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  • MarieBarl
    MarieBarl Online Community Member Posts: 161 Empowering
    That's really beautiful work and must have taken many hours.

    I was lucky enough to be able to watch someone blow a glass perfume bottle once and he made it look so easy, then he took 2 tries to make a stopper that fit. They both looked perfect to me.

    It was very hot work too. I was melting and I was sat well back.
  • Roddy
    Roddy Online Community Member Posts: 445 Trailblazing
    Yes, @MarieBarl glass blowing tends to look easy because of the relatively quick time a piece takes to produce, however you have to work quickly with molten glass and once you begin making a piece you have to finish it as quickly as possible... A stopper for a perfume bottle is also more difficult to make than the bottle itself! Many glass works employ a "stopper maker" who is trained solely for producing stoppers.    
  • Roddy
    Roddy Online Community Member Posts: 445 Trailblazing
    @Grinchy I made that vase back in the late 1990's and I no longer blow glass due to my illness. I only carve glass panels these days, as I can do them at home without burning my house down!   :)  
  • MarieBarl
    MarieBarl Online Community Member Posts: 161 Empowering
    @Roddy you carve glass panels? I have seen moulded and etched panels, but never carved. (To my knowledge)

    It sounds lovely to me.

  • Roddy
    Roddy Online Community Member Posts: 445 Trailblazing
    @MarieBarl I'm currently doing these ones. The glass is 3/4" thick. Once they are finished I then make wooden lamp bases for them.  
  • MarieBarl
    MarieBarl Online Community Member Posts: 161 Empowering
    Oh

    They are amazing!
  • Pandapaws
    Pandapaws Online Community Member Posts: 517 Pioneering
    @Roddy I second that they really are amazing 🤩 so beautiful. You’re truly gifted 
  • Grinchy
    Grinchy Online Community Member Posts: 1,953 Championing
    beautiful  work there @Roddy

  • emancherry33
    emancherry33 Online Community Member Posts: 3,640 Trailblazing
    Condor ferry leaving Poole
  • Pandapaws
    Pandapaws Online Community Member Posts: 517 Pioneering
    @emancherry33 looks like you have lovely sunny weather 
  • emancherry33
    emancherry33 Online Community Member Posts: 3,640 Trailblazing
    Dragon, Dragon Run for the woods
  • emancherry33
    emancherry33 Online Community Member Posts: 3,640 Trailblazing

  • emancherry33
    emancherry33 Online Community Member Posts: 3,640 Trailblazing
    Out and about 
  • emancherry33
    emancherry33 Online Community Member Posts: 3,640 Trailblazing

  • MarieBarl
    MarieBarl Online Community Member Posts: 161 Empowering
    emancherry33 said:
    Dragon, Dragon Run for the woods
    Dragons and kites. Looks like a fun thing to do
  • Roddy
    Roddy Online Community Member Posts: 445 Trailblazing
    * HAPPY EASTER EVERYBUNNY *

    Happy Easter 2017 Animated GIF Images Pics


  • Roddy
    Roddy Online Community Member Posts: 445 Trailblazing
    @Beaver I didn't create myself. I wouldn't know how to. I found it on Google and thought it was nice  :)  
  • Pandapaws
    Pandapaws Online Community Member Posts: 517 Pioneering
    Lovely photos @emancherry33
    you for a fab job of the birds @MarieBarl
  • Pandapaws
    Pandapaws Online Community Member Posts: 517 Pioneering
    Love that gif @Roddy hope everyone has a lovely Easter 🐣 

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