It certainly felt like Christmas, and I was getting all the gifts! It is so exciting to spend time with Marianne, my glass-making friend. She teaches me the coolest stuff!
What do you get when you add glass…
glass-beads…
and a flaming blow-torch?
You get beautiful beads, of course! Well, I think they are anyway!
Here they are still cooling. I do hope I get them off, I really want to make a necklace somewhere down the road.
But what was the best treat?
She taught me how to blow baubles! Like for Christmas ornaments!
They are pre-made, we added the color, heated it up very slowly and started the shaping via blowing into the tube while the glass was red-hot. How uber-cool is that! The one above is half-way in the progress.
I was so excited while I was working on it, I was exhausted when I was done! And it actually requires a lot more patience than making the beads. A bead takes a couple of minutes, the bulb takes about half an hour of heating and blowing.
And even though it´s not remotely perfect, I am so proud! It´s not a Christmas-bulb. It´s a all-year-round-bulb. It has to be. I´ll hang it in my window by my Mac, so I can look at it 
OH! It’s so beautiful Janne!!! Love the color. I have year round vintage xmas balls hanging up in my studio too! I’ll have to post a pic on my blog.Hope you are having a wonderful day today!! The air is getting cooler here already :-O ! Fall is definitly on it’s way. Thanks for being such an incredible inspiration! Can’t wait to see you at artfest. Sent off my registration today!{{HUGS}} Tam
Oh she who never rests! What a wonderful piece Janne. Perfect? Perfection lies in assymetry and accidents and imperfection. Such is the dynamics in life – and so by extrapolation – the dynamics of such a beautiful piece.
Oh I am jealous!
Cheers from the land of.!
hey that’s three smiles.