Glass of Sherry
I set this window aside for the past several weeks while I was focusing on making memory beads. Now it’s time to get back to something fun. I found these bright glass nuggets and they just screamed, “Valentine!!” at me. For this window, I used glass nuggets, diamond dust glass chips, tiny red glass globs and some chunks of clear shiny glass.
After posting this, I realized I meant to make some swirls in the background with the tiny red glass bits, but forgot. I guess there’s always next time!
Once you have one of these windows of your own, how do you display them? My favorite way is to just display them over the inside of an existing window. Most of them fit the space (being old windows themselves). The down side is you have to go through some hassle if you want to open the covered window. However, there are many situations where this is just fine or even desirable. For example, in my bathroom, I have two windows that both happen to be on the front of my house, so if you are standing on my front porch, you could peer right into the bathroom. Not much privacy. So I mounted this Clematis flower in the window over the tub. We can still open the top half of the window if we want, but we usually just open the other window that is in the same room if we want some fresh air. It couldn’t be easier, either – just get a couple (four is really probably best) of inexpensive mirror mounts at the hardware store and screw them into the window trim. The window sill provides support, as well. See below.
There are other ways to do it, but this is my favorite way – easy and very sturdy / secure. Another way is to use eye screws and put them into the wood frame. This method is better if you need to open the window behind the mosaic, but can be tricky with old windows that might not have the best frame.
I found some sea glass I like a lot better (at Bed, Bath and Beyond, of all places!) and couldn’t wait to start the next project. This is all I’ll get done on this one today, though, as I 1) need to wait for the glue to dry 2) don’t have enough resin on hand to pour this and 3) I haven’t figured out what I want to do in the background – or if I want to add shells or not!
I see these online and decided to try one myself. I used seaglass, shells, sand and “pool-riffic” fillers, along with glass chips for the background. Love this filler for water. I just poured the resin in these photos – now it’s time to keep the bubbles at bay while it dries.
I “made” my own frit for the background from some scraps of the dichroic glass by putting the scraps in a mason jar and shaking vigorously. The frit turned out really nice, but the remaining scraps are rendered pretty much useless after all that shaking (too many scratches). The white parts on the background are what the frit looked like prior to pouring the resin. They turned into just pretty sparkles. I’m thinking I could have used a lot more frit, but it looked pretty opaque before the resin was poured, so I was hesitant to put more on the window. We’ll see how the finished window looks tomorrow.
