Thank you :> stained glass isn't hard, it's mostly getting a feel for the "rules" and then you're set. I took a class 8 years ago with my husband and then spent 8 years wanting to keep doing it independently. I wish I had not waited so long, because I'm loving making my own patterns and picking...
I'm in the middle of a lot of jewelery nonsense right now...
Tourmalines ring design
Aquamarine diamonds hand fabricated pendant I'm constructing
Making myself a birthday present. 18kyg 2 5cttw diamond and a lil black opal I've had kicking about the drawer
Close up of the French fish tail...
I'm north of Minneapolis by a few burbs but postal code says I'm Minneapolis and online it is easier for most people to conceptualize.
It took me two days to do it, but I got there: all my pattern pieces are stuck down and ready for the glass cutter.
The two biggest ones in Minneapolis are Archon Glassworks and Potekglass. They're both in the St. Paul area. You can get a lot of stuff from either store and take classes for all kinds of things: Copper foil stained glass, lead came stained glass, glass painting and glass fusing to name a few...
I think it's incredibly accurate... the jump cuts are really fast and disorienting, but all the steps are mostly there. The only thing that this isn't showing is any stuff with wires, copper foil overlays, came or wood framing stuff. When you get into circle shape things and square shape things...
My print came, they sent two so I could conceivably make a second window.
The number of people on earth who'd want a stained glass window panel of barbu de watermael chickens has to be in the tens lol
I am making my own patterns which means I need to know how to draw and how the glass can be shaped first. Patterns are cut from one single piece with a special pair of pattern scissors with 3 blades. I am using vinyl sticker paper for ink jet printers so I can make my patterns water proof, but...
I've been gone a long time.
I finished this today after a long period of depression. It hasn't ended. Things are happening at flock Ladd that are suffocating me with grief. I love my birds, I really really do. I had plans and hopes and dreams with them.
If I had known I could bring utter...
spare your healing thoughts for my screech baby Pearl... she has EYP and the vet is giving her 50% chance of making it. She is on medicines now and I am doing what I can to help her :(
healthy pearl
He went without a name for 5 years, one day my husband said to me he deserves a name and told me his name is "noodle". I said ok whatever. Noodle it is
I have a male albino western hognose. If his mouth was big enough to get around a finger he'd probably have bitten me several times over. He's the crabbiest snake. Everything upsets him. He's 13 years old now
I used to have hundreds of geckos at one point. I sold them all to survive after graduating college. They paid for a move to a different state to start my career as a goldsmith. I miss them :( I ended up with a few snakes instead, their care requirements are infinitely more forgiving when I need...