Thursday, October 22, 2009

Newest Masterpiece!


OK, I really loved the last piece I made for myself. It's the one above with hills and a sunset (which still looks way better in person). But I did the hills wrong, and I wanted more sunset, and more layers of color.
So I made another! It's even better! Boy was it hard though....I went to Big M Stained Glass on Mon and got some glass, then back on Wed because I needed more of the zinc came to frame it. I was working Wed night, so excited, and hoping I could finish it that night. As I was framing it, I used a horseshoe nail to keep the pieces in place. But I forgot to put a little piece of lead as a bumper on the the top right sunset piece, and as I pounded the nail in it scraped along the piece and broke it right in half! I was so mad! I didn't have any more glass big enough to cut another. I was trying to break it up into a few pieces, and see if it would look good, and while I was doing that my elbow leaned too hard on that green triangle on the right, below the lavender, and I broke that one too! Now I was hopping mad! Maybe spitting mad! I couldn't beleive it! I've never broken a piece assembling a window! I DID have enough green, so I fixed that, and finally decided the extra pieces in the pink just wouldn't look right anyway. So Thrs I went back to Big M.....and they were OUT of my glass! Hundreds of pieces, but not the color I needed. So they added it to their order, and told me it would be in Mon. Now, I had lots of free time on Thrs, Fri, Sat, even some on Sun, but Mon was crazy busy day, morning to night, as was Tues....So it wasn't until Wed afternoon/eve that I was able to work on the panel. It took about 2 hours, and it was done! But now there was no light. So today I finally got to see the real thing. I love it! The pictures don't do it justice, so come on over to visit!