stained glass – Page 3

Two Transoms

I haven’t been very productive lately as I’ve been pretty sick with the current thing that is going around of late, but I have two new projects to work on around my house for 2023. We got a new front door and a new kitchen door and both transoms are significantly larger than the old ones, so I will have to make something new for both areas. I might alter the old one for the kitchen and see how it looks, but I am pretty sure I will make something new for the front door.

The old kitchen transom is stained glass coated with embellished resin. I might set it on another piece of glass and add a border in similar white shade of stained glass to make it fit the new transom, but I haven’t decided for sure yet. I did already cut the clear backer piece of glass for this transom, though. The old front door transom was dichroic and seedy clear glass edged with lead and framed with a zinc frame on the outer edge. The new front door transom will likely feature some dichroic glass and incorporate our house number, but the design is still forming in my head. It will have to be multiple panes of glass as I don’t have any glass that is large enough to cover the full horizontal length of the front transom.

New doors / transoms — New Kitchen Door & Transom

Below is how the old transom looks when just sitting unsupported in the new front door transom window.

Hummingbird w/Flowers – done!

Here is how the Hummingbird with Flowers window turned out with the sapphire blue mica sky – photos outside in the sun. I will have this and other glass items at my booth at the West Ashley Artisans and Crafters Fair tomorrow (11/19) at the Citadel Mall.

Resin Curing on Hummingbird Window

I went to pour the resin on this window a few days ago and didn’t like the look of my hardener (it looked too yellow / old). So I waited until I could buy some new resin at a local store. However, when I got it home, the new resin didn’t look much better than the resin I already had on hand, so I decided to try what I already had open on some small projects before pouring it over my whole hummingbird window.

After a few hours, they looked fine, so I decided to decorate them (four ornaments and a festive red and green coaster). Then I felt better about using the resin I had on hand to do my large hummingbird window. I mixed 12 oz of resin and took the plunge.

After it set for about 30 minutes, I started filling in the sky / background with sapphire blue mica chips.

These should all be ready for the West Ashley Artisans and Crafters Fair being held at the Citadel Mall from 11am-4pm Saturday November 19th. Please stop by my booth! I will also have a few holiday themed paper crafts on hand.

Pouring Resin Soon

I wanted to fuss around some more with the glass in this window, but I also want to pour the resin before the West Ashley Artisans and Crafters Fair this Saturday at Citadel Mall, so I used mosaic adhesive to adhere all the glass in place – ready for the resin. I plan to use some beautiful sapphire blue mica chips for the sky / background.

Hummingbird with flowers mosaic window — Ready for resin

Filling in the Hummingbird / Flowers

Today's progress on the hummingbird / flowers window — Today’s progress on the hummingbird / flowers window. Still not sure where the flowers will all end up. Will keep slowly filling in and moving things around until I like it.

Glass, Resin

More Hummingbird / Flowers

Added some additional flowers – still working on layout.

Slowly progressing on the hummingbird w/flowers window — This week’s progress

Hummingbird w/Flowers, cont.

Little by little I am making progress on filling in the flowers / vines that will decorate around this hummingbird.

Added more flowers and leaves. More to do!

Hummingbird w/Flower

So I am taking this project in baby steps, but over the long weekend I added a flower to the hummingbird window I’m making. I plan on adding several more flowers and a vine in stained glass before I pour the resin and add the sapphire blue mica “sky” background. I will likely move this particular flower to a corner of the window, but for now it’s hanging out near the middle.

Hummingbird w/Mica Sky

I realized I haven’t posted anything in several weeks, so here is an update on what I’ve been doing. I’ve been making a little progress on a new hummingbird window. So far, the hummingbird is ready and I’m working on the leaves for the first flower. I have been having trouble deciding on the color of glass for the flowers. The mica I’m planning to use for the background in this window is a deep blue, so I’m leaning toward orange flowers, but I really like pink flowers. We’ll see which color wins out.

I also made the first leaves for the flower out of the green glass I usually use for the hummingbird body. It doesn’t have striations, which I generally prefer for leaves, but we’ll see if I decide to switch to another type of glass or stick with this.

Bird and beginnings of leaves for the first flower

WA Artisans and Crafters Fair – recap

I had a great time at my first ever West Ashley Artisans and Crafters Fair May 14th. I had an awesome spot right by the food court entrance and closest to the free glitter tattoo lady (perfect for when the little ones wanted to touch something fragile, “Look! Free glitter tattoos!”). It was a pretty good crowd for a random weekend in May. I think I’ll try to do it whenever I can (it’s every 2nd Saturday). I can’t make it in July due to a previous commitment, but I plan to be there on June 11th!

WA A&C Fair May — My spot – they actually gave me an extra table so I spread out a bit.