Happy Holidays.....

I have been working, mostly on stuff for me. I finally finished my stained glass old world santa suncatcher and he is proudly hanging on my front door. I got the pattern from Spectrum's free handout (got to love great patterns for free.). And since I don't have holiday themed glass, I thought I would treat myself to something nice.

The overall size is about 8 inches tall. I did make this with glass I already owned - I have been trying very hard to use up my stash of hoarded glass. The holly cluster on the hat is fused - the original pattern called for a foiled/solder cluster, but I certainly didn't have the paitence for that. Anyway I like the combined style of fused glass with stained glass.

Happy Holidays!

Back to work....

Last Friday we had an ice storm that basically knocked out our power for about 6 days. We spent are days in the house with the fireplace on and our nights in a hotel. Of course I wasn't able to work on any glass related project. Bummer. Here is a picture of what the side yard of my property. All ice!

Glass by Adelina is now at Etsy.....

It is time to buckle down and sell my items. I set up a shop at Etsy today and listed close to 15 items. Mostly bracelets and pendants. There are a couple of ornaments in there as well. If it goes well, I will update the store with more items and some really differant items as well.

If you want to check it out, go to GlassbyAdelina.etsy.com

Hopefully it will take you right there! Hope to see you there!

More socks....

Believe it or not my kids did ask me to make socks for them. I told them I would as soon as I had time. They haven't seen me working on them (I did one pair in just two days) so they would have a nice warm surprise for Christmas. All of it cost me under $10. Either it was leftovers from the skeins of yarn I used for my husbands socks or my socks and one of them was on sale for $3.

Back from my mini vacation.....

Nope, I didn't go anywhere. I took a break from glass working since the last craft fair on November 22. If I ever do another craft fair, I want it to be just like this past one. Last year at the same fair I did somewhere around $470. This year I did about twice as much (maybe a bit more actually). I showed up with 36 bottles, left with 2. Went with 10 small plates, left with 5. Went in wiht about 12 stained glass panels and ornaments and left with 6. Yea, it was very good to me. Lots of people were happy to see my items again, and I was happy to see alot of the same faces too. I did decide that this year I will expand and do a bit more with recycling glass bottles. It has been great to offer the cheese trays, and it reuses glass so why not make other items with the glass from the bottles.

I still have lots of other items for sale - basically I need to get an online store together and sell some of it. However if there is something you need or have seen, drop me an email and let me know. I can ship it out quickly and you can have it before the holidays!