Get Off The Drugs!

Paula's '65 GTO features a lot of lead pieces that she added detail to with some wire work soldered on top of the lead to form the hubcaps of the car. This is NOT a beginner pattern in any way, shape or form and Paula handled it with without batting an eye.Even the lettering that she did with enamel paint and then fired onto the glass is extraordinary!

 

 

Keri's Praying Mantis may be a bug but it's pastel color scheme makes it a very unique and beautiful bug!  She's learned a lot while making this and I love how she worries about the little things because it's that attention to detail that will make her windows stand out in a crowd- just like this one.

Mary's first project since returning back to class three weeks ago is impressive and shows that, without a doubt, she retains what she learns!  This Eagle is an impressive piece of art that will surely put a smile on the lucky recipient's face!

 

 

 

Cindy's Big Beautiful Butterfly has officially been completed and it's certainly big and beautiful. She really made this in record time without panicking as the deadline for its needing to be completed fast approached. Her work throughout this was always exemplary!

 

 

 

Lara's Gnome Hiding Under a Mushroom is the very definition of whimsical. Her glass choices were fantastic as is her workmanship. A head turner for sure that will light up any room!

 

 

 

We've never seen this before but I'm sure that we will again. Kandise knocked this out with ease in just two short classes so I believe that proves that she's an apt pupil! Even her color choices are supreme, don't you agree?

 

Let completed a new Wavy Cross pattern that was made out of some of her larger pieces of scraps but which looks as though it belongs in a high end stained glass store!

 

 

 

Let also finished s Teardrop Lily Panel which seemingly came out of nowhere to me. She starts and completes things at an amazing rate of speed. 

Judy has another Cross under her belt and the orders for them just keep coming in much to her dismay!  Will the end EVER be in sight?  Stay tuned to discover the answer to this and many other intriguing questions. 

Martha began a Double Sunflower window and she not only cut out her flower petals but ground them as well. And just look at how perfectly they fit together. I do believe that Martha is trying to show everyone up on Tuesday evenings!!

 

  

 

 

Jan has returned and she's working on a golf green panel which will feature a wire work flag and hole.   It doesn't make much sense when I type that out but it will when you see this completed. 

 

 

Let is working on this tiny Butterfly whose pieces couldn't fit together any more exactly. She left the PERFECT amount of room for the foil because it all went together beautifully and only needs some solder now. The head is so small I'm sure it will cover with lead, alas there's nothing that can be done about that. Luckily it will still look great even when it fills with solder.

  

  

 

Judy is tiring of making the same Cross over and over so she's opened up the pattern bin and decided to make this cross next. Yes, it's still a cross but it's something different to break the monotonous hours that Judy has been putting in.

 

  

 

 

Linda L has begun a window featuring an inscribed bevel with a fractured glass background that she plans on making out of scrap glass. After drawing out a pattern made of random lines she discovered that her scrap pieces where actually too small for what she had drawn so she then cut almost every piece in half at odd angles to make the pieces smaller. The end result looks wonderful and no one would ever guess that it was adjusted to incorporate smaller pieces of scrap glass. 

 

 

 

Susan R's Pumpkin Gnome is all cut out and he now has a new pair of shoes. Susan has also foiled all of her pieces and tacked it together which means that she'll solder this when she comes back in.

 

  

 

 

Lara is also working on Christmas Lights that she'll actually be stringing together! She's also hard at work on her Bee Honeycomb pieces as well so she's definitely been keeping busy.

 

 

 

June's jigsaw-like Multi-colored Cat has glass pieces that fit within the lines of her pattern flawlessly. It's a steady process that June has proven to be more than up for.

 

 

  

Ann is wrapping away on the pieces that form her fractured background. I believe this will come together as a finished project very soon now.

 

 

 

Since Melissa was able to cut and grind the border for her Tiffany styled Birds Window she's taken it home to wrap those border pieces and perhaps even begin to solder the front of her window as well. These birds are ready to take flight!

 

  

  

Cheryl's Mr Bingle Streetcar has all of its detail in the front window of the streetcar which is the section that Cheryl is now working on. The rest of this window is nice, easy large pieces but it's Bingle himself that's going to take the lions share of Cheryl's work. Alas, it's coming along slow and steady.

 

 

 

All of Bee's glass for her Fiery Peacock has officially been completely cut out (and ground as well.) We knew that last border would get done quickly which means that Bee will begin soldering when she comes back in. This window is nearly complete. 

 

 

 

Mary Grace has another frame just awaiting solder and the three pieces of glass that will make the legs and support piece so that this can stand on a table.

 

  

 

 

MiMi's second section is almost completely ground and she only has one 18 pack egg carton worth of glass to grind before she begins wrapping all of the pieces that she has pinned to her board.

 

   

 

And Lorrie has begun a series of 10! Oil Scope Wands but I did not get a picture of the strips of glass that she had cut for four of them.  We'll check that out next week when she also gets more sides cut as well as the 3 clear pieces for each of them.

And there ya have it!

Paul

Bayou Salé GlassWorks

The More You Do, The More You CAN Do

Martha's Beach Scene Window is complete and I believe that I feel a cool breeze coming in off of the ocean!  I wish you could see the dolphin in the water more easily because this small picture certainly doesn't do Flipper any justice.   I love the detail in those beach chairs though and Martha handled all of the painstaking detail of this window with ease.

 

 

Let's Luna Moth is lovely enough but it's the irregular shape of the background and the border glass that really makes this stand out.   Of course Lets work is the other show stopping force in this piece.

 

 

Linda F put the finishing touches on her pair of Flower Pot Ornaments and her choices of colors between the two of them really shows you just how much color can change the overall look of a pattern.  I suspect that if the flowers in the pots that these reside in ever die no one will even notice because they'll be too busy looking at the wonderful stained glass that Linda made.

 

 

 

Let also completed this large Teardrop Lotus Suncatcher along with her Luna Moth. To be honest with you I'm not entirely sure that the flower in this IS a Lotus but it's certainly close enough to be mistaken for one if it isn't.  I guess we'll call it a Stylized Lotus.

 

Lara made this Humming Bird Suncatcher while at home and utilized some exquisite glass in it.  You can always spot art glass from a mile away because it's never static, which always has a range of colors throughout it and lights up differently depending on the angle of viewing.  You can some of that beauty here.

Betty's Christmas Frog is finished and this is the first of at least two.  Once again, art glass really makes this Frog stand out because of the colors and pattern of the green glass.  Let's face it, it's perfect for a Frog.

And Mary Grace knocked out another Stained Glass Frame which makes her batting average about 2 weeks per frame which is not bad at all.

 

Susan R has her Pumpkin Toting Gnome all ground and ready for foil.   That is, unless you've noticed the fact that he doesn't have any shoes on his gnome feet yet.   He's going to have to make a pit stop in New Orleans to pick up some Manolo Blahniks or he'll be out of fashion! 

 

Linda F has already begun working on a beautiful Pumpkin Owl which is about to be made by at least two other students. The pattern below looks cute enough but when you see this completed and colored in you'll definitely be saying, "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" 

 

 

 

Kandise began a new Virgin Mary Suncatcher and she got it traced out, cut out and ground all in one short class. She's taken it along home with her so she can (hopefully) come back in with it already foiled and ready to be soldered. Even if she's unable to foil while at home I have no doubt that she'll have this completed before she leaves class next week.

 

  

 

 

Lara is working on a Gnome of her own and this guy will be standing under a mushroom, or is it a toadstool? I guess the only way to find out for sure is to eat it. If we get sick or die its a Toadstool since those can be poisonous.  She's also working on a few different Honeycomb projects as well which explains all of the various hexagons on her work board.

 

  

 

Next we see that Betty is already working on her second Christmas Frog as well as a Pumpkin Owl of her own. She's gone ahead and worked on two different holidays this week rather than waiting for the holiday season when she'll have to rush things.

 

 

 

Check out Paula's GTO! zoom in and you'll see her personalized license plate as well as the GTO insignia on the front grill. There's a lot to appreciate in this window and we'll point it all out when we look at the finished piece (which will be real soon now).

 

  

 

 

Not content with having just two projects completed this week Let is also very close to finishing this Lily Teardrop Suncatcher as well.   She's on a roll for sure! 

 

  

 

 

And Cindy is no slouch herself! Her Butterfly is almost completely ground already and that is no mean feat considering she just began this last week. I mean, look at all of those pieces! Very impressive if I do say so myself!

 

 

 

Last Week Mary began classes again but I didn't get a picture of her project so you had no way of knowing that. This week she showed up with the Eagle she began last week all cut, ground,  foiled and tacked together! I think it's safe to say that she has forgotten nothing during her two and a half year sabbatical from stained glass! We'll see this completed when she returns and that's a promise!

 

  

 

 

Bee came in and laid out the bevels for her Peacock Window. Once she determined the size she wanted she then foiled all of bevels and tacked them together using squares to keep everything in alignment with perfect right angles. Once that was done she cut a piece of Krinkle Glass to fit the opening. She placed the peacock on top of it and traced around it which then provided her with the lines that she needed to cut on. By the end of the night her background was a perfect fit!

 

  

 

Cheryl's Mr Bingle Street car Window is slowly taking shape as she grinds all of her pieces. She's working from the bottom up which means that the top most pieces are currently getting pushed around so that Mr Bingle is unrecognizable at this point in time.  Rest assured that WILL change in the weeks to come. 

  

 

Sheri's First Rose Suncatcher is all ground and ready for foil! Well, technically she has a few more leaves to grind but after grinding all of those pose petals the few remaining leaves will go quickly.

  

 

 

Annette is just three pieces away from completing the inner scene of her LSU Window. We don't have pattern pieces for them anymore so what she's going to do is attach the two borders which will make the window sturdy enough to easily lift and place some glass behind the openings.  She'll then trace the inside of the openings onto the glass to create perfect patterns for the openings. Like I said though, she'll attach her borders first and before she left class she was able to get the first clear inner border cut out.

 

   

 

Here's a look at Mary Grace's next frame.  She's following a well rehearsed series of steps at this point in time and I doubt that we'll see any deviation in the weeks to come.

 

 

 

With both the front and back sides soldered on her large Humming Bird window, Susan D is ready to add channel and glass beads for the eyes of the humming birds.  Once that's done she'll be able to wash and color this impressive project.  She won't be in next week but this will certainly be ready for display the follow week.

  

 

Judy has another Cross nearly completed.  All she needs to do is touch up the solder on this and she'll be ready to begin her next Cross in her never ending series of stained glass crucifixes!

  

 

 

MiMi got to change the contents of another egg carton down from 36 pieces to just 18 leaving her with three more cartons to go. She'll be getting ready to solder her next section of this impressive lamp together before you know it.

 

  

 

With all that said I will end this by saying, "See you next week!"

Paul
Bayou Salé GlassWorks

Denial and Error

 Kandise completed her Address Window and I have to say that it's one of the more unique Address Windows that has ever been made here.   The flowers are a major focal point of this design but the numbers 3027 are not lost in the bouquet at all.   This window will surely guarantee that all of her packages and mail arrive at the correct location.

 

 

Cindy has finished off the first of her pair of Circular Flower Windows and this one is vibrantly striking. they'll be another soon to follow. 

 

 

Linda L's Green Beveled Christmas Tree has students in other classes asking how she got the bevels green. The trick involves food coloring, clear Elmer's Glue, a dash of Borax, a camel hair toothbrush and ten to twelve feet of rubber tubing.  And just look how Christmassy this looks. Even Linda says that she likes it so much better now that it's been completed and is hanging up with light behind it. Now let's see how many questions about this I get next week. :-)

 

 

 

 

Zoe put the finishing touches on her Mother Mary and Son Suncatcher by soldering both the front and back side.   Once that was finished she followed up her soldering with some tap-tapping, washed the suncatcher, colored it and took it on home.  This will surely be hung with pride and devotion. 

Linda F has completed the last of her Christmas Ornaments which means that for at least a few weeks Christmas will be off of her mind.

Judy completed another pair of Crosses which means that she only has nine more left to go.   Or was it seven?  Or five?  Oh well, there's certainly more to come in many assorted colors!

Susan R was busy tracing out a pattern for her latest Gnome Ornament and once she had the paper pattern pieces cut out she then traced those on glass, traced around them with her Sharpie Marker and then took her cutter out and cut the pieces that you see in the picture below.

 

Betty has a Christmas Frog ready to be soldered.   We haven't seen this made in what feels like ages and I'll say that it's nice to see it come back into fashion.

  

Linda F put her completed Christmas Ornament away and then went to work on two Flower Pot Ornaments. These will go on small stakes and then be 'planted' in a flower pot along with flowers to give it all a little pizazz.

  

Let has two projects under way this week. Her Luna Moth is all cut out and only needs a little bit more foiling before Let solders it. Let is a 'foil at home' kinda gal and that's why she also worked o this beautiful Teardrop Lotus Suncatcher while she was in the shop as well.

   

Paula's GTO is getting its grill and license plate fired in the kiln and next week she will cut and add the enamel decorated pieces to the car itself. Meanwhile she's drawn out a two colored background which she hopes to cut while she is at home. This window is certainly coming together now.

Annette is so amazingly close to finishing the center section of her LSU Tiger Window. The only thing left to fill in is the mouth and that will easily be done next week when she also begins the double border that will surround this.

 

  

 

Susan D came in with all of the background glass ground and foiled for her large Humming Bird Window.  Once that was tacked into place she cut out the thin, green inner border which she ground, foiled and then tacked into position before cutting the final clear glue chip border.  She's again taken everything home with her so she can work on it through the week before class begins again.  She's been making GREAT strides at completing this at home on her own and I know for a fact that the final border has already been attached and the front side has been soldered.

 

  

 

 

Keri has all of her glass not only cut and ground but foiled and tacked together as well! This Praying Mantis is spreading his/her (I'm unsure) wings for a little bit of solder. It's looking great already and the best part of this is sure to come.

 

 

 

Now that Ann has all of her background cut and ground she's moved on over to the white dove (Holy Spirit) that will rest an inch above the center of the background which will give the window a true 3D effect. It looks as though Ann will be foiling glass when she comes back in.

 

  

 

 

MiMi is diligently working on grinding the lamp pieces for her second section of her lamp. She's only got a few egg cartons left to go (regular readers will understand this reference) before she wraps and tacks these together and then gears up for the third and final section. 

 

  

  

Martha's Beach Scene got it's border cut and she's soldered the front side of her window. Since she was able to solder the entire front of this after cutting, grinding, foiling and attaching the border I'd say that it's a safe bet to say that she'll be walking out the door with this on her next visit to the shop.

 

 

 

Melissa has all of her background glass cut and ground and she's taken it home to foil and then tack together.   She'll be adding a border on this when she returns because she's texted everyone in her class a picture of the window all tacked together and held up with some light behind it.  I don't want to show that picture here because it would ruin the BIG reveal when this is officially completed but let me just say this about it,"I am officially jealous!!"

 

 

Cindy is well underway on her second Circular Flower Window and this one has a more pastel colored flower in it. 

  

 

 

Bee has her Peacock tacked together and is ready to cut a background for it. She likes the idea of an inner border made up of bevels so she'll be foiling those bevels when she comes back in. Only when that's done will she cut out the background glass. This is the best, and in my opinion,the only way to get the bevels to line up with the background perfectly.

 

  

 

 

Last but not least we take a look at the Multi-colored Cat that June is working on. She's choosing her colors carefully and weighing those colors so that everything balances beautifully. She's got an eye for it, that's for sure!

 

  

Yabba Dabba Do!

Paul

Bayou Salé GlassWorks