party lights

for the past two weeks i have been making these glass cane balls instead of cups. they are to be used with the plastic lantern lights to make some fun party lights. the plastic lanterns will be removed from the string of lights and the glass balls put in their place. the show goes up next week. i will post some images of the final installation.

when you blow glass it usually is not over in the hot glass studio. most of the time you are required to do some cold working and sometimes depending on the design lots of cold working.

this was me on saturday night in my studio. grinding the puntis off of the glass balls on the water fed linisher. when it is all done they will look something like this. except hanging on the wall. fun i think.

but i do miss making cups. it was nice to learn how do a cane roll up on a colour bubble. i had never done this before and i will try to use this technique soon to make more cups.