Plenty To See At The Farmer's Market

We've been setting up a booth and selling at the Farmer's Market in Franklin on Tuesdays and Saturdays so we've been knocking out a few new items to take with us. During this past week we added this stained glass sun that we drew up for a student but hadn't actually been made yet. Now it's made and we can see what it looks like.

We also have a 3D heart completed. I'd lost my original pattern and only made one of these so I could see what the finished size looked like before committing to a number of them at this size. In my opinion it's the perfect size so I'll be making at least a few more of these.

I had made one of these Humming Birds years ago and someone expressed an interest in it after seeing the photograph on the website. I redrew it and, like the 3D Heart, I think it came out just right. This one's fun to make and we've had a LOT of people comment on it.

These are some quick and simple beveled suncatchers. This one has yellow accents.
This one has peach/champagne accents.
And this one has blue accents.

Now we're on to what happened during classes during the week. Gerald did return and he's got all of his blue water cut for the bottom of his large Iris window. All that's left is some background glass and he'll be all set with this.


Janice has the background cut for one of her windows. It's hard to see against the white pattern paper but take my word-- it's cut!


While I was in town the other day I found myself just a block away from Janice's house and snapped this picture so you can see how the windows look on the front of the house. Nest time I hope to grab a picture at night with the light on in the room the windows are installed in. You can't begin to imagine how nice they look with light behind them.

And Grace has begun wrapping her window. She's got more than a quarter of the window finished which tells me that her speed in wrapping has increased dramatically.
Sadly, Cheryl was unable to make it in this week due to a number or babies being born at the hospital (she's a nurse). But had she shown up she would have begun working on her latest Invitation box. This is the pattern for it. I guess she'll start it next week.

So if you're in Franklin Saturday morning (7 - 12) or Tuesday afternoons (2-6) drop by the Farmers Market to visit us and see everything there is to see there.

Paul
Bayou Salé GlassWorks

2 Students, 3 People...

This is it, the moment that Grace, Cheryl, Fran, Janice, and Jane have been waiting for: The Blog is now up to date! And rumor has it that we might see Lea return next week along with Gerald. Things might just start hopping again here.

Cheryl has finished her Wedding Box (as predicted). She did really well with this one considering that I sort of left her to make it on her own. I helped here and there but I do believe that she has the hang of this now. And it's a good thing because she has one more to go which she'll start next week.
Fran was in for a morning class and came in more than prepared. She had her cross and ribbon all cut, ground and wrapped. So she tacked it together, cut out her background, tacked that together and then added a border before then applying the brass channel to the window. Since she's on a deadline to finish this she said she might return that night to complete it. This is what she left with in the morning.


And this is what Fran took home with her that night. She soldered it and then just had to wash and color the lead before calling it a completed project. Isn't it amazing what a difference a little light behind a window can make in a picture? Just look at the top photo and then this one and I'd understand why someone would think that they were 2 completely different windows

And that's it. It's official now-- the Blog is up to date and I am calling it a night. :-)

Paul
Bayou Salé GlassWorks

Playing Catch-Up 6 (Week of 6-16-09)

Wow. The large windows are always impressive and this certainly fits the bill. Jane's Fireplace screen looks GREAT! It's based loosely on a pattern she saw on the cover of a book but it's been altered so much that the only thing it has in common with the picture she saw is the fact that they both have mountains and trees. We're not quite sure what Jane will be working on next but she has a number of ideas for things she wants to do.

And Fran's Wedding Box ( though smaller than Jane's Screen) is equally impressive. Rather than making the rose smaller so it fits inside it's background, Fran opted to make the rose extend into the border. It's a bit more work when making the border and trying to keep everything square but it's really worth it in the end.

Janice has her first centerpiece wrapped now and also has her second one fitted together nicely. She'll be wrapping this at home so we'll see background being cut for these 2 windows very soon now.

Grace has all of her window ground now! There are 2 borders to add to this but we won't worry about them until this is all tacked together. That insures a perfectly straight border. I can't wait to see this one hanging up. It's huge!

Cheryl has another Wedding Box in the works and I suspect that it will be completed next week (I know this because I'm a week behind here and know it was finished 3 nights ago. lol) The invitation is black and white and Cheryl is using 2 different clear glasses along with a great black Baroque glass for the border.

I was only going to do 2 posts tonight but I'm on a roll now and there's only one left to go to be completely caught up with the Blog so I might as well finish it now.

Paul
Bayou Salé GlassWorks

Playing Catch-Up 5 (Week of 6-09-09)

Only 4 people were in this week but they all got a lot of work done on their windows.

Grace has the center and the bottom right hand corner of her window to grind before she starts wrapping everything. Don't let the picture fool you-- the window is so big I have to take the picture of it at an angle so it all fits into the viewfinder. Then I straighten it out with Photoshop so it looks like it was taken head on. The only problem is that it makes the top of Graces window looked curved (which it really isn't). I think this will be all ground next week...


Meanwhile Janice has completed grinding the first centerpiece of the 2 she has cut out. One more to go before we start cutting out backgrounds.


Fran got all of the flower of her rose invitation box cut, ground and then wrapped and tacked. So she cut her strips and has taken them home to wrap so she can have this finished next week. Although you can't see it, the orange border matched the orange ribbon on the weeding invitation (which is on the other side of the lid).

Since Jane has finished soldering the first 2 panels of her fireplace screen she worked on finishing up the 3rd one this week. It's almost finished now and the small amount that she didn't complete will be done at home along with the soldering. Look for the finished picture of this screen next week.

That about wraps this post up. There's always more to come though.

Paul
Bayou Salé GlassWorks

Playing Catch-Up 4 (Week of 6-02-09)

Here's the first of another pair of Blogs. Round two begins...NOW!

Here's Fran's small Mardi Gras Mask all completed. After we put the handle on we thought it was finished until I went to take a picture and discovered we'd forgot to add a hanger. But that's all set now.


This is Fran's Mother-Of-All Mardi Gras Masks all soldered up. I'm not sure if the lead will stay silver or if she plans on coloring it black or copper. We're unsure if she'll put a handle on it because it would have to be purely decorative-- a handle would never support a mask of this weight and we don't want anyone assuming that the handle would hold it and then have it break.

Janice has been busy cutting out glass for her centers of her 2 windows. She's grinding them as she's cutting them so when she's finished with her cutting all she'll have to do is make some minor adjustments to get everything to fit correctly.

And Grace is still grinding away at the grinder on her window. I have to say that her cutting is wonderful and things are falling together pretty quickly here.

Denise brought in her window. It's all soldered and ready for hanging save for one thing-- she didn't have any brass channel to trim the edges of the bevels! Denise originally didn't plan on putting a bevel border on this window and I have to say that she really lucked out. She only had to skim a sixteenth of an inch off side bevels and it went together as if she'd planned it all along.

Cheryl has the top of her box completed and is ready for the bottom tray portion. She'll have that finished during the next class so expect to see this box completed in the next Blog entry.

I swear I'll never let this Blog get this far behind again. This is really a mental workout arranging all these pictures and remembering just what happened on each class!

Paul
Bayou Salé GlassWorks

Playing Catch-Up 3 (Week of 5-26-09)

Here's the second of another pair of blogs. This will wrap up the month of May.

Michael Ann's window is completed! As you can see the colors look very different with some natural back lighting. Micheal Ann did a great job and hopes to make some more projects later on towards the end of the year for Christmas Gifts.

Russ made a cat window. The glass is purr-fect, wouldn't you say? (ouch)

This is your first look at Fran's Mega Mask. This is easily the most elaborate Mardi Gras Mask I've ever seen. It's almost completely soldered as she worked on this one a lot at home.

And Fran also managed to finish soldering her smaller Mardi Gras Mask as well. All this needs is a handle and it will be finished.
Denise has been busy working on this LSU window at home. She came in to pick up some bevels to use as a finishing border. You can see the bevels (if you look closely) lying on the LSU portion of the pattern. This one will be finished soon so expect to see a completed picture shortly.


And that wraps up the month of May.

Paul
Bayou Salé GlassWorks