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First of many busy weekends
We have 2 art/craft shows booked for this weekend, which I’m really looking forward to. On Saturday we have the Erin Church Craft Fair. It’s our first time doing this show but I think it should be pretty good. We’ve heard it gets very busy so here’s hoping!! Our next event on Sunday will be at the Tranzac club – The Artisan Gift Fair. We have now done this show since our very first season … More
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Christmas Art & Craft Shows!
Well the Christmas season is almost here and the art & craft shows are starting!! I’m really looking forward to another fun season of setting up at all the local shows to sell our stuff that we have worked so hard on. One of the things that makes doing these shows so fun is to see how well our new products do. Since we have only been doing this for 3 years or so, every … More
Aventurine Glass
Aventurine Glass (or what we call “glitter glass”), simply put, consists of tiny octahedral crystals of copper dispersed in the glass to created a glittering appearance. The birth and invention of aventurine glass is credited to an Italian family of glassmakers by the name of Miotti. They created this special glass in the mid 17th century and it soon become prized and envied. Their process for creating the glass remained a closely guarded secret for … More
It’s ALIVE! Welcome to our NEW website!
Our NEW website is finally launched! Now you can shop easily and checkout via PayPal (and you don’t even need to have a PayPal account), browse our new products, photo gallery, see what events we have scheduled, read our blog and lots more! Thanks so much for all the hard work of Adrian Marceau (PlutoLighthouse.NET) who did all of the AMAZING programming, site architecture and fancy shmancy CMS. Some of the photos were taken by me, but … More
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How is glass made?
Sand, soda ash and lime are heated up to very high temperatures in a furnace to become a great syrupy mass. When allowed to cool it becomes glass, which retains many of the properties of a liquid.
Glass: liquid or solid…?!
One of the things that makes glass a unique material is that it’s actually considered a liquid — glass is known as “the fourth state of matter” because it has no solid or gaseous state. Even though windows and wine goblets seem to be solid, the glass they’re made of is actually a supercooled liquid whose molecules are moving very, very slowly. As glass heats up in the kiln, its liquid nature becomes visible. At … More
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Tagged fused glass, glass design, how to make, super fuse, supercooled liquid, toronto
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Thunderbolt Glass!
Did you know: When lightning strikes sand, the heat sometimes fuses the sand into long, slender glass tubes called fulgurites (from the Latin fulgur meaning thunderbolt). How cool is that!? The tubes can be up to several centimeters in diameter, and meters long. The longest fulgurite found is approximately 4.9 to 5 metres (16.1 to 16.4 ft) in length, and was found in northern Florida, USA. Their color varies depending on the composition of the … More
First of many busy weekends
We have 2 art/craft shows booked for this weekend, which I’m really looking forward to. On Saturday we have the Erin Church Craft Fair. It’s our first time doing this show but I think it should be pretty good. We’ve heard it gets very busy so here’s hoping!! Our next event on Sunday will be at the Tranzac club – The Artisan Gift Fair. We have now done this show since our very first season … More
Posted in Art Shows & Vending
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Christmas Art & Craft Shows!
Well the Christmas season is almost here and the art & craft shows are starting!! I’m really looking forward to another fun season of setting up at all the local shows to sell our stuff that we have worked so hard on. One of the things that makes doing these shows so fun is to see how well our new products do. Since we have only been doing this for 3 years or so, every … More
Aventurine Glass
Aventurine Glass (or what we call “glitter glass”), simply put, consists of tiny octahedral crystals of copper dispersed in the glass to created a glittering appearance. The birth and invention of aventurine glass is credited to an Italian family of glassmakers by the name of Miotti. They created this special glass in the mid 17th century and it soon become prized and envied. Their process for creating the glass remained a closely guarded secret for … More
It’s ALIVE! Welcome to our NEW website!
Our NEW website is finally launched! Now you can shop easily and checkout via PayPal (and you don’t even need to have a PayPal account), browse our new products, photo gallery, see what events we have scheduled, read our blog and lots more! Thanks so much for all the hard work of Adrian Marceau (PlutoLighthouse.NET) who did all of the AMAZING programming, site architecture and fancy shmancy CMS. Some of the photos were taken by me, but … More
Posted in Glass Facts
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How is glass made?
Sand, soda ash and lime are heated up to very high temperatures in a furnace to become a great syrupy mass. When allowed to cool it becomes glass, which retains many of the properties of a liquid.
Glass: liquid or solid…?!
One of the things that makes glass a unique material is that it’s actually considered a liquid — glass is known as “the fourth state of matter” because it has no solid or gaseous state. Even though windows and wine goblets seem to be solid, the glass they’re made of is actually a supercooled liquid whose molecules are moving very, very slowly. As glass heats up in the kiln, its liquid nature becomes visible. At … More
Posted in Glass Facts
Tagged fused glass, glass design, how to make, super fuse, supercooled liquid, toronto
Leave a comment
Thunderbolt Glass!
Did you know: When lightning strikes sand, the heat sometimes fuses the sand into long, slender glass tubes called fulgurites (from the Latin fulgur meaning thunderbolt). How cool is that!? The tubes can be up to several centimeters in diameter, and meters long. The longest fulgurite found is approximately 4.9 to 5 metres (16.1 to 16.4 ft) in length, and was found in northern Florida, USA. Their color varies depending on the composition of the … More