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Published: 2005-02-02 12:05:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 1972; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 63
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(2003-4) 3'x1.5' and 1.5'x1.5' Stained glass, copper foil, glass cabs and lead solder.This is a photo manip of the three stained glass panels for the bay window in our bedroom. It is a companion piece to "Fire and Water II". [link]
This is one of the first pieces I made in the states, and I was still looking around for a suitable soldering iron. I tried to do some of the glass cab work with a 75 volt one and my temper wasn't pretty for a couple of days...
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Thanks so much! It's a nice way to wake up in the morning. (The windows are in our bedroom.)
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Amazing. I bet you have a beautiful house with all the colors and designs I am seeing-
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Thank you! I really subscribe to this whole "my home is my castle"-thing...
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As an artist should... it's also their personal museum
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Elly, it's beautiful.
I bet it looks stunning with the sun behind it.
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Thanks! It's a west window, so in the evening the little cabs look like water droplets with the sun shining through.
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how beautiful. i love the glass bead effects. (tips off the 'ooh sparkly' part of my brain 
and don't you *dare* break one as an excuse. do you have a white wall to hang extras against, or a place to store and rotate them? we do that with pictures here sometimes, though i know glass is much worse to store
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You know, that would be an idea! So far they each have their window and I have resigned myself to the fact that this is it. But of course with a rotating exhibition I could make more.
Hmmmmm, gotta run this past better half and watch expression of horror on face. (GRIN!)
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so glad i could help
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Nice Glass Nice glass selection Nice design.
Lotta 60/40 50/50 or Heaven forbid the costs 95/5. Great work One itsy bitsy thing you most likely couldn't help the Structral window framing behind the panels. Itsy bitsy. Are they cabochons or glass globs? Cabochons being polished on the flat side making it alot easier to solder.
Fantastic work.
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Unfortunately the glass panels sit just in front of the actual windows that have this stupid fan pattern. (Grrr!) I guess I could go all out and have them embedded in double panes of clear glass and make them the actual windows, but that would be rather major...
The glass pieces are cabs, so one side is nice and flat for easy handling, which - like you said - makes things much more manageable (and the glass pane nice and flat).
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If you don't install them permanant. You could maybe sell them and make new ones. If you shelf the window openeing and place them about 4-6 inches in front that blurs the framing so its not as noticeable. Any amount you can place them away from the post helps. Even painting them white helps.
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That's really an idea. Putting in window shelves would be much less disruptive than actually attempting to change out a whole window. Plus it would make the whole installation more stable. I think I will look into that.
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Beautiful as always.
I was wondering if you are selling your works? You can't have room for them all
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Thank you! Actually this is the last-but-one window. We have no more space in the house. LOL! If I ever do another window, I'd either have to "accidentally" break and existing one, or it would have to be a commission.
You're right about the storage/transport problem! First question I ask if a friend inquires about a window for them is: "Do you have a pick-up truck?"
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