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Repairs to the furnace were effective enough to light all elements aglow, but to there is no stopping natures course and since April was around the corner, travels for the summer were already in the works, the furnace remains off until this fall when things cool off. There are other repairs to make here and many other places to be there, so I do them all in my own time. I may play with some borosilicate on my torch for funzies and some drums at your parties, I never know these days;)

Repair of the furnace is in the works here, having now acquired a replacement element. I’ve watched a few videos now and had some hands-on experience with this sort of electrical work in the past, but never handled it under my own supervision. Unqualified I may be, I’m only one around to do it. Should be pretty straight forward..let’s keep our wires crossed.       Here a link to my tiktok video of when I discovered the furnace had crashed. https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdUqW931/?k=1follow along with my adventures;) 

Thank you so much everyone who has come out recently to our sales events and made visits to my website here, supporting our hotshop with such kind patronage. You have made my continued glass endeavors possible for months to come, plus, you are now the new owners of frozen moments of my life while planet bound to this beautiful earth we share. It feels as though each work I've made marks a point in time in my life, each pontil attached..a concentration of my awareness, manifesting my dreams into existence, balancing for a moment while it freezes. It's one of...

Despite the current oppressive humidity of the DC area, I must contemplate our plans for this coming fall. Within my profession there is a typical seasonal shift towards decorative gourds and holiday ornaments, which I do make on occasion, but I am looking forward to creating a wider variety of fungi forms, incorporating sculptures into blown forms and adding borosilicate parts to my soda-lime vessels to create oil lamps, just to tell of a few directions I’m thinking. I’m also proud to announce that we will have a table of our wares setup at the Fredricksburg Troll Market this October,...

What is all this pulled stuff around the base, where did that style come from? A historical moment in pre-industrialization, a style of factory blown glass from south Jersey in the early 1900's, characterized by a “lily pad” design around the base, with a spiral wrap at the top, often blown to form the standard functional glassware of the time, pitchers, cups, vases etc. offhand shaped using the basic glassblowers bench tools. Later giving way to the needs of business and industry, mold blowing is introduced and increased productivity achieved, then on to automated machines blowing bottles and etc. If it wasn’t...