Bayou Salé GlassWorks: It's Gonna Take a Lot to Drag Me Away From You

Zoe's Luna Moth was finished this week and is now ready to be displayed in her window. Symmetry is a difficult effect to achieve in glass but Zoe handled it with aplomb. The colors are minimalist yet broad, as well as being demure and dazzling all at the same time. This is another fine example of Zoe's stained glass talent.

Let made this stunning Lotus Suncatcher quickly and efficiently. She loves making larger circular and heart suncatchers and one of the benefits of those shapes is that tap-tapping along the edges is so much easier than tap-tapping along irregular edges.

Cindy finished off her Soccer Ball Suncatcher that she personalized by adding a name to a banner across the bottom of the ball. The name LUKE was fired onto the lass which means that it will never come off of the glass or fade in the years to come.

Betty has her first of many Frog Suncatchers finished and this was a sort of 'test' to see how she could securely attach the eye overlays onto the frog body. It was also an exercise in bending the wire that form the feet. I think it all worked out perfectly.

Sheri's begun making suncatchers and she is out of the gate sprinting towards the finish line like greased lightening or a bat out of hell. In just one week she has five suncatchers completed and ready to sell. These only need to be washed, colored and waxed which she'll easily accomplish at home.

Lara is making three different Oil-Scopes which is a unique version of a Kaleidoscope. We will show you all the details and the amazing end result as these progress through the weeks to come. Right now though, all of her glass is cut and she just needs to assemble everything.

Keri has decided to make a Praying Mantis as her third project and this one has far more detail (pieces) than her Chicken had last week. One of the things that she's learning this week is that she can just cut out one side of her symmetrical pattern and trace the pieces out in reverse on the glass to make the second side. It saves time and also allows for better color placement.

Cindy was working on this stunning Butterfly and got it all soldered just in time for the class to end. We'll attach some wires to form the Antenna and then add some hooks to hang it upon her return.

Judy worked on a Cross Suncatcher and she got it all cut ground and wrapped which means that she'll easily finish this when she comes back in.

Susan R's LSU Plaque is shaping up quickly now as it only needs the background glass cut before she begins to grind everything for a nice, perfect fit. It already fits together nicely so the grinding should go smoothly for her.

Linda L finished wrapping her Fleur De Lis Bevel, tacked it together and then laid it on top of a piece of glass that she picked out for the background of this window. She traced around the bevel, cut it all out, ground it, foiled it and then tacked it all together. Next up will be a border for this which will come together very quickly.

June is filling in the missing colors of her paint by numbers Cat one piece at a time. When she comes back in we're going to see what we can do about giving this cat a little more life by filling in the pupils of the eyes (among other things)..

MiMi has cleared her 'board' and is now grinding away at the pieces that will make the second portion of her Louis XV Lamp. You can already see that she's making good headway on filling up the pattern with her newly ground pieces.

Bee wrapped all of her border pieces, tacked them onto her Tiger Eye/LSU Window and then got the front side completely soldered. She then flipped the window over and got a good portion of the back side soldered as well which means that this will be completed next week.

Lorrie's Peacock has all of the tricky cutting completed. The background couldn't be completely cut out until the border was cut, and the curved half circle border pieces could only be cut after the strips of border were completed. This intricate border is all based on pieces that are cut in a sort of reverse order.

Melissa is filling in the background glass for her Tiffany Styled Birds Window and she's using Fractures and Streamers to finish this all off. The glass that she picked will surely complete the 'Tiffany' effect of this window. She's also got a gorgeous border glass picked out as well but this window is already stunning even in its incomplete state.

Ann is grinding away at the 'fractured' background for her latest Circular Window. Look again and you can see her Holy Spirit resting along the left of the pattern.

Cheryl officially has everything cut out for her large Beveled Window. She's already attached borders on two of the four sides and is currently wrapping the pieces for the remaining two sides. When she returns she'll tack on the final border pieces and then start soldering this beast.