Wednesday this week I had, I do believe, my best night ever at the glass studio. I made three bowls, all of which included both color and cane, and this time I trusted the process and it worked!! (This is in contrast to last week, where the best piece of the night was ruined in the last 30 seconds, because I didn't trust myself to finish it off ( Read more... )

The Gaffer is, in this case, the one driving when we're making something in the glass studio ( Read more... )

As I mentioned recently, I got back to the glass studio last week. Tonight, I got my pieces back.

( Pictures within, and more babbling! )

Thursday I was back at the glass studio for the first time in months, and things went rather well: My buddy and I managed to make 8 pieces between the two of us (usually in 3 hrs we're lucky to manage 6), and all of them survived the process and made it into the annealer ( Read more... )

Once again, I had the delightful experience for an evening at the glass studio of actually having a clue of what I am doing! More and more, I feel that I have better control over what the glass is doing. While the first 6-7 months after I took my first class, I was proud if I got a piece into the annealer and the "interesting" shapes were ( Read more... )

Have you been following my glass posts? Do you want to give it a shot? Your chance is coming up ( Read more... )

Have you been following my glass posts? Do you want to give it a shot? Your chance is coming up ( Read more... )

Tonight's blowslot was both productive and frustrating. I made a few nice pieces that I'm going to like, and I made a couple pieces that I really would have liked a lot if I hadn't screwed them up at the very last minute ( Read more... )

#1: At the Bethesda restaurant "Bacchus of Lebanon" I had the best cauliflower I've ever had (roasted with spices that included garlic and paprika, but not mushy) and what is, in my memory, the *only* eggplant I've ever enjoyed (babaganujh, much like hummus but with eggplant in place of the chick peas) - I'm pretty sure a very heavy tahini presence ( Read more... )

I had a good evening at the glass studio, which makes me happy. I finally got back to making simple blown ornaments, which I have royally stunk at in the past, but by the end of today I made 3 or 4 in a row that didn't break in the process, which is a real step up for me ( Read more... )