66 and sunny I spent most of the day inside the Glass expo.
I took John Ferrando's Decorative motifs with fused glass. John and his assistant Debbie are explaining what we will learn. With an example of what we will learn. What a great fun class. Another example of what we will learn.
We started with a sheet of glass with stringer (long thin pieces of glass) fused to it. Cut it up into 1/2 inch strips, then arranged the pieces in patterns. This is the piece I made. It is not fired yet, but will be by tomorrow.
At lunch and after class I went to the exhibition hall to see new glass products and see what was for sale. I was whupped, so I took a nap at the pool.
John and I met Karen who is here from Denver for the Glass expo for dinner. Nice to see her. This is Marti doing a demo in the Tasha's Eye class. We made pendants from anodized niobium.
I am cutting niobium, Ends up I am terrible at sawing metal. I was hoping to learn a new way to mount my glass pendants. This way won't work, I am terrible with it and it is very expensive. Niobium is more expensive than silver or titanium. A bowl on the show floor, two winners in the Gallery of excellence and the little animals are all beaded. Tasha's Eye that I made, a prize winning piece in the gallery of excellence. 4 pendants that Marti made, mine came out pretty lame next to hers.
The gallery of excellence These are from a silver clay class I took last night. The piece before and after firing. Also way too expensive for me. The amount of silver clay in this piece cost $40. Looks cool though.
This morning I took my last class. Another wire wrapping class from Libby Liberman. it was excellent. First photo is working on the pendant using a fancy tool-a safety pin. the next two are the front and back of my finished piece. Libby made the bead this is made with. Wire wrapping I can do and afford.
Fancy slot machines in the casino. I didn't play today. All I did was loose money the last two times I did. 77 degrees and sunny. John and I spent the rest of the day at the pool. This is the sun setting behind the horse arena over the pool.
John cooking dinner tonight. Reheating pizza on the iron in the room. It is lame that they don't have microwaves in the rooms any more.
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