Glassworks

For Christmas Stephen gave me a gift certificate to Sandstorm Glassworks here in Lubbock. "To go make our ornaments together." I was SO excited because we had watched the owner, Lee, make glass pieces on the first friday night art trail. I had also been following his Facebook page for a month and had no idea Stephen remembered about the place.

On January 3rd we showed up at his studio at 7pm. Fortunately he allowed us to take (LOTS) of pictures during our session. We learned A LOT about the process, which I loved. Since glass has to be slowly cooled down we had to wait to see our pieces until today when I picked them up.

We got to create 6 glass pieces:

2 ornaments
Stephen's ornament:

Sarah's ornament:

2 wine bottle stoppers

A heart paperweight

A beautiful flower

Now that you've seen the final pieces... here's the process:

We started with the wine bottle stoppers first. Here's Stephen starting on his:

And me working on mine with purple in it... of course!

And just a smidgen of white:

Next Stephen made our flower. Lee suggested a little purple in it and I'm so glad we decided to include it!

Next was the heart paperweight.

Getting ready to make our ornaments!

I would HIGHLY recommend everyone checking out Sandstorm glassworks on Facebook or at http://www.sandstormglassworks.com. He holds various group workshops throughout the month.