de lis, where the fingers are in the picture attached is where the glass shrank and didn’t fill out to the ends.

That’s to bad because that is what I wanted to take to Louisbourg.

The other item again no picture was a (was going to be) a carved vine and flowers in a 5hx7w cast piece. It cracked in the annealing cycle on the way down and was in pieces when I opened the kiln.

So that is my sad tale of woe. However I do know what I did wrong and one valuable lesson I learned was 35 grams of glass is not made equal and that I will never forget.

Have a great one and for you American folks Happy 4th of July.

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Weather

Nothing else needs to be said, it is miserable. With it being so overcast and wet for the past I don’t know how many weeks, I was finding it very hard to motivate myself to create any new glass pieces. Today I went into the Center for the first time in months and discovered that a new glass artist to the Island has the place full of pieces and I actually had to look around twice before I found my items in a corner. That was the kick I needed.

Tonight they are calling for thunder and lightening so I won’t turn the kiln on, however I do have numerous molds already filled and ready to do some casting. I have some fleur de lis molds ready to go, if they come out good I will approach the Fortress  Louisbourg gift shop, which is a national park situated on Cape Breton.

Also some faces medium and small in size. The small ones would make nice pendants. Also getting the casting molds ready to do more boxes and sea creatures.

Then I decided I will make some larger pieces that fit the stands I have in the shop. Also have some other ideas cooking but will wait until they are finished and I can post the pictures. Look for new photos first of next week

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Fused glass Enamel Paintings

This was just posted in Mystic Fusion but these 2 pieces are to nice not to post here as well.

Bob gave me these 2 items today and I will do the initial firing tonight. Tomorrow you can follow up on the Mystic fusion blog if interested

Cast Glass Box

Finally got a box done. Made it with glass powder instead of fine frit because that was all I had. I mixed some "turns pink" into "water clear" I am very pleased with the colour and with different mixing you could do some marbling very easily.
Soon I will have my orders finished and be able to send some time with new rings and pattern bar molds

New Cruise Season Starts

Well it's Friday at noon and I am having a hard time realizing that the first cruise ship arrives in Sydney tomorrow. I am not ready and don't have anything for the shops that carry my work as well on the waterfront. Lorraine and I head out later to set up. Won't take us long. Hoping for a good season this year but really have no idea how it's going to go.
I will tell you tomorrow evening how the day went.

New Fused Glass Pieces

This came out of the kiln this morning. The 2 green trays are done with 2 layers of clear and a combination of frits that remind me of tide pools formed between rocks once the tide goes out.
"Missy" the face has been slumped into a bowl and will end up in a gallery in Cheticamp in a folk art gallery .
The lattice work bowl is destined for a shop in Mahone Bay. Check out my web site
www.caperglasscreations.com
to see where our pieces are carried.
The final tray is going to the Cape Breton Center for Craft and Design for their auction Friday night.
Hope they have a successful night.

A Cousin

Since this is my blog about all glass I do as well as living in Cape Breton, today I will post the cousin. I am pleased with this pieces and would like to do a series but can't quite figure out how to display them. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
Also fired some of our (Bob MacDougall and I) Mystic Fusion pieces and am hoping I can enter them in this part of the post.

 

  

I have to say photos don't do these items   justice. Next shots will be these done up into pendants

And now for acouple pictures of my Cape Breton in winter taken by my Aunt Ann.

 

This is at the Miners Museum at Glace Bay, Cape Breton NS

 

This is a shot of the outside of the Miners Museum

 

Another angle of the outside of the museum

And that is it for Sunday morning in Cape Breton.