As I mentioned Tony and Eddy were kind enough to have this shindig at their abode. They provided a lovely breakfast consisting of French pastries from a local bakery and a fantastic homemade fruit salsa with cinnamon chips. Tony did the cow painting on the wall. I want it.
As promised the 80's "safety glasses" in action. Tony, Yvonne, and I had all taken a stained glass class at a local community college about 12 years ago but none of the other guests had ever worked with glass before. Yvonne provided basic instructions: cut away from you pressing firmly with a glass cutter and then tap the glass until it breaks on the score line. Even the kids were able to make the cuts they wanted. This project is much more forgiving than traditional stained glass window.
We used a wooden board and a plastic glass cutting grid. We had to keep vacuuming the shards off of the wooden board. A plastic grid is worth the expense if you see yourself doing a lot of glass work.
Here we are hard at work. We found the best type of glass glues were generally in a metal tube and set up pretty quickly after you attached them to the glass. I felt most comfortable laying out large sections of my project before I committed to gluing. Yvonne wants everyone to know that this project works best if you let the glue dry overnight before grouting. She also recommends mosaic grout (which we found at a craft store) versus a construction grout you would use on a floor or wall. Apply the grout perpendicular to the glass pieces with a putty knife. Wipe off the excess grout with a damp (not wet) cloth. You can clean off any remaining residue with elbow grease or a wire brush the next day.
Lunch ready to go.
A lovely pizza in front of one of Tony's pieces from his underwater series. There is a lovely koi window he made in the first three pictures of this series.
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