September 9-15, Fort Collins, Colorado

 Cold and Rainy the last couple days. 

John took advantage of the cool weather to fix one of the front steps. I am going to comb this glass tomorrow. It is wafting in my kiln overnight. It is about 8 x 8 inches.

Me combing glass in my kiln at 1,650 degrees with my fire resistant coat, wielders glasses, face shield, zetex gloves good to 2,000 degrees. I am using special stainless steel combing rods that John made for me.  In the foreground is a piece of glass I combed in my class at the glass expo in Vegas. I am trying to make something like it now. Combing glass in my kiln at 1650 degrees. 

This is what it looks like combed at 1650 degrees. Will have to wait till sometime tomorrow when the kiln is cool to take it out and look at it. This is how the combing piece came out this morning. Not quite what I had expected, but not bad. It is now in the kiln again firing to get it to spread out some. Then I will decide what to do with it. 

I painted the raven black for this piece. But it is a bit too dark now, you can't see it well with the darker colors behind it, so I will lighten in up some. The sun caught all the jewelry I have been making just right. I am restocking my jewelry supply for the winter. 

A couple of sunsets.

75 pendants and 135 pairs of earrings. This should stock me up for the rest of the year. Young men running by in last light on my bike ride. 

People fishing at the lake on my bike ride. A big bunch of purple flowers still blooming.

Sunset last night. The masterpiece is now shaped and I will polish the edges and then slump it. It is getting there.

I am also working on some  more beveled polished crescents. These are still in the shaping mode, but will be polished. Theses are only about an inch long. They are real cute, but they are so small that a couple of my fingernails are also getting shaped and polished. . .