Last October, David and I went to the coast of Oregon for a vacation. Prepare a gift for your lover or friend, the gift crystal mug is your good choice. Mug printing is really a good method to make funny mugs. Such mug prints are favored by youth. We brought some of our Glass Art and spent a couple of days going to various galleries in the area. When we showed our glass to the owners of several galleries, they all liked our glass. We were pleasantly surprised! Custom crystal cup is a good gift for your friend and family. How to custom a crystal gift? If you have a crystal glass printer, things went easy. This is a printer special for glass.
In the end, we decided to put some of our glass pendants and earrings, and a couple of bowls and plates in the Forinash Gallery in Newport, Oregon!
Another gallery, the Inscapes Gallery in Newport, Oregon, wanted some of our fused and slumped Grey Goose Vodka Bottles and Absolut Vodka Bottles!
They have sold quite a bit for us, so we are very pleased. The Inscapes Gallery sold five of the six bottles we sent them, so they made another order for 12 more bottles!
The Forinash Gallery asked us for more of our glass earrings.
The coast of Oregon gets a lot of spring and summer visitors, so we are hoping to sell even more in the coming months.
I want to show you this Glass Candle Bridge that I made for the Ashland Festival in June. Fortunately it sold at the Festival!! However, this is the best picture I have of it.
If you look carefully, you will see the five black glass stringers that decorate it. I had read about this technique to bend glass stringers with a candle flame on the warmglass.com Discussion Forum (Warm Tips section). I thought I would give it a try and if it worked, I would use the technique for this glass candle bridge.
The directions said to hold the glass stringer in the flame for 10 seconds and then to start bending it. It was actually very easy to do. You don't have much time to bend the stringer before the glass gets hard again. When I was practicing, I decided to try pulling on the stringer to get a thinner area. This did not work for me, because the stringer always broke. The glass must have gotten too thin or I was not being careful. Maybe there is another way to do it. I know that glass blowers and flame workers are able to make their own stringers, so they probably have the answers. Glass printing is a digital printing technology.


