Bleu Vase...AND!!!!

This vase is cobalt blue..cathedral (see through) glass...even if my photo doesn't show the clarity the glass possesses it is the perfect candle vase. I was going for a more nuggety look like the red vase...but forgot I had the kiln going and over fired it a bit...and it became the more drippy edged series i do as well more than the lace edge...still a nice vase.

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!

www.maryshuntstudio.com

Christy finished my website...I am all put together. I wish I had more past work to place up for example, but on the move up here all my photo albums were lost on the travel...I think Jack mountain got them...but as I find them stashed here and there in books and such I plan to scan and upload them MYSELF thank you very much! so over time the website will become fuller.

The perks of this new site I never had on any of my other sites (I have had sites previous to this but I couldn't work on them and over time gave them up) It has been 10 years since I had a site..
this site :::
will house a classroom for my on-line classes!
a store, to sell pieces!
updating gallery!
announcements page...and the blog can be accessed from it...

I am excited!

I hope you will check out the progress...thank you...

have a terrific day!

The Red Vase

glass is hard to photograph! this candle vase measures 5 inches tall and 3 1/2 inches wide.
day 1 in the kiln is fusing glass to make the slab that in day 2 in the kiln is sagged over a cone mold to give the draping shape...this one i call my lace edge.
It is more cathedral than the picture shows...meaning clearer where the candle will flicker nicely...another additional benefit with this kind of edge is the flame nicely casts shadows upon the wall making for a nice ambiance...

these run around 20 dollars depending if you want simple as shown or intricate design work...

thank you for stopping in!

Vace Replace

Last year, at the Dakotah Prairie Museum, one of the sales from this show was a slumped vase.

Sherri, a most helpful staff member of the museum, bought one similar to this for her brother, as a gift.

He liked the vase, so much that when it met with disaster, he wanted a replacement.

He has patiently waited for me to get to his work sheet.

From memory (a very poor memory)

I tried recreating the piece, hurriedly before Craig's surgery commenced, as he was visiting sister Sherri...would have been a nice surprise.

Except I fused up the wrong color...for some reason I was remembering a lavenderish color blue.

Well that wasn't going to work, so I did a different color, with the aide of a picture...(pictures help a lot ya know!)

I think I have it right now.

This one has a really nice draping, in my opinion perfect, sits well too.

A cathedral color blue and greens streaked together.

The picture isn't the best for capturing the piece...but the best I could do this morning.

If it isn't what they want, I will take a better picture and place it up on Ebay, along with the one I mistakenly produced.

It takes several days to produce a piece in the kiln...so 2 vases is just about 2 weeks worth of kiln work...yeah, lengthy process!

Thanks for visiting

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