Showcase: Fused Glass Cufflinks by The Artisan

Here's the first showcase of my items made using fused glass. The pieces that you will see here are each truly magnificent and individual, painstakingly laboured over for hours over a kiln. I thought these were all really beautiful, and fell in love with them. These are one-of-a-kind pieces, and will never be produced again. Each piece of fused glass is different, no two are ever the same. Harmonious pairs are produced, but they remain harmonious pairs, similar in almost every manner. But never identical. What an amazing characteristic. I hope you love these and take the opportunity to make these part of your accessories collection.

THE GLASS RAINBOW
Beautiful squarish dichroic glass cabochons with sheens of yellow-gold and blue, and silver sparkles sprinkled liberally all over. The colours of the rainbow come to life when reflected by sunlight. Measurements: approximately 14mm
RM40

THE GLASS RAINBOW

Look at the beautifully saturated yellow-gold and blue sheen of colours

RM40

THE GLASS RAINBOW

Truly unique. Same but not the same.

RM40

I LOVE MOJITOS

Small purple fused glass cabochons with a splendid pastel pink centre. I thought of strawberry mojitos when I saw these. Sweet to the taste. Measurements: approximately 12mm.

RM26

I LOVE MOJITOS

RM26

I LOVE MOJITOS

Small and cute

RM26

CHERRY COUGH DROPS

Small clear fused glass with glorious hints of red spattered within. Measurements: approximately 12mm

RM29

CHERRY COUGH DROPS

RM29

CHERRY COUGH DROPS

Don't these look like regular Strepsils lozenges to you?

RM29

RIBBON

Lovely deep green fused glass cabochon with a patterned white ribbon. Measurements: approximately 12mm

RM29

RIBBON

RM29

RIBBON

This picture is a more clear representation of the colour of these cabochons

RM29

CHEETAH GIRLS

Super clear yellow fused glass cabochon with a dichroic centre. Really stunning. Sorry, these pictures aren't too great at showing the beauty of the dichroic centre.

RM46

CHEETAH GIRLS

RM46

CHEETAH GIRLS

RM46

FUCHSIA BEEHIVE

Unusual elongated black fused glass cabochons with a gorgeous fuchsia-tone beehive pattern. Highly unusual.

RM75

FUCHSIA BEEHIVE

RM75

FUCHSIA BEEHIVE

RM75

OOH LA ORANGE

Fantastically-sweet large clear fused glass cabochons with vibrant orange and yellow lines and spatters. This is one of my favourites!

RM75

OOH LA ORANGE

RM75

OOH LA ORANGE

RM75

CHECKMATE

Artistically-created fused glass in two pleasing hues of blue with checkered mother-of-pearl coloured dichroic centre. Boldly understated.

SOLD!

CHECKMATE

SOLD!

CHECKMATE

SOLD!

CHECKMATE

SOLD!

GREEN THUMB

Refreshing glassy-green fused glass cabochons with dark green swirls inside- reminds me of newly-cut grass, the trees, forests and a beautiful countryside rich with the colour of life.

RM45

GREEN THUMB

RM45

BLACK & WHITE

Very art-deco fused glass in black and white, brings to mind Michael Jackson's song. Exudes stunning simplicity.

RM85

BLACK & WHITE

RM85

BLACK & WHITE

RM85

TANGERINE PEACH FIZZ

Heavenly hues of peach, orange and yellow make up these pieces of fused glass- like a deliciously refreshing, iced tropical fruit punch in a glass. I'm thirsty!

RM85

TANGERINE PEACH FIZZ

RM85

TANGERINE PEACH FIZZ

RM85

TANGERINE PEACH FIZZ

RM85

BLUEBERRY FUZZ

Pretty, soothing clear and blue fused glass. Large and bold but very classy and breath-taking

RM75

BLUEBERRY FUZZ

RM75

BLUEBERRY FUZZ

RM75

LEMON JELLY

I used to go to the night market in SS2, and one of the desserts I loved buying there was this amazing lemon jelly, served ice-cold, drowned with sweet lemon juice and sugar. They were delicious! And these fused glass cabochons really reminded me of my favourite dessert. With a hint of blue!

RM75

LEMON JELLY

RM75

LEMON JELLY

RM75

Aren't they all just exquisitely beautiful? Take this opportunity to make one of these pairs yours. Take comfort and pride in knowing that each pair here is one-of-a-kind, lovingly hand-crafted and thoughtfully presented, and you will never see any other person on the street wearing the same ones- NEVER. I am willing to bet my bottom dollar, you'd be the only person in this country to own any one of these uniquely unusual cufflinks! No remakes- only 1 pair for each design. So hurry up, people...

Crafty ADD Update #6 And More!

It hasn't been as productive a week for me as it usually is. First I was dealing with the kidney stones (I think thats over), and that slowed me down a lot! Then I got some bad news this weekend, and for once, I didn't feel like crafting! But you know what? That's ok! Sometimes we need to just rest and rejuvinate :) I'm feeling ready to tackle this week now and ready to work on a lot of projects, old and new! So let me tell you about them :D

Crochet

I'm on to the 6th row out of 9 for my first ever baby blanket! I'm too the point where I've already put together all the squares I had premade so now I'm making a square, adding it, making another, and adding it! It's not really as uneven as it looks in the photograph, I just didn't take the time to straighten it properly.

This blanket is being put in the closet for awhile though. I wasn't making it for anyone in specific (I'm going to donate it), and now I have a cousin to make a baby blanket for! Speaking of which...

I thought I'd have at least a few squares to show you by this update, but all I have is my new hook! Mom and I got together to work on the new one, and quickly discovered that the blanket I was planning on creating is too hard at my level of ability with the yarn I had bought. The disadvantage of having someone who's a master at crocheting (at least I consider her so), is that she sometimes forgets how things look or work for a beginner! So it didn't occur to either of us tha the shiney thread running through the yarn would make it harder for me to work with. The end decision was to keep the yarn (it's pretty!) but use the pattern for granny squares that I originally learned so that it will be easier for me. That's when we decided that a different size hok would also be helpful...and between one thing or another it's taken 4 days for me to get one! Just picked it up this afternoon, and believe me, I can't wait to make that first square!

Cross-Stitch

For some reason one of the few projects I was remotely interested in this week was my cross stitch - as a result, it's almost done! I just have to finish the border and then I get to pick a third book mark to make on this canvas :) Don't know what I'm going to do but I'm considering creating a new pattern...I have a few ideas. We'll see if I get to it this week or not!

Jewelry

As you can see, I didn't make it very far on my project with my first cabochon. It's going to be attached to a free form peyote weave bracelet, and I have a hard time doing something that has no planned pattern! As you can see, my brain forces me to make small patterns out of the chaos. Any way, I just wasn't really in the right mood. Besides, since my Mom's birthday is on Friday it's high time I finally started her birthday present!

That's right, the second Cabochon you see, and the work surrounding it, is the start of what's going to be a hair barret for my Mom. It's going quickly so unless I hit a major snag, I should be done in time! Don't worry - I'll take pictures before I give it to her - and hopefully get a shot with it in her hair at some point too!

Treasuries

I also have to show off the treasuries I'm in right now! I was so excited to find them today! Both are done by team mates from different teams, and they rock! Check 'em out while they are still active :)

The Color of Royalty

Feeling Blue?

Catching up :)

I'm catching up! A lot of this was going to go up yesterday, but I got some bad news that kinda threw me for a loop. I blogged about it here if your interested.

Now to the fun stuff!

First - I was featured on Theresa's blog!

http://tiltcreations.blogspot.com/2009/08/surprise-prize-and-gifts-to-myself.html

Second - Kayla gave me the "Who Loves You?" Award! I'm not passing it on because I simply don't have the energy - but I do want to send you to her blog, The Eclectic Element.

Third - I'm trying to feature my different etsy teams on my treasury blog once a week each. I just starte doing a rainbow series with them! This week is red :)

Etsy Bead Weavers

FFEST

Etsy Bloggers

And Last (but not least!) here are the latest items promoted or listed in my shops! Tell me your favorite and get an extra entry in the Top Commentators contest! Just think...the month's almost over...new winners to be announced soon!

Still Slacking...

...with no new beady pictures to share- horrible, right? I've been doing so much running around trying to get all the mundane daily stuff taken care of before my final days of summer slip away that I have hardly had a moment to get my hands into the clay (normally I would say put my hands in the dirt but my hands have certainly been dirty, just not with clay!).For those (one or two) of you who might be interested in the non-clay fruits of my labor over the past two weeks, I present.... almost three tons of flagstone!!! Ta Da!! I'm not really sure what I was thinking when I suggested to the hubster that we put it all in ourselves over a weekend. No, I was thinking "this won't be too hard at all". That was before the 65 ft flatbed semi pulled up in our Sedona cul de sac (and took a very long time to turn around and get out!) and unloaded two pallets of flagstone into our garage with a forklift. Somehow the rock yard guy's description of "two inch thick" flagstone was not the same as my visualization of what two inches thick would look like. So, we carried, smashed and placed pieces of flagstone that varied from about 50 pounds to well over 100 pounds each. Thank goodness hubster liked the end result or I would still be hearing about it!The much less strenuous and slightly more glitzy project came from when my parents visited right before our trip out to Sedona. We put a glass mosaic backsplash in the kitchen to replace the white, painted over backerboard that was really quite awful but since it was white you didn't really notice that it was painted composite stuff, you kind of had the illusion that it was tiled. All I can say is that it was BLAH! Although hardly what I would call a professional job on the glass mosaic, I am completely happy with it and my little kitchen looks like it now has a good personality at least.
Next summer, re-tiling the fireplace surround and refinishing kitchen cabinets I think!

Now in my dwindling summer break time I intend to read at least two more books - I have today and Tuesday to make it happen!