Stained Glass Gallery
February 11, 2005
Our Home page will soon have a "Propaganda" listing, telling you which of the popular magazines & papers that we get, in are in stock. We will be listing Stained Glass News, The Score, Glass Patterns Quarterly, and Glass Art. If you've been away or busy with other things, this should help keep you current with your stained glass reading.
Road Trip Reminder!
Our little road trip is starting to fill up. If you are at all interested in expanding your warm glass abilities and have a great weekend learning from the best. Hot Glass Horizons will be in Corning, N.Y. this year on April 21st to 23rd. It is a 3 day conference of 14 of the top warm and hot glass talents from North America. You get to select which classes you want to take, and they can be 1,2, or 3 day classes. Our plan is to leave on Wednesday April 20th in around noon, with about a 5.5 hour drive to Corning, and return Sunday, April 24th. If you are interested, please contact Kevin ASAP. Our preliminary number crunching gives us a travel cost of about $1250 per person, and that includes the Course Fee, hotel, van rental, and gas, based on 4 people going. If we can fill a van with up to 7 people, the costs would come down. Dinner is included on Thursday and Saturday nights of the course, and a Wine & Cheese reception on Wednesday night. Check out their website for more details: www.hotglasshorizons.com
If you are interested, please let us know so we can co-ordinate everything now and get everyone into the courses they want. We have until the end of February to commit to this trip before HGH will be booked solid.
New Fusing Stuff
System 96 Dichroic Noodles: Black or Clear base glass, 8" long 12 piece tube, mixed evenly, $ 9.95. By the noodle, $ 6.95 each.(Grozier Pliers shown to provide scale)
All the assembled Morton Light Boxes have been sold, sorry!
Additional J-101 Bracelet Class
March 19 & 26th, 2 Saturdays, 1:00pm to 4:00pm-ish, $75.00 per person, 6 people max.
The Last of the DamselFlies!
The long sad story of the GST Damselfly Bevel Clusters that were done wrong is about to end. If you hadn't heard the story, somebody mis-read the instructions on GST's Damselfly bevel clusters, and instead of making them with coloured bodies and clear wings, they were made ALL coloured! Oops! Anyways, there was a warehouse full of them somewhere, and they were being sold off at about half the price of the properly made ones. And now they are almost all gone. We scooped up a few more in each colour, Blue, Yellow Green or Amethyst, 2 Damselflies per box, 6 pieces per Damselfly, $25.95 each and when these are gone, that's it. Back to the regular style at the regular price. So, if you like these, and we sure do, come and get then while you still can!
New Books
Graceful Creatures, by Mari Stein, $20.95, 31 pages. 15 full sized designs of various animals, but to get to them, you do have to pull the book apart.
Decorative Doorways, (with CD-ROM) $31.95, 60 pages, 176 designs in print on also on the CD. IF you're good with a computer, this could be very helpful.
Precious Metal Clay in Mixed Media, by Mary Ann Devos, $25.95, 95 pages. A good jewelry book that combines PMC with other materials to create unique works.
Torch Time, with Molly Heynis. A complete Introduction to Glass Beadmaking. $49.95, DVD A new DVD that covers the basics on how to make beads with a torch. 85 minutes.
Glass Art magazine, January/February 2005, $7.50. A inspirational, boundary pushing magazine that will astound you with the works that artists have created. There also are excellent articles by such well known glass artists like Dick Millard, Dan Fenton, and Butch Young, covering topics like painting, fusing and sandblasting.