Snow on our Mountain

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Snow

My son texted me earlier today to ask if we had gotten snow. Once the temperature got a bit warmer than 12 degrees, I laced up my snow boots.

                                 
                                   I enjoyed the shadows from the trees falling into the snow.

    We have a nice collection of garden art. This little girl is about the size of a two year old. She                      usually greets me as I walk into the greenhouse.

                               My favorite stone which sits in the forest nestled among the ferns.

                                       A little bit of green coming up through the snow.

            Ray's sunburst design rising above the mountains nestled in front of the evergreens.

  A sculpture created for us by Margaret Gregg to represent each member of our family. It moves.

                                                               Snow on the branches

As I walked to the bottom of our property, I was fascinated with all the animal foot prints.

                                                           The phoenix rising above the snow.

New Christmas Tree Ornaments

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For several years, I have been creating a Holiday Ornament. This year it is a collaborative effort, an Appalachian Warm Glass, LLC design. The ornaments are the same size as pendants. 

We use Bullseye 90 COE glass. The base is clear glass. The red is for the top border and covers the wire hanger. The brown glass is for the base of the tree.

Dichroic glass is broken in a frit maker. The glass is then shifted until it is almost the size of a large piece of glitter. It becomes frit. There are two pieces of dichroic glass before they are made into frit.

I use Bullseye Glastac Gel to glue the glass to the glass. I also cover the tree with glue. I use a toothpick to find shiny pieces and also sprinkle the frit onto the tree.

Two trees decorated with frit. The trees are currently for sale at Heartwood and Arts Depot in Abingdon, Virginia. They are also at the Southwest Virginia Museum in Big Stone Gap, Va. Soon to be in the Charles Harris Library Gallery in Wise, Va. Next weekend, Nov. 18, 19, and 20, they will be available at our Open Studio.

Fused Glass Art And Jewelry

 Been awhile since I have updated the blog with fused glass art and jewelry. We formed our own company, Appalachian Warm Glass LLC. The plaid plate is about seven inches square.

  A copper dragonfly on blue aventurine glass with a hematite bail would make a lovely pendant.

 My husband, Ray is the other glass artist in our family company. About 40 years ago, he started creating in stained glass. After retirement, he began creating in fused glass. All of his designs are originally created by him.

            New earrings for fall which are longer and use dichroic glass with sterling silver earwires.

 Ray has created four different Celtic crosses in fused glass. This is the most intricate of the four.

 I began creating these abstract pieces using a lot of scrap glass and a dichroic glass  for a focal point. The glass used is transparent and can be placed in a window so that the sun shines through. This piece is next to white paper.

 Copper birds on limbs that I have cut out of copper foil. This is the same bird on two different pieces                                                                        of glass.

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