Check out this REDFIN article featuring lots of stained glass and mosaic artist studios…..including us! https://www.redfin.com/blog/stained-glass-ideas-for-home/ Brighten Your Space! 12 Mosaic and Stained Glass Ideas to Add Color to Your Home
Bullseye Glass is Producing Green Artglass Again!
Get ready to break some glass! Bullseye Glass has been approved to use chromium again and is firing up to make some of their gorgeous green glass. http://mailchi.mp/bullseyeglass/0x0tatbmig?e=06e23006ec Happy Glassbreaking!
Stained Glass, Fused Glass at 29 Degrees – Hey Glassers It’s Cold Outside
When it’s 29 degrees outside, we have to give extra time to warm up the studio and warm up the stained glass before cutting it for fusing and cold glass projects. And make sure that the heat tapes are keeping the water flowing, too. Are you in the midst of freezing weather, ice and snow? […]
Sandblast or Stained Glass: Etching Spots on a Loon – Beautiful Detail
We have been helping with a stained glass panel of a nature scene that includes a beautifully detailed loon. So have you run into this kind of challenge? How to capture the gorgeous detail of a beautiful loon, without all of the cut lines and umpteen little, tiny pieces marring the flow of the panel? […]
Thanks to All and What Stained Glass Projects Are You Working On?
Thank you all for reading our blog and for following and liking our Facebook page! We are at 1111 – and on our way to 1200 friends/fans. Can’t wait to hear what projects you’re working on. We are completing some challenging repairs, a series of windows, and a small panel for a charity stained glass community […]
A Word of Thanks to All of Our Stained Glass Fans & Fanatics
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
