Season is starting up....

Ok my job is kicking in to gear and time is running out..... I have taken pictures of the glass but have not had the time agian to sit down and download them. I have a few pics of the glow snot and they are hard to get with this camera for some reason. Still waiting for bro to get back to me on when he is going to make it out here so that I can get the shop here for a day. I am looking forward to him getting out here. So that I can take some time off and also blow some glass with him here. Also due to my job he will see some of the stuff that I have done not only the glass but also what I do for a living soooooo till them "Gravity is your friend.."

Sloth

ok looks like pictures will load....

Ok here is the second attempt at a plate. Which actually turned out pretty well. I had never spun anything out so far besides the colored one from the previous post. Well now that I think of it .....I have yet to do it again. :-)
Ok this was a bowl that I made back at Saint Patric's Day glass bowling weekend. I would have to say this is one of my favoite bowls. It is accually one of my best peices also. It is about an 1/8 thick and about 10 inches around, 4 or 5 inches high. It has adventurine green on the inside so it has a nice glitter to the inside the bowl.
Here is my attempt at a set of a glass and a bowl. It is not a good attempt but an attemp. It is ruby red and iris gold in both the cup and the bowl.


Ok I got to take some more pictures of a whole second weekend. Then a weekend of glow snot glass. Till then "Gravity is your friend..."

More Pictures...

Here is the plate from the last post. I made one or two more pieces with this mix. It is a good mix of a lot of different colors.




Here was my attempt on making an A symmetrical shape on the flare of the lip just to try something new. It is not bad for the first try I don't think.



OK bloger is really making me mad......I have time to post and it is not letting me get anymore pics up. Ok till I get some more time this will have to do .... "Gravity is your friend....."

Sloth

Found the Flash Card..... wooohooo

Ok here we go.... This is another black and white glass the I made at the same time as the other back and white one previously posted.










Well here is two glasses that are somewhat similar due to the one on the right looked as if it had cracked when it was being put away. I used this mix a lot due to "The Wife" liking the mix. There will be a few more here that have the same mix.
This is just a bowl that was about the 3rd dish like this due to the first one did not work out to well it was a plate the needed more heat.

Pictures & Glow Snot

Ok... I go to start posting a ton of pictures and can not find my flash card that they were all downloaded to in the first place. Go figure! Well thus have to download them again to the laptop so that I can get them to the blog here. I will state that some of them are from about a month ago and I have some new ones of the Glow Glass (Glow snot as my brother would call it). I think he has hit the nail on the head with that due to the way it reacts with the clear. The powder does not want to stick and putting clear on it is some what of a tricky thing to do. This is because if you ever use this stuff you will see that it just falls right off the glass. There for you do not want to go in and gather right after picking it up and on top of that it does not melt into the clear. So to get it into the peace you got to have someone around to bring you a ball of clear to place over the top of the Snot and hope that it sticks. Recommend that if you use this stuff done make a bit out of it unless you turn it into taffy and mix it all together before putting it into something. Also if you use it as a lip wrap do not expect it to move very much. Will show a pick of a bowl that was spun out and well it is ok but where the wrap overlapped it was heavy and threw everything off along with not moving is was just a pain.

Ok for colors of Glow Snot...
Fire Orange === not to great as a powder
Bright Blue === Very nice
Aqua ==== Very nice
Purple === Looks good (the piece I made with it did not survive the cool down so hard to say)

I have a few other colors but have not tried them due to wanting to get something out that did not include me working on it for more than an hour and a half.

Well got to jam..."Gravity is your friend.."

Sloth

Glass Weekend...

Well the weekend is almost here and it is a glass blowing weekend for me which I am excited about due to working in Placerville all week I was able to stop by Arrowsprings in talk with some people and got a bunch of free glow glass. As my brother would call it "glow snot" thanks to Sam there he gave me a little bit of everything for next to nothing and a little extra. So I am going to try this stuff out this weekend. For pictures, the picture download on the printer is not working for some stupid reason so I messed with that for about 3 hours trying to get it to work. Thus no pictures and maybe tonight I will just download the pictures straight from the camera. Well till then "Gravity is your friend....."

Sloth

back log no long now just being lazy.......

Ok here is the deal... I was back logged with work. Now .......... I am just being lazy due to me not wanting or having the energy to download the pictures from the camera. Driving back and forth from Placerville, also working on closing out a project for work and then sidework to make most of my ends meet and pay for glass blowing. Well hopefully soon here I will get off my butt and download some pictures and post them. Till then ...........


Sloth

back log

Sorry for not posting any pictures of the last 2 times that I have been at the shop. Got really busy at work and could not muster up the energy to post. For the next 2 day maybe I can get some time up to post pictures. The 2 days after that I will be in San Francisco for some work training that I really don't what to know, but I guess it will help me. After thinking about the training that work is sending me to, I have to perform more work and get paid the same. Now with already being underpaid make me even more sick of my job. Well enough of that... one of these days I will be doing what I really want to do and that is build houses. But till then I have to jump through the hop.

Jump, Jump, Jump......

Sloth