We Don't Want It To Be All Wonky

Cindy's first Personalized Sports Window was completed this week and those letters are going nowhere! She painted them onto the glass with enamel glass paint which was then fired in our kiln to literally melt the enamel onto the white glass underneath it. Once everything was finished and she had colored and waxed her window Cindy used red nail polish and an artist's fine paint brush to make the ball look as though it had red stitching on it. I'm calling this a home run for sure.

 

Linda L made a beveled Cross Window out of all clear glass textures and then decided to leave the solder silver since it went so well with all of the clear glass that she used. It was a perfect choice for a perfect widow!

 

 

We have a new student this week and that means we get to look at a butterfly! Keri picked green wings with a brown body and I believe that it's clearly evident that she had no problem at all making a perfect Butterfly!

Mary Grace has another Frame under her belt and it's a twin of the first one that she made. I'm not entirely sure how many more of these she plans to make but she also got a lot of green, gold and purple strips cut out so that she can piece together at least two or three more of these frames.  

 

With the first third of her Lamp all wrapped in foil MiMi has coated her lamp mold with Tacky-Wax and then positioned all of the pieces into place. Even already, this looks amazing. When she comes back in she'll tack this together and then be ready to work on the second third of her lamp.

  

Martha believes I hate her because her pattern has so many tiny pieces in it. Well I'm not going to lie and say that it doesn't but more detail always means more pieces. I'll state one other thing for the record on this-- it's going to be spectacular!

  

 

Paula has begun working on a Happy Sunny Sky featuring a rainbow, cotton candy clouds and a hint of the moon in it as well! This is actually going to be the top of a box which means that she will completely finish this 100 percent before she begins working on the pieces that make the box bottom. 

 

 

 

June's Multi-Colored Cat is shaping up wonderfully and I really do think that this is easily going to outdo the multi-colored elephant that she made just a month ago. Her colors are nice and vibrant and she's grinding as she goes which means that although it may appear that she's working slowly, she's actually getting two steps done at once.

  

 

 

Lorrie got the entire front side of her Dragonfly Window soldered and then moved on over the the back side where she got about a third of that soldered as well. Consider this to be a done deal when she comes back in!

 

  

 

  

Look at all of those beautiful flowers!   Melissa is now wrapping glass and once these flowers are foiled she'll tack them together and then begin the arduous task of filling in the background.   She'll do that by placing chunks of the background glass under the birds and then tracing around them.  Once she has everything that she traced cut, ground and wrapped she'll tack them into  position and begin the process again until the entire background has been filled in.

 

  

 

With all of her Luna Moth ground Zoe has started to foil all of her pieces.  She's going to tack this together before working on the background so that the pieces of the moth won't shift around while lining up the background.  We want everything to be perfectly straight and symmetrical or this window will certainly lose a large amount of it's charm.

  

 

 

Susan D's has a lot of humming birds in the works here and they are actually  part of one large window. She's moving full steam ahead and once these are tacked together she'll move along to the flowers that will share the spotlight with these birds.

 

  

 

 

With the second side of her Flowers and Books almost completely soldered Lara will surely get the wire work completed on this when she comes back in.  You can already see one piece of long wire in the picture that she's pre-tinned so that she can cut it to the correct lengths and then solder them into position to form pages and flower details. 

 

 

 

Bee's LSU/Tiger Eyes have really come together. The LSU portion has been wrapped in copper foil and can now be tacked. Once she foils the top tiger section she'll be ready to get a border on this!

 

  

 

Sheri has her Koi Window tacked together which means that we will be working on filling in those pesky missing pieces upon her return.   With the pieces secure we will be able to put glass under this and trace around the openings to get a nice clean, perfect fit.

  

 

This is Cindy's second Sports Ball 'Window' but this one will actually have no background glass and hang as a large sun catcher. The blue glass that she used to fire the name Luke into wasn't fusing glass so the texture and the shade of the blue changed after being fired which was problematic to Cindy since there are four other pieces of blue that make up the ribbon. To fix that we are going to fire some more blue glass and then re-cut the left and right sides of the banner which will ensure that all of the pieces match perfectly.

 

  

 

Cheryl got all of her background glass cut out for her LARGE Beveled Window and even has the borders cut for the top and bottom of it. I suspect that those will be tacked into place along with the left and right borders when we next see this.  Soldering is very near now.

 

 

 

Here's a look at Mary Grace's third Picture frame which is identical to the first two. That means that the twin picture frames that she's already made will soon become triplets!

 

  

 

 

Kandise has traced out everything for her Flowers and Numbers Address Window and will be making this in two distinct sections.  She'll start with the flowers which reside on the right side of the pattern and treat that side as though it were one complete window   That means that she'll actually tack all of what you see below together before moving along the the left side of the window which contains the numbers.  This will go together the same way that Bee's LSU/Tiger Eyes window did but this window runs left and right rather than Bee's top and bottom.

 

  

  

Ann has extended the fractured background of her new window to fit the larger circle that she will build it within and then we sat down and figured out just how big the Dove should be that will reside in the center of this window.  Yep, Ann will be cutting glass when we next see her!

And there you have it!

Paul

Bayou Salé GlassWorks