Last week my husband and I spent some time with friends at a wine social. Cedar Landing, a local restaurant, hosts a Wine Social on the Patio the third Thursday of the month. The restaurant has a great patio where you can sit outside and catch the breezes from Lake Houston. Unfortunately, with the crazy…
I’ve been experimenting with a wine bottle swirl mold for a few weeks now. I finally have it the way I want it. Lessons Learned - Use light colored bottles. The swirl pattern will not show through dark glass. - Fuse flat first. I got the best results by fusing the bottles flat before slumping…
I am really close to achieving the look I want with the swirl bottle mold. The bottle in the picture above wasn’t the best shape for the mold, but the color was good. It is light enough to allow the swirl pattern to show through. A few more tweaks to the firing schedule, and I…
Well phooey on the instructions! I often wonder if the people that make these things actually ever use them. The last attempt to melt a wine bottle directly in the swirl mold was a disaster. It slumped down into the mold until it was very narrow. Not at all the result I wanted. Since then…
… Read the instructions! If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you know that I have a new bottle mold that I’ve been playing with. It is a spoon rest/dish shape with a swirl pattern in it. The sample bottle I saw looked great. It never dawned on me to ask for directions on…
I got a request from my dad for a custom fused glass dish to celebrate a special birthday. He specifically wanted at plate or dish not too big, with the number “60” and “Happy Birthday” on it. This was a bit of a challenge for me. I had to figure out how to get a…
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