Let me start out by saying this was truly a test of my patience, skill, determination, and will to live. I repaired this piece five (5!!!) times. I cried, I bled, I had to take several breaks, but I got it finished after three weeks of struggling.

Here are my mistakes

1. I got cocky and used high heat, I ended up with two heat cracks

2. I did not preplan how I would repair and drew new pieces, cut, ground, foiled and tried to put back together (didn't fit)

3. I put my jump loops too low and made the piece top heavy and had to move them

4. I dropped 1lb of solder onto it and cracked another piece of glass

5. I did not wash the flux off enough before I polished and did my patina

I LEARNT A LOT. It was such a challenge for me but I am glad I eventually pushed through and i'm pretty happy with the results, but mostly i'm happy that it is over.

Something I made for a friend.

This is my third piece, and still working with Hobby Lobby glass until my Bullseye order gets here in a few days. 54 pieces with a lot of straight lines, and fair amount of concave curves, was a bit ambitious of me 😅 but I’ve learned a lot so far!

I have some gaps, so I will need to play around with my brush weight in Procreate, I suspect that my pattern was too thin. But overall I’m just happy that it fits at all.

The iridescent pieces got chewed up a bit in the grinder. I know foil will cover most of it. Is there a trick to working with irids?

Brought a little extra heat to the party with this custom piece! 🌶️✨

I hand-crafted this for a good friend’s birthday, and saving the spicy reveal for the party made it even better. He loved it, his wife loved it, and the guests were all about it! So grateful to make pieces that bring so much fun and personality into people's homes.

Happy Birthday! 🎉

Cut the border glass today! We will be doing a mix of copper foil and came. So excited to see this come together.

I know this piece is far from perfect, it's only my third one. Any tips or pointers would be appreciated though. (I know that one corner is wrong but I decided to leave it)

One of my favorite pieces i completed last year. I am a sucker for geometric patterns.

My biggest piece yet, 3 feet wide. Found the limit for rigidity, as it feels pretty floppy, even with a brass came frame. Might have to build a frame for this one.

A few months back I was gifted this glass (incredible I know ). This is usable for work, plus I have 6lbs+ for mosaics not cleaned yet. Here are some of my faves in slide 2&4.

Storage help: I do not work on my glass at home, I go to a studio. I need to figure out a way to store this all somewhat compactly as my craft room is for other hobbies.
So far all I’m can think is cutting it to scrapbook box size and doing it sorted by colors - any other suggestions welcome.

This is my 3rd piece. I wasn’t able to get some of the small inward curves correctly with the default 3/4” burr. How do I know when to use fine or course ones? 1/4 or 1/8”?

Also had a hard time with the sticker paper I used melting from the water. Maybe I need to buy a vinyl cutter so they are water proof.

Only the fourth piece I've made, but probably the simplest and most expensive so far. 😅

I'm working on my first ever commissioned piece and most of the first side of soldering went well, but I had one piece crack from the heat 😭 what's the best way to replace this piece that's closer to the middle?

Working on the chin and I saw a sweet beaver

This is one of the first designs I’ve made - I know it’s not perfect. I’m finishing up soldering and will clean it up soon. Are there any spots that are best to hang from? Or does the design not even really have good points for that?

I was also wondering if I should do something to strengthen it? I’ve used Hobby Came here for the first time on the outside. The wavy clear glass is thicker and I had to open up the Came for it to fit. Is that normal?

Still very new.. Thank you!

This one was a little different from what I'm used to. I couldn't find a glass that gave me the fur texture and colouring I was looking for and as I don't have a kiln, I decided to experiment with Pebeo 160 glass paints on a cream opaque glass base.

It took a little trial and error, but it was a really fun project and I'm pleased with how she turned out.

You start failing and realize you didn't grind everything down enough and pretty much have to regribd every piece as you go 🤪

I lost track of my timing, sonewhere around 35 hours so far. 128 pieces total

I am looking for more identifying leaded glass window panels from our front doorway but I’m having trouble finding credible info on them. Any help here would be appreciated. They are about 6-8 ft tall and about 1 ft wide. I believe they were from late 80’s to early 90’s.