Vacation Almost Over

Well, I haven't posted recently, because I've been on a bit of a vacation. Today I finished up goblet class with Robert Mickelson(www.mickelsenstudios.com) at the GlassCraft studio in Golden, CO (www.glasscraftinc.com). Class was excellent and I managed to make a couple semi-decent goblets! Pictures to follow soon I hope, though I am having to ship everything home, so I won't have them right away...

Bette's Photo Studio

My bead buddy Bette came over this evening with her new "photo studio in a box" and we played with all the different toys and options. Here are a few of the better results. These were all taken with my little pocket size camera. The setup sure does help that camera take good pictures. The ones taken with Bette's super nice digital SLR should be even better. Green and yellow beads are mine, bluish one is Bette's. Bette even cleaned several of her beads! Those who know Bette will realize this is a major accomplishment!

Now that I (Judy) have joined - let the fun begin.

Marbles

Today I went out and retrieved my vessel from Thurs evening. It is unfortunately cracked also. Since I am using some "seconds" for practicing, and I have already discovered it has compatibility issues with clear boro, its possible (though unlikely) that the cracking problems are due to the glass rather than me.

Here are some marbles made in the past week. They are NFL themed and going to a couple lucky guys that have no clue they are coming. Determining which back goes with which front is left as an exercise for the reader :)

Spring!

Yes, spring is here. The weather outside is far too nice for me to be stuck inside on my computer... Shane snapped some pictures of the front flower garden. He refers to these as our weeds. I wish he would do something about those little yellow flowers though.

I have been thinking recently that I should do some flower murrini. Now if I only knew how... I have tried one in the past from a back issue of Glass Line but it turned out really terrible. I think there is a relatively new tutorial for sale out there. Perhaps I shall have to add it to my wishlist on Amazon. Although I noticed the other day that google now has some sort of wishlist or shopping list or something. I wonder if there is a way to hook that into this blog... Then I could hook all of my glass wants into this!

Spent today updating my blackberry to the latest operating system. So far I'm loving it! Also, I have figured out how to post to the blog from the 'berry, which I'm doing now.

In glass news, I made a boro vessel tonight. It went right in the kiln so hopefully this one will survive!

Getting Started

ok, here we go! Here's a few of the things I'll hopefully be covering over the coming weeks and months:
-the goblet class I recently took from Steve Sizelove
-the goblet class I'm hoping to take in 2 weeks
-my efforts to acquire and create some protective gear for myself
-setting up my home studio

and of course, the latest creations that the moms and I come up with!

Laura