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Christmas Sucky Bowl.

This is an example of a very simple beginner's form - the sucky bowl. It's a bubble except that the top half has been re-heated and sucked back to form the bowl. I believe that I made this at an Art By Fire blow your own event in the second half of 2009.

As always, thanks to the husband for the photography.

The Last Sup(p)er and the The Cardboard Robot Suit.

The husband and I again participated in the Seattle 48 Hour Film Project, where teams compete to write, film, edit and deliver a short film in just 48 hours. You can watch our short film "The Last Sup(p)er" here. The required elements were:

• Stephen or Stephanie Dufour, a wedding planner
• Dialogue: "When are you going to get it together?"
• Prop: A paint can (regular or spray paint)

Because it only appeared for a few frames, you probably didn't get to appreciate all the detail on The Cardboard Robot's suit. Hopefully, the above image will help remedy that.

An Ode to the USA Space Shuttles.

In honor of the last launch of a U.S.A. Space Shuttle, I present to you Space Shuttles in 3 forms:

This LEGO Space Shuttle is the only one of these that I've made. The set has over 1200 pieces, and took me about a week to build.

This crochet Space Shuttle is brilliant and cute. But if I had one, the cats would steal it for a cat toy.

This last Shuttle is made of glass, by Brandon Cupp at Seattle Glass Studio. Though my picture doesn't do it justice, this is easily the most impressive version of the Shuttle. (Except the Shuttle in orbit right now, of course.)

Cube Glass Paperweight.

Two years ago, I made this paperweight in my first glassblowing class. I flattened the edges by letting the glass rest on the marver for a few seconds on each side. The inner blue color is twisted scrap color (pieces from other work which broke), and the red dots are frit on another layer of glass.

Even though they can be quite complex, abstract paperweights are popular form in beginner's classes.

In a paperweight, just a little bit of color will go pretty far. Different of color (or bubbles) can be layered onto a paperweight by dipping the piece into clear glass.

World's Fanciest Butter Dish.

This piece's original destiny was an oval shaped platter, but I liked the shape when it was half bowl / half platter, so I stopped flattening then and boxed it. The oval shape comes from using the cork paddles to flatten the piece (as seen before on Mr. Ugly) before transferring to the punty.

This color application was a base layer of K20 Brilliant Yellow, with a "hot cross swirl" in K61 Dense White. The gaffer touches the hot colored bit (white, in this case) to the moile, draws it around the piece to the opposite side of the moile, rotates the pipe 90°, and draws the color across the bubble again. I had a lot of space in-between one of my stripes, so I drew on another leg with the color bit. Unfortunately, the yellow and white colors burned together - creating the ugly brown smudges. My instructor says it's probably not the white that's the main culprit, but the yellow.

This piece is the perfect size for a stick of butter. Of course, it also holds candy.

As always, thanks to the husband for the photography. Except for the 3rd photo here - I deserve all the blame for that out of focus mess.