Patience and Summer Sushi

After many mistakes and ruined glass, I finally got a glass piece larger than pendant size to fuse without a bubble, dome, or crater! For an impatient person, fusing is a tad frustrating...especially if the project takes more than one firing like this one did. I fired the flat piece really slowly to avoid the dreaded crater I got in my crab plate, beveled the edges on my grinder, fire polished, and finally slumped. That's 3 long firings... But, I love the results! Doesn't it remind you of a window awning on an old vacation home? Can't you just taste the lemonade and hear the crickets? At the risk of giving away how old I am, I'll admit that I think I can even hear creaky screen doors slamming!



"We would never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world" --Helen Keller