My apologies, again, I forgot to take an ‘after’ photo of the firing, but you should get the idea from my comments. This firing was just to create a stack of clear and black dots, as well as rescue a few that didn’t work in a previous firing. My plan for the dots is to …
In this firing I tried making cabochons with three layers of glass. This probably is a more normal method, capping with clear glass, so I expected this to work well and with few issues. As usual, I added a few other bits to see what happened. This probably going to be my approach always; adding …
This full fuse firing was all about testing a few ideas to make glass cabochons for jewellery. You will notice in the ‘Before’ photo that the items are placed on separate pieces of BullsEye Thinfire kiln shelf paper. For no specific reason other than to use up the paper offcuts. All glass is BullsEye COE …
This was my first attempt at a fused glass clock face, but it was a bit of a disaster from the beginning. However, there are a few lessons to be learnt here. First one is to take better photos. The one and only photo I have is by my iPhone and it isn’t great, but …
This was a milestone – my very first glass fuse firing. What’s a glass puddle? Well, I didn’t have the faintest when I first heard the term. It is basically a technique for creating jewellery cabochons. The idea is to layer up a number of pieces of art glass in complimenting colours, then full fuse …
This is the first post of what I expect to be many about the evolution of our studio. We are learning so we do expect to be making changes to the studio as we discover what does and does not work for us. Having said that, we love our studio. It is our new playground …
This was actually a bigger problem than I expected. We needed a good sized workbench that was very solid and sturdy, and at the right height. The sizes was important because we needed enough room to have the cutting station but also area for project setup, kiln shelf preparation, general design work and what ever …
Not sure if anybody is really interested, but thought I would post a little about building our studio. By the way, please excuse the photos. They were taken with an old iPhone. The studio is for working with glass, as in glass fusing, glass slumping and glass draping. It is also a work area for …
