It's Bubblewrap Not Gunfire

And just like that, Kandise completed her second (and final) Corner Accent Piece.  It's a mirror image of the first one that she made and the pair is going to make a lovely addition to whichever room she decides to hang these in (she's currently unsure). I think it's safe to say that Kandise agrees with me when I say that I have no problem making a single item but the second time around the same block can sometimes be a long haul because I'll be desperate to move onto something new.  That said, Kandise did a great job on this and her skills just keep getting better and better.

Betty is the first out the door with our new Cross Design.  This is a popular image during Lent and Easter. The cross itself represents the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for humanity while the cloth draped over it represents the shroud or burial cloth that wrapped Jesus' body. Betty's 'cloth' was cut using iridized white that you can only barely see in the photo below but which adds so much to this suncatcher.

 

 

 

Linda F's Bird of Paradise Window needed a background and once that was selected she made short work of cutting it out.  She then moved on over to the grinder and got a good deal of the bottom of the window ground.   At this rate this flower will be ready to be foiled after her next class.

 

Now that her Fractures and Streamers glass has arrived Lara has resumed work on her Louisiana Collage Window. Lara got her background pieces cut, ground and attached and then she selected a border and got it ready for grinding and foiling. As you can see, her window has really come together nicely and THAT'S what I call progress! 

  

 

We haven't seen this for a while now but Lorrie's got close to two thirds of the water now cut and ground for her Underwater Scene Window. It looks as though she'll be ready to solder this sooner than I ever would have thought because she's moving through it like a shark through water.

  

 

 

And Lorrie isn't content with working on just one window. She's also working on her Sugar Elephants as well! She's been working from right to left and she's just getting into the Large elephant now. This fits together wonderfully and it's looking rather magnificent if I do say so myself.

 

  

 

 

No, you haven't seen these Festive Fleur De Lis' before even though you may think that you have.  Annette is the person who started the ball rolling with this now popular pattern and she doesn't have just one under construction-- like Lorrie she has two items in the works!   One of them had been ground and is almost completely wrapped in foil while the other is awaiting a trip to the grinder.  She may not have been around for the past few weeks but Annette has certainly been busy working at home!

 

  

 

Our next Festive Fleur De Lis is being made by Cindy and with all of her pieces cut out she's only got a few pieces of border glass left to grind. I love the different color schemes that we are seeing in these. They are certainly similar but also most certainly distinctively different.

 

 

This next Festive Fleur De Lis is Martha's unique interpretation. Again the pattern is the same as the others with her colors beginning completely different. Martha has gone with a more colorful center which is bordered by a solid yellow making this the third distinctive version on a similar theme this week.

 

  

 

 

Zoe's Duck has been ground and foiled which means that she's ready to tack this together. Once that's done she won't have to worry about pieces of feathers shift all around as she grinds the water, leaves and sky pieces into place. In other words, things are going to be easier for Zoe now that the small pieces have been secured.

 

 

 

Let came in and set her Rooster Window that she had ground and tacked together while at home onto the table and then proudly exclaimed that she now officially liked her window.  Last week she was sort of up in the air about it but she said that the turning point came when she was able to hold this up to get some light behind it.  Once it was lit up Let was able to feel good about the work she had put into it.  That means that although you may think this looks great now, just wait until you see it hanging up.

 

 

 

Bee is VERY close to finishing her Tribute Window as all of her pieces have been cut and ground. She's also selected the perfect border glass and got that cut out into its various lengths. She'll skim those, wrap them in foil and then begin soldering! She's also thinking about adding a Dandelion center in the clear textured pieces by using etching cream to forma dense center in the textured glass. I think it's a great idea and we'll see how that turns out when (and if) Bee decides to go that route.

 

  

 

With all of the pieces of her Rounded Cross Window ground (save for the border which we always do AFTER the center has been tacked together) Barbara has taken this home so she can wrap it in foil and then tack it together. Once that is done she'll fit the border into place and this will be ready to be soldered.

 

  

 

MiMi has almost all of the glass cut for her lamp with only some green left to go. That means that she's cut out three pieces of almost all of the pieces that you see in the lamp pattern below. The green only takes up a half a square foot of glass so I'm sure that she'll have that cut out upon her return.

 

  

And that as they say is that!

 

Persistently yours,

Paul

Bayou Salé GlassWorks