Fun With Glass Jars

 

I love lazy Sunday mornings ......

lie ins

Tea in bed

Steve Wright Sunday Love Songs

 

and

a peek thorugh Pinterest!!!

 

This morning glass jars caught my eye!!

I love glass anyway and find lots of uses for glass jars

Store my glass rods

My frit blends

and the list goes on ...

 

After seeing the goodies on Pinterest an idea struck

Butterflies in a jar!!

 

So this is my proto type  .....

 

Here are just a couple of favourites that I found

 

 
 

 

and of course, I've started a new board!

 

If you want to follow it

 

simply click on any of the pictures!

 

Happy crafting!

 

Trudi x

 
 

Recycled Sapphire Fizz

Sapphire Fizz, originally uploaded by Glittering Prize - Trudi.

I've wanted to have a go at melting down a glass bottle and making something with it! So when a Bombay Sapphire bottle was donated to me I couldn't wait - the blue in this glass is just gorgeous!

The bottle was thoroughly washed - and then smashed!! Good to go!

I had read that you need to pick up the glass with tongs to prevent flash back, so I gingerly picked up a large piece and warmed in the back of the flame ..... it soon became apparent that this was not going to work .... the glass was cracking before I could melt it!

So I put plan B into action - I warmed up a lump in the kiln first to help prevent the shocking! And yes it worked!!

This glass is quite stiff so it took me a while, but before too long I had a section melted and pulled into a rod and went into action making these beads which were rolled in fizz frit.

I still have quite a stash of the glass left, wonder what I'll make next!