Glassy Blue Pretties

I was messing around in the studio last night, finishing some requested items, and while I was waiting for some metal to cool -- no more touching with hands, no no NO --- my eyes turned toward some fused dichroic glass cabochons I'd made earlier in the year.

I guess with all the sparklies and shiny things at this holiday season, I thought about brilliant beautiful glass.

I had originally intended the pewter setting to become a faux antique wristwatch - and I still plan to make one, with a stretchy band full of dark beads or hand dyed pearls - but it was a great coincidence that the glass just fit into the setting.

It was meant to be!


This is part of the reason why I don't clean up the studio, sometimes setting something down next to something else sparks an idea. At least, that's the reason I give myself.

At 10:00 pm my hubby came down to the basement and asked if I knew what time it was.

At the time I had on a headscarf, safety glasses and a respirator. Oooh, scary looking! I nodded that I knew what time it was and kept working away.


And this is the result. I added some semi-precious stone chips, and then a cast pewter cross that seemed in the same style.


I love the dichroic glass, how it shines and changes color as the light moves on it. It's hard to capture in photographs, it looks like it has a blue flame inside. I must cut and fuse some more glass cabochons this weekend and get them into the kiln, I must!

Anyway, I felt I must "test wear" this piece today. Just to be sure it's really as pretty as I thought.

I had to do it!