Teacher Appreciation

Great Teachers Make Great SchoolsOn National Teacher Day, take time to honor local educators and acknowledge the crucial role teachers play in making sure every student receives a quality education.The next National Teacher Day will be celebrated on May 3, 2011.Give Your Child's Teacher A gift to remember!Have your Jars Customized!!!!

Recycle/Reuse/Upcycle

The Blue cobalt dish was just completed. I turned a blue cobalt water bottle into a beautiful amazing dish. The dish is cleaned,sanitized,fused,slumped,etched and wire wrapped with beads. I LOVE it! Let me know what you think.

Recycle Glass

How do you reuse/upcycle different items in your everyday life?I guess its time to stop buying new glass for my glass projects and start using what is already available. Glass does last forever. I might as well use it. My current project is cobalt glass water bottles and actually they can be used as vases with out even redesigning them.Ive decided to slump and etch mine. My first one is slumped

NEW! Glass Gifts

Both Projects from last week are finished! This is the Bird Feeder!Bird feeder With wrought Iron StandBlue Fish Hanging from fishing pole.Suncatcher!Fused Glass Fish close-up

ABC news/GMA features another Etsy Shop...harvest Moon By Hand

 CHRISTINA CARON March 17, 2011The Leprechaun TrapLeprechauns, those mischievous elves of Irish folklore, are notoriously hard to catch. But as legend goes there's a handsome monetary reward if you manage to capture one. Ann Rinkenberger, mother to Olivia, 8, and Sophia, 10, said her daughters have been making "leprechaun traps" for the past five years. But there's just one problem. "

Great news article in Las Vegas Review Journal ...Artist from Etsy

Enlarge Clos By Xazmin GarzaLAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNALPosted: Mar. 17, 2011 | 2:04 a.m. Updated: Mar. 17, 2011 | 7:27 a.m. When you go to a concert for a singer who once used a meat locker for her closet, the dress code is anything goes. It's not

Hibiscus and Butterfly Bowl

Hibiscis Bowl 2" x 4". Drawn, Etched and Painted by hand. 

New Glass Products!

The Daisy BowlThis bowl has Daisies etched around it with yellow painted centers.Very Cute and would make a great gift. it is 2'high and 4" in diameter. Many uses.Red Pepper BottlesThe Red Pepper bottles are each etched and hand painted. They are about 6" tall. Great bottles for infusing Olive Oil.

Take A Vacation

L.A. Times features Etsy shop

Gifts inspired by Lent (or Mardi Gras): LustMarch 4, 2011 |  8:31 am Through Mardi Gras on March 8, we're giving you gift ideas, inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins, that you'll be regretting come Lent.What would a piece on lust be without a mention of Hef? You can still get your hands on a copy of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy, a six-volume, limited-edition set (packaged in a Plexiglas case,

Glory-of-the-snow blue

Glory of the Snow is one of the first Spring flowers to blossom. Here is my Glory of the snow done in fused glass.It measures 10" x 6".I will be making it into a sun catcher. More pics to come....

Sun Catcher

 These are the blue glass fish that I have cut by hand. Prior to being placed in the kiln. I also fused fish hooks in them.This is how they look after being baked in the kiln. I Love these little fish! I will be hanging them by fishing line.

Finally Friday! Keeping up

Ill be posting my fused glass photos over the weekend but I needed a day to catch up with things. I will be giving some attention to my Etsy teams and making some treasuries, working on my shop, websites.Creating handmade items has been a very rewarding experience for me. Almost therapeutic. I enjoy taking that piece of glass and creating wonderful glass gifts through fusing, painting, and

Thirsty Thursday Drinking glasses

These are the glasses I will be cold working in the sandblast cabinet. Creating new designs on them.The green shot glasses will be shamrock shots. Getting ready for St. Patrick's day.I will etch fish on to the martini glass.

Glass Fish Ready for the Kiln

These are blue glass fish I cut yesterday and they will probably spend 7-8 hours baking in the kiln today.

Thirsty Thursday