are these beads? or are they vases? this is a spectacular colour and I have THE perfect dried flowers to put in it!

Vases - haven't measured them yet, I think this one's ~16", the purpley-grey one is a bit taller maybe? Didn't get to the beads last night, they're up next. :)

now, don't make me supperdooper jealous and say you made this!

*blush* well, er...

...yeah...

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you seriously do glass work?? WOW so cool! I wondered by the name 'glass' but it could have been your last name...

ok whatever... Well I gotta say you do magnificent work! I can't imagine how you do this.. my sister in law does glass and she has this fairly big kiln, but she has never done anything like this...

Thanks! :) Does she mostly do fused glass, then? I haven't done a lot of that - i'm too much of a pyro to not be working directly with the fire of it. ;) These are furnace-blown - big furnace filled with molten glass, long thin steel blowpipes with glass bubbles on the end, dancing with fire...

I'll see if I can get some proper pics this weekend, all I've got are some random phonepics:



Using a wooden block (kept soaking in water) to shape a fresh "gather" - the initial bubble was cooled a bit, then dipped back into the furnace for more.



The same bubble, after a bit more shaping and blowing.

I also make beads, using a small torch (lampwork/flamework) :



But yeah, mostly I just like playing with fire. ;)