its a slideshow – press play Aquila Glass School 1628 N Columbia Blvd, Unit A – Portland, OR 97217 This is where I teach torchworking classes – look how much fun people are having! I love this place.
The shop where I teach is in North Portland in an old train barn on Columbia Blvd. There are three key things that I associate with my commute to work: the train (I love the colors and shapes of the graffiti and train cars) the smell of cookies (there is a Kraft (used to be Nabisco) plant a few blocks
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Let the glass flow… Last night I had the awesome opportunity to join a group of artists at the Bullseye Glass Company to discuss KGRC. That would stand for Kiln Glass Resource Centers. Everyone is in town for BeCon and Bullseye generously hosted a meet n’ greet round table event for the owners of Kiln Glass Resource Centers. We had
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My mother had a basket of buttons with her sewing supplies. I used to love looking at them all, savoring all the little details and differences between them. Did your Mother or Grandmother have a button collection? I have one of my own now, and my collection is made even more amazing by all the handmade glass buttons I have
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I buy coupons on Groupon.com all the time. For some reason when I see a sweet deal on this website my brain says “why not?!” and I click the purchase button. They are so cheap and its such a great excuse to go out and do something I might have wanted to do. Now I am as close as I’m
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I received this email after a class I taught last night: I totally appreciate you, your class and your teaching style! I’ve listened to you teach various torchworking classes over that past few months and love how much fun you make it. I’m glad that I asked you about the torchworking for fusers – I think it is really what
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My friend Laura made these little glass pendants using images that were printed onto photo fusing paper. She pointed out that if you use French Vanilla Bullseye glass (the reactive glass 0137) instead of White (0113 or 0013) the decal looks almost black (note: its not really black, but the dark brown reaction with the vanilla looks black!) The image
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I am moving into new studio space – the shop that I teach at, the Aquila Glass School, is renting out some upstairs space to myself and a couple of friends. Its a great space, and Don is fantastic to work with. The electrician is coming on the 15th to put in all the power lines (4 kilns and two
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Monday I taught a torchworking class at the Aquila Glass School – we made frogs out of borosilicate glass. Such fun in the studio – as always! If you’d like to come join me for a class like this sometime, and curious about what you will make – check it out! We made little frogs that I call “Coqui” because
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