I just got back from my trip to Las Vegas where I attended the 2010 Glass Craft and Bead Expo. This year I took fused glass class. I took a two-day advanced fused glass bowls class with Patty Gray and a 1 day glass manipulation class with Larry Cimaglio.
In Part 1 of my series on how I make Recycled Glass Wine Bottle Cheese Boards, we had just finished cleaning our wine bottles really, really, really well. What’s next? Well, first…
This morning I opened the kiln to find my champagne bottle and wine bottle had fused together.
The first thing needed to make a recycled wine bottle cheese board is, of course, an empty wine bottle. Collecting empty wine bottles can be, without a doubt, the most fun part of the project.
The first title I considered for this blog post was “The Art of Making a Wine Bottle Cheese Board.” But truth be told, I don’t consider flattening a wine bottle in my kiln “art.” In fact, it is more science than art. More than once I had a flash back to my high school science class. Remember studying the scientific method?
Remember the fused glass screen melt I did a while back? The one that damaged my kiln shelf! Yes, I’m still mad about that. Well out of the ashes arose this beauty.
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