Fused Glass - Getting Back into It . . . Somewhat

Wednesday I got back into doing fused glass when I went back to my friend, Margaret, who has a glass studio next to her garage.. It has been a lot of fun designing various projects there. However, I've found it difficult to regularly go there. We've had so much traveling the past few months. And it will be another 3 weeks before I can go again.

Wednesday I saw this platter that I had completed a month or two ago, and since then Margaret had fused it again in her kiln. We decided that it needed to have a "full fuse" in order for the flower designs to more fully fuse onto the clear glass. 

Then I worked on this platter more - adding more leaves, a red bird, a blue bird and a butterfly.  Margaret will put it in the kiln and fuse it before I go there again.

I've been thinking of what I want to work on next. I'm thinking of doing another vase similar to this one - but this time I want to do a design completely my own. This one was fashioned similarly to one that Margaret had done. 

I also want to do more beads. That involves choosing the colors I want and then stacking/gluing glass with those colors together. Then they'll be fired into one big blob with the colors all fused together. Then I'll take a hammer and whack into a bunch of smaller pieces. We'll fuse those - and they form beads. Then I'll select the pieces that I can use for pendants and earrings.