Martha made a Wedding Box that didn't feature any flowers that she could recreate in a side panel so she went with a single letter to represent the couples last name. It matches the invitation in color and in text without over shadowing it which is perfect in this setting.
Our next wedding box was made by Nettie who had a similar invitation which lacked flowers. Although this included some art, the idea of reproducing the house that was on the invitation out of glass was not practical so Nettie went with a beautiful double bordered box which matches the invitation wonderfully.
Tracey got the second wing for her Butterfly Lawn Ornament soldered quickly once all of the pieces made it into the shop. The two wings were then tacked together at an angle and the black body that was tacked on top hides the seam where the wings join as well as the solder where the antennae connect to the wings. The end result is a beautiful Butterfly!
Let put the finishing touches on her Virgin Mary Panel and her final choice for the border matched Mary's robes wonderfully. I always prefer my border choice to align with another color in the window while not matching it perfectly and that's just what Let did here hence the exquisite result.
Bee has begun a window that she has designed herself featuring Roses and Hearts made of intertwining vines. It's fairly large but she's already muscled through most of the first of four flowers in this by having it all cut out with most of the pieces having been ground as well.
We haven't seen this done in a while but when Paula decided that she wanted to make a Cross and saw this pattern she just knew that it was the one she would be making. The angle of the cross and Paula's perfect choice of glass give this a wonderful 3D effect even though it truly is a flat suncatcher.
June began cutting the glass for her Seahorse Window and has decided to grind her pieces as she cuts them. Just a cursory glance easily reveals how precise June's cutting and grinding skills are.
Meanwhile Cheryl has begun cutting the glass for her Buffalo Bills Football Helmet Window. She started by cutting our her background using a white baroque that swirls and flows in every direction imaginable.
Keri's large Skull Suncatcher was all cut out last week and this week it was ground in its entirety. She said that grinding it was difficult only because she realized that the skull wasn't perfectly symmetrical and it took a lot of effort on her part not to grind them to match. Still, she got the job done and it will actually look much better like this. The skull would look 'odd' if done perfectly symmetrical.
Kandise is, as always, just whipping through her new Circular Magnolia project. The flower petals are almost completely cut out and she has them almost completely ground as well. She'll most likely begin working on cutting out the leaves when she next returns.
And speaking of Circular Magnolias we see that Tracey not only finished off her Lawn Ornament Butterfly but resumed work on her Magnolia as well. She's hard at work on the leaves and you can easily see just what she has left to complete because the pattern pieces really stand out when resting atop the pattern. Because of her speediness on this you might suspect that Magnolias are easy to make but rest assured they are no easier than any other window.
Let also finished up the work on this large Teardrop Suncatcher made from assorted clear textures. She would have finished it off completely but she plans on hanging a crystal of some sort in the center. We'll see just what she picks when this comes back next week in its completed form.
After her Irises had their leaves redrawn Barbara sat down and not only cut the leaves out but the background as well. She's about to begin grinding all of these pieces but you can already clearly see what the finished window will be looking like.
In all honesty I'm not sure what side of this Butterfly that Cindy is making is harder to work on. She's already got 95% of the left flower side cut out as well as ground which I initially thought would be the hardest part but after looking at the right side I believe that there IS no easier side! I'm still thinking that Cindy will make it all look easy though.
With the last of her four birds nearly completed Susan R will next be working on the branch and the birds feet. These are the smallest pieces in her project and the more I think about it I believe that the best thing for her to do is to tack the birds together to make grinding the remaining pieces so much easier.
Lorrie would have had her background completely cut AND ground but one of the longer pieces snapped in half and she didn't have any glue chip with her to replace it. No matter, she simply began foiling and will replace the broken piece when she gets home. This is a window that just bursts into life with color.
With each passing week MiMi's perfect soldering travels further and further down her lamp. She's beyond the halfway point now but as she moves downward the lamp gets wider which means that she can't spin it as fast due to the fact that there are more lines to solder in each revolution. That said, she's impressively spinning away on this!
Lastly again, I though it would take Mary months upon months to make this window but she's so excited about it that she never stops working on it! And I have to commend her for deciding to replace all of the background glass that she cut out while she was at home last week. She asked everyone what they thought if it and almost everyone agreed that the gray she had used was not the best choice in a window this vibrant. She agreed and will be cutting new background pieces out of a gorgeous clear light blue.
So there you have it. Remember, don't just dream it-- make it happen!
Paul
Bayou Salé GlassWorks
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