{"id":422,"date":"2011-06-14T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2011-06-14T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T16:00:08","slug":"fused-glass-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Fused Glass Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

So due to being crazy busy, I hadn’t had the time to go play with glass since February<\/a>. \u00a0Every Thursday since then I’ve had plans that haven’t allowed me to go to the glass workshop. \u00a0However, a couple weeks ago I had a free Thursday afternoon, so I headed over to Eagle Rock to do some new creations:<\/p>\n

I mostly did some more window vases. \u00a0I had given some away and so my front window was looking a (little) bit bare. \u00a0Here are the five window vases I created:<\/p>\n

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This one was my favorite. \u00a0Definitely a lot of work — lots of cleaning and positioning, but I just think it’s so neat looking — the textures and the colors.<\/p>\n

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This one is pretty simple — just green and purple pieces arranged diagonally.<\/p>\n

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I also learned how to use the glass cutting saw at this workshop…pretty easy to use, although I definitely need more practice in order to get shapes just how I want them to be.<\/p>\n

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For this one, I thought it would be fun to explore using a glass other than clear. \u00a0I also put in some of the tiles<\/a> that I made last time.<\/p>\n

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For this one, I used the iridescent stringer glass and then placed various shards of glass to go along with the pattern of the stringers. \u00a0Funny thing — so yellow and orange glass, before fused, look exactly the same. \u00a0Those orange pieces I thought were going to be yellow…so it was a surprise when I saw this finished piece! \u00a0I think it still looks good.<\/p>\n

Then I got thinking…what else can I make besides window vases? \u00a0And then I thought perhaps I could try to make some pendants. \u00a0So, I tried a couple pieces:<\/p>\n

The first, I tried to make right with these pieces I created earlier<\/a>, only to be supremely disappointed with this:<\/p>\n

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I suppose I could make it into a magnet. \u00a0Or, the beauty of glass is that I can just try to keep melting it and see what I eventually get.<\/p>\n

The second pendant I tried making to match these potential earrings that I made<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The result (piece in foreground)? \u00a0Not great, but not bad. \u00a0Definitely could practice more with pendants and earrings…something to explore on future Thursdays I have free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So due to being crazy busy, I hadn’t had the time to go play with glass since February. \u00a0Every Thursday since then I’ve had plans that haven’t allowed me to go to the glass workshop. \u00a0However, a couple weeks ago … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,97,158,187,261,367,388,392],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}