Still working on moving glass piles around,

Starting to see progress- long ways to go--lol

all the small glass boxes have been moved out of the fabric room--yeah!

Table is starting to get less cluttered- one black shelf out, two to go

Do you see the floor?  I have a floor- see it?

Didn't do anything to this wall, just showing it off-  the work bench is buried!

More floor- it has been so long I almost forgot what it looks like

the glass blowing stuff is safe in the store room

bead wall is filling up too

A little creative-s from this week

Mosaic 15" scrap glass.  

LEGO lamp, I have always wanted to make one of these.  I might take it apart and stagger the base different.

mini blinds in the kids room, didn't really make a dent in the small toys at my house-lol

Window is installed, stained glass bulldog

This is my 4th stained glass piece.  I am really enjoying this new hobby.  Lucky for me, our house has a lot of windows!

I love how 'he' stand guard over the room at night.

I am thinking about doing a horse next.  Now to find the right inspiration piece.

stained glass bulldog

Just getting started on a window for our bedroom.  My goal is to stain glass all the lower windows and hopefully do away with mini binds- lol

 I started with the back ground pieces first b/c I really wanted to use this scrap glass in strips instead of cut it up.  I like texture and am excited about how this is coming along.

My grand daughter 'found' this piece in the scrap bin, I am determined to work it into this project!

Slow work but I am sneaking in a few minutes here and there.  Maybe I can play hookie from work one day this week and get some time in on the face.

Window will be 19 x 29--cw

 These eyes look really green in this light, they darken up as the day turns to night.

Stained Glass project- Trout?

This is a pattern I picked up in OKC when I purchased the Craig's List glass.

My 6 yr old Granddaughter, Karlee picked out the colors.  I still have a lot to do before I can gift this 'catch'.

Even Strained Glass fish need a good cleaning.  This one needs waxed too!!

Craigs List Buy- Thanks OKC!

A couple of weeks ago when I was headed to OKC to visit the folks, I placed an add requesting Stained Glass Misc. for a newbie.  (I am the newbie- just started this past fall 2011)

I got the nicest call a couple of weeks later from a couple who were wanting to clean out their garage.

I cleared my schedule on a day that the grandkids were out of school and took Tyler with me to load the trunk.  I think he also rode along to make sure we stopped at every McDonald's on the way.

 I have to brag that this was well worth the trip.  I will be working stained glass with the grandkids for many years to come.  I am now all set with good tools and a few extras!  There were several patterns that came home with me.  One is on track for being my TO DO this month!  More on that later.......

Springfiled, MO has a stained glass shop that sells scrap glass by the pound.  Whenever I am close I stop by and pick through the bin.  These curvy pieces came home with me.  I used an 18 inch glass tile to make a mosaic.  Not quite a 'flip a coin' but I did make sure if I picked up a piece I had to lay it on the tile.  Nothing was cut, even the smaller filler pieces came from the scrap pile from projects in progress.

 My glass scraps are starting to compete with my fabric scraps, it may to time to take over another room in the basement for my new hobby!!

This is the first of two lamps I hope to restore and use either in my home office or in my sewing room.  We will not hold our breath.  Both look doable but I do have a bad habit of thinking and not doing.

 and..... on the Quilty side.....  This is a resuce quilt and needed to be a cutter quilt!!  I decided to try and patch it instead of cut it up.  I used my GO chicken die and appliqued the birds to plate size circle of fabric.  i figured it would be easier to sew circles then chickens to the quilt top.

 I tried to use material that would look like it belonged.  I will add a new back and use an old blanket as the batt.  I hope to keep the older look and feel but end up with a useable utility piece.  I also tried to deal out the rooster/hens and plates in a way that it isn't real obvious that this is a 'fixer upper'. 

Not much contrast but it looks good from the road- lol

Rooster Window Update- Installed

We are working on re-doing my home office.  Happy to say the floor is looking good!   As usual I am jumping ahead and 'decorating'  (or cluttering as hubby calls it- lol)

This stained glass window is my first piece done by myself.  I have a few things to 'tweek' on it but for the most part it is done.

The next few days are going to be dreary so I may have to wait awhile to 'see' the light coming through.  I did turn on the inside light and take a peak last night from outside-  wow! 

I still need to add the 'eye'.   The stained glass is attached with clips and needs centered better.  The window can still be raised and lowered.  The clips I used have a white tape on them, I think I will try scrape that off and attach a clear double sided product.

The 'rooster' started as an image I found in cyberspace (thanks google!)  The hexie background is different textures of clear glass.  I actually drew out the background and made my rooster 'fit'.

Orange glass is expensive so I only purchased one piece.  Of course I broke it on both tail feathers.  Oh well, curves are just going to be something I have to work on- lol

I love the primitive 'look', the thick coloring book lines.  I am excited to know that I can do this!  If you can draw it I can do it in glass.  What a whole new creative world I have just stepped into- wish me well-  cw

Rooster Window is started....

I wish I could take credit for drawing out the inspiration rooster but I can't 'draw'.  I can however google rooster images.  I enlarged one I liked and worked it out.  One of the things I love most about working with stained glass is how forgiving it is.

If a person is a perfectionist (and I am not) then you can get great attention to detail, great lines, etc...  For me, all I have to do is have an idea and then it fills in all on its own- lol/

I am not sure I am happy with the 'wing' it may or may not get tweaked.

I found a couple of 'fancy' pieces in a yardsale purchase.  I added two to this window for interest.  I like how the diamonds 'twinkle'!

As of tonight, everything is cut out.  I need to grind most of the background pieces.  Then I can foil everything.  Hoping that by next weekend I can start to solder this new keepsake together.

This is my first project done by myself.  So far, so good.  The next couple of project will be way smaller- lol!

Stained Glass update

There are 4 piece of yellow to cut around the top star/sun.  Then when hubby comes home tomorrow we can decided if we like the colors.  If no other changes need to be made we can start foiling soon.

The ray pieces were hard for me b/c I wanted to use up pieces I had.  It is hard to get the random look when one has a limited supply to choose from.

I need to find a few more friends in the area that do glass work so I can mooch pieces until I build my inventory- lol

I can't wait to get to play with the small scrap pieces.  I bought 16 clay pots today at a yard sale.  I 'see' mosaic project in my future!