Sunday, June 21, 2020

June 14-21 2020 Fort Collins, Colorado

In the 90's still. Been going for bike rides right at twilight because it is cooler and the colors are nice. Other than that working on glass.

Sunset at McMurray pond the other night. I have been working on making some glass basket centers. I have these precut cats in my studio so I am turning some of them into basket centers. I am also making some centers for Christmas ornaments for later in the year. These are before firing. I added more to the cats too before I fired.

My brother Jerry and his high school friend Cecil came over for dinner tonight. It was good to see them. John cooked a scrumptious dinner of red sauce, meat balls and linguine.  We ate outside for social distancing.  

Sunset from dinner tonight. We had a lovely dinner tonight with John and Mandy. John smoked ribs and John M made potato salad and brought the left overs from last nights dessert. Was great to see them. It was raining so there was a tarp up to the left. 

After the rain there was this beautiful double rainbow. I had a private appointment and D and L art glass warehouse today. They are not opened up yet. You can order glass and supplies online and pick them up or have them shipped. I wanted to buy dichroic glass and I like to look at it. So I made an appointment. Only one person at a time. I was all alone with all of this wonderful glass(with staff) it felt so special. I bought too much. . . 

On the way home was a huge thunderstorm, I missed most of it by taking the slow scenic route home,  but there was a lot of rain. Some of my dichroic glass that I purchased. I am so excited to start working with it. Dichroic glass is a solution of metallic ions sprayed on the glass at a high temperature, so the sheets are round because the sprayer is round. I wish the photo would show how shiny this glass is in the sun. 

More of the dichroic glass I bought today. Some of the quarter sheets and the 4 inch squares are on sale. I got such a deal.  Cool cloud last night. 

Sunset clouds. The bottom one looks like a thought or speech bubble from the comics.  

Some alley art on the utility boxes. It is so cool. Decorative doorway and part of a mural. 

Sunset in one of the alley's. I finished my cat basket centers. I fused the glass and then set them in resin so I could drill holes around them to stitch the pine needles to. The glass is about 5 inches in diameter. These will be fun baskets. 

I got an early start on  Christmas. I made glass centers for Christmas ornaments. I fused the glass and then set them in resin so I could drill holes around them to stitch the pine needles to. These are basket centers I made out of old glass jewelry I made.  I set the glass in resin and drilled holes to stitch to for the baskets. 












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