More Christmas/winter glass suncatchers.
Full-on production of suncatchers with a winter or Christmas theme. A lot of them were variations on a snowflake/star pattern I like.
My glass efforts shifted from making clear glass transoms to finding interesting ways to use scrap glass left from other projects.
Rainbow colored feathers to compliment & enhance my lorikeet flock. Screwterflies! (Butterfly wings on a brass screw body!) Christmas sun-catcher decorations - starting with inspiration from the leg lamp from the movie classic A Christmas Story. The new kitchen window cried out for a transom-style glass-work. I dug into Rubbermaid tubs of cut glass dishes & racks of clear architectural glass sheets & played with ideas. I made one & was pleased with the results. I still had ideas & materials so I made another. After I tried it in the new living-room window Jan decided it would be better suited to one of the sun-room end windows. She was right. That meant that I had to still come up with one for the LR, and a 4th to balance out the SR.
No worries. Kept me busy most of the month! OK, so I took the summer off. It's not like this is a job, or anything! Am I right?!? LOL
Right! Summer was a thing. Then we had to re-arrange the garage in preparation of getting a new better insulated double car wide door replaced. Also, we had windows in the kitchen & living-room replaced. Once we got the garage space sorted & my work tables cleared I had lots of inspiration - and time - and crummy weather - and pandemic stay home/stay local to deal with. I dealt with it all by creating things in glass. Jan saw a picture of rainbow colored hanging feathers, so I started sorting through my glass scrap buckets to see what I could come up with.
Not much glass action in June. Just some more tinkering with repairs.
Doing as much outside as I can in our summer weather! Repairs to broken stained glass pieces is much more difficult than new creations.
Disassembling pieces is a challenge. I'm sure that professionals have tools and techniques that make my efforts seem childish, but I use a hot soldering iron to melt the solder seams. The molten metal drips and splatters onto the workbench, and with effort & time I remove enough to get the pieces apart. If this sounds easy - it's not! I use the broken piece(s) and what is left intact of the rest to create a template for the replacement piece. I use those to cut the carefully selected replacement glass and re-assemble the whole. After our down-under travels were curtailed by the Covid-19 pandemic I was home in Victoria, BC, looking for things to do.
I found a glue-chip box with a sand-dollar in the lid that needed repairs. I deconstructed it, and replaced the sand-dollar with a suitable one from my collection of sea shells. Also, none of my tissue box covers fit the new style boxes we bought, so I designed & built a new cover. |
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