Blue Moon Glassworks Newsletter
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Upcoming Events |
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• Stephanie Sersich & Dustin Tabor's Intermediate Class
- March 7, 2008
• Trunk Show & Demo: Stephanie Sersich & Dustin Tabor
- March 8, 2008
- March 25, 2008
Leikyn Huckins of Totally Fired Designs recently brought in a couple of champagne toasting glasses that she had decorated with Silver PMC for us to fire for her in our kiln as her kiln was not tall enough. We wanted to share her beautiful finished product here. Leikyn can be contatcted at www.totallyfireddesigns.com for custom silver work.
Product of the Month
(click photo to see more examples)
Photo Fusing Paper
You can easily turn any photo into a memorable piece of glass art or jewelry.
Customize your glass art with this high quality water-slide photo fusing paper. Transfer photographs or any printed design or text onto glass and then permanently fuse it to the glass in your kiln. The possible uses are endless. Use it to make fused glass photo pendants, picture frames, or even incorporate it into your stained glass designs. In addition to selling the Photo Fusing Paper here we also offer custom printing and fusing here in our studio. Contact Jim for details.
10 Pac of Photo Fusing Paper
$19.95
Individual 8-1/2” x 11” Sheets $2.50 ea.
On sale 10% off during March.
Note From Jim & Rose:
The response to our first newsletter in February was amazing. We received phone calls, emails and personal comments from customers at the shop and all were so positive. The response has inspired us to continue to bring you a newsletter that you will enjoy and find informative. Almost daily during this past month we found ourselves saying to each other "oh we could cover this in the next newsletter", or
"we want to be sure we put pictures of that in the next newsletter", etc., etc.
Thank all of you for your encouraging words and look for the Blue Moon Newsletter at the first of each month.
Come see us!
Jim & Rose
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If you are unfamiliar with their work, Stephaine & Dustin share a love of bold colors and fanciful creations. Stephanie uses a variety of shapes for her core beads and Dustin is a master of intricate surface decorations. Come watch as they share some of their techniques with us. Don't forget your pocket book and come early. We anticipate that their items will be sold faster than they can get them out of their cases. For more information, please visit their websites. Stephanie Sersich: www.sssbeads.com Dustin Tabor: www.dustintabor.com Demo & Trunk show: 7:00pm, March 8, 2008 |
| Jim's Stained Glass Tip: |
When using mirror in your stained glass project, be sure and seal the back and edge of each piece of cut mirror with Mirror Sealant prior to copper foiling. This will prevent the flux from attacking the silver and causing those unsightly black edges around your mirror pieces. Also, make sure that the copper foil you are using has the same color back as the patina you plan to use on the solder since you will be seeing the reflection of the back side of your foil in the mirror. Use copper backed if you are going to put a copper patina on your solder, black backed if using a black patina, and silver backed if you are leaving your solder natural. |
What you may have Missed: We enjoyed having Jennifer Geldard here this month. As always she gave us a spectacular class & demo. You can see the pictures of the class and demo in our photo gallery.We can't wait for her to come back next year. |
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Artist of the Month: Doug Brown Our Artist-of-the-Month for March is Doug Brown. Doug is a retired attorney and has been doing stained glass for about 10 years. I’ve known Doug most of those ten years as he used to shop at the studio I worked for before opening Blue Moon. He lives in the neighborhood close to Blue Moon and shops here regularly. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing all of the beautiful stained glass that Doug has built and installed in his home. For years he has been remodeling his home….adding transoms over most of the interior doors and exterior windows. I’m afraid that one day soon Doug may run out of places for his beautiful stained glass in his home.
Doug works almost exclusively with Bullseye glass in his creations. As Doug put it…”when the most expensive part of building a stained glass window is your labor, why would you skimp on the quality of the glass.” |
Doug puts an incredible amount of details into his work. In case you are wondering….yes, all those scales on the chameleon’s are individually cut and foiled pieces of glass. While working on these windows, Doug would come in quite regularly taking a break from the project cursing himself for starting it!
Doug does both lead and copper foil methods. And on occasion he has come into our studio to fuse his own glass when he could not find the exact glass that he was looking for. In his Toucan windows he used Bullseye glass powders and fused them to achieve the affect he needed for the coloration of the beaks and faces.
Great job on the window’s Doug! Keep up the wonderful work!
Enjoy seeing some of his creations here. |
| Lisa's Lampworkers Tip: |
The glass rod is actually a tool. If the end of my bead needs a little bump, I use the cool part of my glass rod. When I rake my beads, I simply pull a point at the end of a glass rod, let it cool and use it instead of trying to find my rake. |
We'd love to hear directly from you! If you have something you'd like to share in the newsletter, or have any questions about classes or products, please let us know.
Phone: 512-380-0770 Blue Moon Glassworks
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