I'm featured on the Hudson Valley Etsy Team Blog! It features my sushi dish!
Here's the article! http://hvetsyians.blogspot.com/2011/03/have-you-seen-this.html

Great writing by my fellow team member and friend! Check out her store on Etsy
Thank you NellsBelles!

A new treasury Getglassy is featured in!

DappleEtch2

DappleEtch2,
originally uploaded by getglassy.

Dapple and Max Etch Cream

This is a pretty cool product. You paint it on the glass before firing.
http://www.fusingfarm.com/surface-design/wrinkle-creams.php
I bought the Dapple and Max Etch and tried it on some sample glass -

I fired it on transparent blue with a opal white under. I put a cab in the picture that doesn't have the cream for comparison.

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DappleEtch3,
originally uploaded by getglassy.

The green is a opal green with Max Etch on it.
The pink has Dapple cream.
The dark blue is transparent blue with the Max Etch and I etched with a Dremel cattails on it as a test.

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DappleEtch1,
originally uploaded by getglassy.

This is 2 layers of transparent blue with Dapple cream on the 2 corners and Max Etch in the center.

The glass has texture to it with the cream fired on top. The Dapple is pretty rough to the point you think you can scrape it off but it doesn't.

My next experiment with it is to see what it does fired with a clear glass top.

Ice Cubes

In honor of today's snow storm (ugh) I'm introducing my new Ice Cube series.
Clear dichroic on white. The dichroic change from blues, yellow, green and pinks with silver stripes for texture.

Testing firing thin fire in glass

test1,
originally uploaded by getglassy.

I put thin fire between color glass and capped with clear. I put chads under the clear to vent.
As you can see in the yellow one the chads left their mark.

In the top 3 I cut shapes, triangles, square and an arrow. They didn't hold their shape.
In the bottom 2 I used glassline paint on the thin fire. It didn't hold the shape that well either but where the paint was it didn't crinkle up too much. They were all fused at full fuse.
In the blue one the thin fire popped through the clear cap.