Today was the last glassblowing class for me 'n' Jeannie.  The goal?  To make cups and bowls.

I was not off to a promising start:


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Everyone was sluggish and out of it in glass class tonight.  Maybe we were all thrown off because it wasn't our usual night.  We were meeting on a Monday to make up for the canceled class two weeks back.  Tonight's goal was to make a glass spheres and bowls.  If we did a good job on the sphere, Esteban said, it would bounce when we dropped it ( Read more... )

So the results of my first Glassblowing 1A class were three hideous little flowers. They're like misshapen demon blossoms, malformed and repugnant.


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Jeannie and I went to the first session of our Glassblowing 1A class.  We had met our instructor previously, when we did a Groupon class, and he remembered us, which was cool.  Right away, though, he dropped a bombshell - he's moving to New York City at the end of the month!  I mean, that's awesome for his career as an artist, but he's such a great ( Read more... )

So, last month Jeans and I went glassblowing once again - this time, to make a glass bowl.  If mine turned out well, I hoped to give it to my mother as a Christmas gift, since I still hadn't quite sorted her present out.  I don't know why I never wrote about it - I probably just figured that at this point, I've talked about glassblowing often ( Read more... )

Today I made a glass pumpkin!

Well, sorta.  By "sorta" I mean not really.  Let me explain.  I signed up for a 'Glass Pumpkin Experience' at BAGI with Jeannie.  However, it was not a class - at least, not the kind that we expected.  When we arrived at the studio, we were told to pick out the colors we wanted for our pumpkin and its stem - and then we ( Read more... )

Yesterday Jeannie picked up the glass floats that we made at Bay Area Glass Institute last week.

Mine turned out pretty cool-looking, if I do say so myself:


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Jeannie and I went glassblowing tonight at the Bay Area Glass Institute, and it was awesome.  Naturally.  We almost didn't do it; some guy had brought a bunch of friends with him that weren't registered on the website, so that having normal maximum of four people in the class, there were seven.  Our instructor wasn't pleased, so while he was on the ( Read more... )

I got the pieces from Monday night's glass blowing class back - yaaaaaaay!


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Tonight was fun.

Jeannie and I went to a glass-blowing class at the Bay Area Glass Institute, and were lucky enough to have a tiny class of only three people. Talk about personalized attention! We had a lot of fun talking with the instructor, a cheerful artist named Ryan as he demoed how to make a glass flower and a heavy paperweight. To be honest ( Read more... )