Gifts from the Heart.....

I did not have nearly as much time as I'd hoped for over the past holiday season, but I did manage to squeak in some glass time! Not much....but a bit.  Any time I can do that, it's a victory for me.  I knew I wanted to give a few things to some loved ones, so I'd been thinking about some ideas and brought them to life.

This is a snow flake made for my son's girlfriend.  This was not my pattern. I found it in a book of colorful sun-catchers, but using a blue diamond, with iridescent glass along with glue chip and nuggets, sure made it look like a snowflake.    My daughter made several different designs from this book, all in glass similar to this, and gave them all away as gifts.  I think the recipients were quite pleased, from what she said.  I know my son's girlfriend seemed to like hers.

I should have gotten a better picture of it, perhaps back-lit, before I gave it away, but was running short of time and snapped these two shots before wrapping it up.  

This pattern was my design.  I drew it up one day and decided to go ahead and try and make one.  This one in particular was a gift for my niece and her family, who really like all things ROBOT.   I will for sure be making more of these, perhaps to sell to other robot fans, ha ha.  (I know you're out there.....!)

This was also my design, and I have more of these sweet seal faces to make, but out of the three I made, I gave one to my nephew and his family, and another to our dear friend, Amy, and I still have one available.   I  would like to make some in different colors, and perhaps with a patina too.  These were not really as easy as they look, but I think they came out kind of cute!

This one is a bit different than the one above.  Note the eyes are bit wider apart in this one, and it kind of changes the look about them.  I had made one before which had much longer  whiskers, but decided to clip them at the edge for longevity, ha ha.  The longer-whiskers just don't stay in place well, so I tacked them at the nose, and again at the edges of the cheeks.


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