wreath – Sherry Glaab

8 Seasons done!

Wrapped up my “8 Seasons” set project today. I’m pretty happy with how they turned out. Eight panels (each approximately 6″ square). Two for each season (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter). These will be sold with the display stand as a set for $400.

One for all seasons

I’m gearing up for hopefully my first booth in forever. Even though it’s not until late November, it takes time to make some things to stock the booth, so it’s Christmas in July here! My plan for this project is to make several seasonal panels that will fit in the same display base so you can switch out the glass for the appropriate season. The first panel I’m making is this wreath, which is just in the beginning phases right now.

Starting a new wreath — This sparkly dark green glass is one of my favorites! I still need to fill in the gaps and add some texture to the wreath greenery.

Some finished ornaments

This post is just photos of the glass ornaments I’ve finished over the past few weeks. Enjoy! I will have these at the N. Charleston Farmers Market this Thursday (Halloween!) and at the Charleston Holiday Market at the N. Charleston Convention Center November 8-10.

Little birds with green mica and a small Holly leaf.

More (adorable) ornaments

I’m on a roll with the ornaments. Yesterday I spent all day cutting and gluing these together and had every intention of pouring the resin, as well, but I got the idea to make tiny wreath ornaments and all the tiny pieces took an extremely long time to cut and place, so I gave up and poured the resin today.

Wreaths glued in place (though I did keep tinkering after this photo was taken).

I really like these tiny ornaments, I think they are between 1-2″ (have not measured yet). I am using mica chips for the first time under the little cardinals. Can’t wait to see how they turn out!

Here is everything from yesterday and today, poured and ready to cure.

I used 200 ccs of resin for this batch, which was enough to add one extra coaster to the day’s work. I might have had just enough for the first half of one more coaster, but I wasn’t confident in the amount and didn’t try for two. I will have to pour another layer of resin on both the circle and heart shaped ornaments as well as the coaster.

The wreaths took a long time, but they are cute!

I’m trying out some variations on my past designs for these resin ornaments.

Two more cute winter trees, resin poured and ready to cure.

I decided to try adding all the layers to this coaster in the first half, though there was a time lag between the heavy shells / shark teeth, then the sand and lastly the water layer of blue shell chips, which were last and the resin was pretty thick by then.