The Charleston Holiday Market is less than two weeks away! I’m looking forward to having a booth there for the second time (the event was cancelled due to COVID last year). It will be held within the Convention Center at the N. Charleston Coliseum Complex. Hours will be:
Fri 10am – 8pm ~ Sat 10am-6pm ~ Sun 11am- 5pm Enjoy All Three Days with FREE Return Pass! Adult tickets through 11:59pm, Nov. 18 Online – $6 (+fee and tax) Adult tickets Nov. 19-21 Online – $7 (+fee and tax) Adult tickets at door – $8 (+fee and tax if paying with credit card) www.HolidayMarket.com for more info!
I will have a booth at the Holiday Market at the North Charleston Convention Center. This event was cancelled last year due to COVID-19. The hours are: November 19, 2021 – Fri. (10am – 8pm) November 20, 2021 – Sat. (10am – 6pm) November 21, 2021 – Sun. (11am – 5pm)
I haven’t seen the admission price for this year on the event website yet, but in the past, tickets were around $5 for access to all three days of the event, and you can usually get a coupon for a discount at the above link a couple of weeks before the event. The new parking garage should make getting in and out a breeze!
I will have hand made items from suncatchers and ornaments up to large mosaic windows, and a special $400 “Seasons” gift set that includes a display stand. Get all of your holiday shopping done before Thanksgiving and be able to really relax for the holidays! Check out some of the items that I will have in my booth at this link. There will even be some hand made pendants / necklaces. I hope to see you there!
Winter Scene
Happy Snowman
Suncatchers / Ornaments
Ornaments / Suncatchers
Red bird w/snowballs
Seasons Set
Pendants, made by a friend of mine in a similar fashion as my glass pieces.
I signed up to have a booth at this small, outdoor, socially distancing and mask wearing event on Dec. 5th. Come on out and see me! All vendors will be offering locally made handcrafted gifts (no mass produced / franchise type vendors). Be safe – wear a mask!
I signed up for a booth at the N. Charleston Farmers Market in Park Circle again this year. I plan on being there only two weeks, however. I will be there May 7th and October 22nd, 2020. Hopefully the weather won’t be too hot those days. I may try to add a couple of additional dates, but for now this is the 2020 plan!
I signed up to have a booth at the Charleston Holiday Market again this year. It will be at the Charleston Area Convention Center in N. Charleston on November 20, 21 and 22. It was a tiring weekend last year, but I think it’s a great event! This year the parking garage is supposed to be finished, too.
Today is the last day of the Charleston Holiday Market, and it was a busy day. My Mermaid mosaic, Starfish Trio, and Here Comes the Sun mosaic windows all found loving new homes, along with numerous smaller pieces. I’ve made a *little* bit of room to make some new things, so hopefully I will have time to revisit the sunset mosaic I started a few weeks ago with dichroic glass.
sc flag 7pt75 by 6pt25
Palmetto & Crescent panel
Rainbow River
Colored mica set in resin 13.5″ x 30″. $300.
Corner Sun
Corner Sun - $350
Hummingbird w-Flowers
~13.5" x 30". Stained glass with sapphire mica accents set in resin in a recycled window. $350.
To make these snowman, tree and leafy ornaments, I start with white and green glass and cut it down until it is close to the shape I want. I then grind the pieces to smooth them and make them look more like the desired item (snowball, holly, mistletoe). It will be interesting to see how the texture of the green glass looks after I pour the resin. Past experience has shown me that the texture will be mostly lost once the resin is applied, but I haven’t tried it with this glass yet.
I like this green glass for evergreen leaves.
Here is a snowball in the making on my glass grinder. Yes, I do slice my fingertips while I grind the glass – I try to do a quick once around all the edges to minimize the damage to my fingers, but they still get a bit of wear and tear.
Birth of a snowman.Rough Holly leaves before they have visited the grinder.
Laying out / gluing pieces for a snowman.Laying out / gluing holly leaves.
Once I have the larger pieces of glass ready, I glue them to the clear glass ornament bases. I glued the ornament hooks on the bases yesterday.
Glued down – tree, snowmen, holly and mistletoe. .
I will pour the resin and add the detailed accents and some more small glass pieces for red berries at the same time. I like to add crushed glass “snow” under the snowmen and trees, and clear glass flakes to the backgrounds. I might cut some red berries for the holly from glass (like I did for the mistletoe), as the red balls of glass I have might be too small in proportion to the leaves I cut. I was hoping to pour the resin for these today, but I just ran out of time.
I’m trying to stock up on ornaments for my booth at the Charleston Holiday Market, which will be held at the North Charleston Convention Center November 8-10, 2019. I glued these winter scene glass ornaments yesterday and plan on pouring the resin and finishing the details today.
Winter Scene Trees about half complete.
Here are a couple of snapshots after the resin was poured and decorated, but not yet cured. I have been making these with the rectangular background instead of the free shaped tree ornaments because the tree branches are pretty sharp. The rectangle keeps you from having to hold the pointy part of the tree glass. The one ornament with the blue background is an experiment – I’m trying to see if putting painters tape on the back is helpful in keeping the resin drips off the back. All of the others I have to keep wiping down the underside to keep drips from forming, and this is a very time consuming, sticky undertaking. I tried the tape once before and didn’t have much luck, but I thought I’d try again.
Two to three days’ worth of ornaments.
I also decided to make a couple of snowmen ornaments. I really love the trees, but variety is the spice of life, right?
Glass snowman ornaments.
The one on the left has its resin coating and glass chip decorations. The one on the right has to wait another day for its resin, as the glue that holds the hook in place is still drying.
I haven’t been posting much, mostly because the dichroic window I’ve been working on has now been rethought as a sunset and it’s taking me some time to plan it. At the same time, I haven’t been doing much that is new and different, until this weekend. I decided to sign up for the Charleston Holiday Market at the N. Charleston Convention Center. It’s a big three day craft fair, held November 8-10. I usually do most of my holiday shopping at this event. This year, I’ll be a vendor!
Holiday Market Info
When I was talking with another vendor at the N. Charleston Farmers Market about it last week, she suggested that I make some seasonal coasters for the event. So I decided to see what I can do. I haven’t used any really perishable / organic materials other than shells and beachy things, so plants are an expansion of my repertoire. I headed out into my yard and snipped some cheerful berries and greenery from my plants, then coated them with resin spray.
Festive greenery and berries
I then set about inserting my harvest into some coaster molds with resin. Hopefully they will turn out well – I read a few stories online of others’ experiences with plant based embedding and there were a lot of woeful tales of things turning brown. Fingers crossed that the resin spray helps deter that from happening. I even read that some folks use plain old hair spray instead of resin spray, which I may try when my supply of resin spray is depleted. I have two types of berries on hand, one from I believe a Pyracantha and some others from some Asparagus Fern in my yard.
Boxwood and berriesLeyland cypress and berriesHere are a couple of the first batch I made yesterday.
I like how the Boxwood looks, but it is very thick and difficult to keep small enough for the mold. I used some extra resin spray on the cypress greenery in the batches I did today to see if they hold their color any better.
