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. . .okay, I'm a packrat, I admit it. Every time I go to Kentucky to visit my parents, I trek out to my dad's shop and dig through Pop and Bubby's junk buckets. Mind you, this is a big shop, these are big boys who play with big toys, and the five-gallon junk buckets they set aside are merely a, well pardon the pun, but they are merely a drop in the bucket. That's where I come in! To lure me away from the big pieces of junk I'd like to latch onto, the boys let me dig through their junk buckets. Dig, I do, too! You just never know what you might want to use with molten glass! Up to now, I've only made one glass goodie on a rusty bolt, but today I decided to do a little more creative mixing of media. That's what is in the kiln right now, but I thought fellow packrats might enjoy a virtual dig through the junk buckets I have :)
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A tooth from a mowing machine and a rusty metal rod patiently wait and warm on top of the kiln.
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One bucket of rusty goodies.
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Another bucket of rusty goodies.
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That rusty bolt-frame-w... sticking out of the kiln has a flowing piece of glass melted on it.
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Okay, this rusty shovel won't fit in my kiln, so I won't be melting any glass directly onto it, but I do think it's going to make an awesome stand for something!
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Well, actually, gonna melt some glass on a big bolt to insert into the middle of this fan. I've made a few pieces of glass over the past months that were intended for this fan, but they just weren't big enough.
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Aha! Found the pic of the one face I've tried on a bolt so far.
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I didn't try to melt her onto the rusted metal. I just tried to make her with a hook to hold onto the top of the piece, and I tried to make her huge and flowing. Huge isn't always an option if you don't do it just right! Back to the torch to try again!
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I am consoling myself with the fact that what I was trying to make was on the mandrel and would've been 5 inches tall!
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Thanks for stopping by to visit with AngelinaBeadalina! I'm really just plain ol' Angie or Ang, but the catchy name does suit me in the sense that I'm a motormouth who loves to play with words almost as much as I love to play with glass! You can find me here at BeadArtists.org, in my Etsy shop, or in my daily blog. You can get links to those places at www.angelinabeadalina.com (click on it above). Please pardon the use of my "official" website as a traffic control signal at the moment-- at least, that's what it makes me think of when I look at it. . . lots of directions to other places where there are updates on a daily basis. Tech-stuff would not be one of those things that I love or that comes naturally to me ;) Well, enough rambling for now, come on in, look around. . . have fun exploring my glass experiments and ideas. Peace, Ang
Angie Garren
Southern Illinois, the Little Egypt
of the MidWest
IL 62848 US
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5223637
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Angie....I love the rusty tools and glass.
» Posted by
BelindaTodd
on 1/4/2008 11:53:04 PM.
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