Thank you to all of our stained glass fans and fanatics for an absolutely wonderful year filled with challenging designs, gorgeous glass, and all of you with your terrific projects you’ve shared and some great ideas, too. We couldn’t do this without all of you. And we sure wouldn’t want to try. We wish you […]
$ PRICING YOUR STAINED GLASS WORK
$ PRICING YOUR STAINED GLASS WORK By Martha Hanson / Paned Expressions Stained Glass Studio ©2008 Paned Expressions Studios, Inc. Undoubtedly, the most frequently asked question by stained glass hobbyists today who are thinking about selling their work is “How do I price my work?” The more accurate question should be “What should I charge […]
The Nov-December Free Monthly Stained Glass Pattern is Up!
It’s a beautiful Winter day and we have a wonderful free monthly pattern design for all of you enjoying the chance to break some glass. Feel free to share the link, tweet it, post on Facebook and help us to spread the word to glass fan-atics, mosaic fans, glass painters, woodworkers, quilters and scrapbookers – Enjoy! […]
Marketing Your Stained Glass – Part 2
Once you have a written marketing plan, with goals for your year, for each quarter and then smaller monthly and even weekly goals, it’s time to create bite-size action steps. Just do a bit at a time. Come on, you can do it! Pick your goals for advertising, social media, promotion, various events, partnerships, video, […]
Marketing Your Stained Glass – First Steps
We live in an instant messaging, constant texting, ads everywhere we turn, kind of world, don’t we? So what’s a stained glass artist to do, to get the word out about their glass art? First, START SMALL. Take baby steps. Baby steps are good. 🙂 Decide to spend 10 minutes, or 30 or 60 min./day […]
What Kind of Copper Foil Do We Use on Stained Glass Projects?
As you can tell from viewing many of our stained glass projects featured in our galleries, we love detail and realism. https://www.panedexpressions.com/stained-glass-gallery.html The copper foil method is perfect for us to cut tiny and narrow pieces for small flower petals, leaves, reeds, geometrics, scales of fish and many more elements of panels. We love the […]
THE STAINED GLASS MAPPARIUM – Amazing!
Wow! The Mapparium is a three-story, stained glass globe of the world located at the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, built in 1935: http://twistedsifter.com/2013/03/stained-glass-globe-mapparium-boston/ Photograph by Bob Sacha for National Geographic
The Sept-October Free Monthly Stained Glass Pattern is Up!
It’s a beautiful Fall day and we have a wonderful free monthly pattern design for all of you enjoying the change of the seasons. Feel free to share the link, tweet it, post on Facebook and help us to spread the word to glass fan-atics, mosaic fans, glass painters, woodworkers, quilters and scrapbookers – Enjoy! Check […]
40-Year Restoration of Paris’ Sainte-Chapelle Stained Glass Nearly Complete
Wonderful Wall Street Journal write-up by Gabriele Parussini and video of the process to restore the world-famous and legendary stained glass windows of Paris’ Sainte-Chapelle gothic church. They were begun in the 1970s and are nearing completion. A new technique pioneered during the restoration will ensure that the works will be long-lasting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhsEsy-l_k0 http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323308504579082991871355218 (May need to search […]
Assembling a Stained Glass Fireplace Screen
Some of you are wondering about the next steps to assemble and finish your fireplace screen, once you have completed the stained glass panels. Here are some tips: To assemble a fireplace screen we’ve found that 3/4″ u-flat zinc framing gives the support needed. To attach the sides to the center panel we use solid […]
