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| pumpkin selected |
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| pretty pie made |
But, I put my hatred of pumpkin aside and went with sis-in-law Kim and sis-in-law Mama Jean and we went to Marble City Glassworks one evening and blew pumpkins of our very own!
It was kind of intimidating at first. I had the glassworks instructor, Matt, tell me all the rules before I went traipsing around the studio. There was only one rule - don't touch anything hot.
Good rule.
I'm sure there's a more technical way to explain this, but here's what you do:
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| you get a blob of molten glass out of this thingie on the top of your stick thing |
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| you twirl it around so your melty glass doesn't fall on the floor |
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| you mash it around in some color (i picked orange because i'm an original) |
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| you melt all the colored glass in this thing |
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| here's where things went slightly askew - matt said ok BLOW! so i blew with all my might! and broke it. lesson learned everyone - blow glass gently... |
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| so much like my pottery experience, i started all over again. more blobs on sticks! |
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| more success with gentle blowing... i finally make it to shaping my pumpkin. |
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| and matt puts the stem on the top! |
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| kim's turn! twirling melty glass... |
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| dipping up molten blob... |
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| rolling and shaping her pretty pumpkin.... |
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| and then jean goes.... |
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| twirling.... |
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| more blobs.... |
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| gentle blowing... |
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| and success! the three of us had a great time. matt photobombs while i hold the studio cat, dinah. |
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| and here they are cooled down and finished! aren't they fun?!! |
In other news, people have been asking how my face is doing after the stabs. It's good! So much so that I think I'll get the other remaining sets of face stabs. See? Marketing works! But, in the interest of full disclosure, here's what I put on the patient referral sheet the other day:
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| tee hee! |
All the news for today. Over and out!
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