spf: stained glass and cupcakes
kelly | 19 August 2005 - 5:56am
Something I made myself
I don't consider myself a particularly artsy or crafty person. At all. But each year I like to try out at least one new hobby, and for some reason I find myself drawn to artsy, crafty things. This year it has been knitting (although blogging has pretty much monopolized any time that might have been spent knitting - not that I'm complaining). Two years ago it was stained glass. I took a class in the fall and then proceeded to stress myself the fuck out by making stained glass gifts for everyone for Christmas. That burned me out on the hobby for a good while, but I think I'm ready to return to it again. (Just in time to stress myself the fuck out with Christmas presents. Again.)
 For Doreen |
 For Rob's mom - matches her kitchen theme |
(In case you're wondering, yes that is me and the reason I cropped my head off (whoa, that sounds way too much like chopped my head off) is because this was in my pre-cute haircut with highlights, pre-shaped eyebrows days, and there ain't NO WAY I am letting photos from that era see the light of the internet. HELL no.)
Tools of my hobby
I could spend hours in a stained glass store, running my fingers over the different textures of glass. But what I love best about stained glass is that you can't always tell what it can be until you hold it up to the light. I've often picked up some glass that looks muddy brown in its slot, lifted it to the light half-heartedly, and gasped at the colors that were revealed. And I love how that's a metaphor for a lot of things in life. You'd think I'd have come to expect it by now, but still those hidden colors always catch me off guard.
 Some smaller pieces of glass |
 My glass scraps pile |
Pictured here are most of my tools, including a glass cutter, grinder, copper foil, solder and soldering iron, and lots of different solutions that are applied for various purposes.
Something I want to give away
I made chocolate cupcakes for Simon and Maylee's birthday. (Look, it doesn't take much of a reason for me to make cupcakes, okay?) I feel the need to explain that those are peanut butter chips on top, not nuts. I am of the belief that nuts do not belong anywhere near cupcakes. Ever.
I made 2 dozen. Please take one. I am sitting them here for the taking. Help yourself.
- 529 reads
all comments photoblog
Those cupcakes look yummy! I'll take two...what? One's for Andy. *snicker*
My aunt is into stained glass big time. People all around the world buy it and she has done church windows. Yours look great! It's a beautiful hobby.
That's very cool. I really like stained glass. And cupcakes, too. Thanks, I needed a cupcake this morning. Mmmuphfulmmmmmm.
I'll have a cupcake! Mmmm!
mmmm, thanks. but they appear to be behind some kind of glass barrier, like a cabinet of some sort. i can't seem to reach them.
Awesome craftiness! Isn't smashing glass the best stress reliever? Now let's see some knitting!
My mom did stained glass while I was growing up, and I loved the same thing. I could entertain myself for hours combing through her racks, holding the panes up to the light and combining them.
Yummy cupcakes!
HELLO?! yes, hi. it's me. now gimme one of them cupcakes. better make it two because i'll be inhaling the first one and might not taste it's peanut-buttery sweetness. thank you.
I can't believe I'm the first one to comment on this:
"...nuts do not belong anywhere near cupcakes." *snork*
(Okay, okay...maybe I'm the only one with the filthy mind this morning.)
And I'll have a cupcake! It IS my birthday, after all.
P.S. You SO should have a warning about the daily pic. I thought my heart would explode from the cuteness contained therein.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LADYBUG!!!
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday my dear sweet fabulous LadyBuuuuuug,
Happy birthday to you!!!
You get a dozen cupcakes, girl. And a big blovey hug.
Awwwwww. *sniff* Thanks, Kelly.
i am totally giving back my two cupcakes that i demanded earlier so that ladybug can have them and eat them and enjoy their peanut-buttery goodness. and i'm totally agreeing about the utter cuteness of the daily pic. ::i'm melting...i'm melting!::
Such talent you've been hiding from us. Doreen and RobMom, you lucky dogs. But really, Redneck Valley has a stained glass STORE?
Damn those cupcakes look delicious. Ew nuts. Mmm, chocolate. And LadyBug, the only nuts getting near those cupcakes are Rob's, that is if the kittens took my advice from yesterday.
ieatcrayonz, I swear to Google AND Red Flyer, if you don't stop talking about Rob's nuts, I am going to...to...well, probably pee my pants, to be honest, because it's cracking me up. But that's beside the point!
Love your stained glass and the cupcakes look yummy. Is it lunch yet?
I am very lucky to have been a recipient of such a beautiful piece of work. One of the best gifts I've ever received!!! I keep it on my kitchen window to catch the light.
How talented you are. And what a great idea to try a new hobby every year. My hobby is eating cupcakes. I am very talented at it.
I love stained glass--I've always wanted to try it. My dad used to make it, back in the hippie days. :)
And BTW, if I can post pictures of me being wakened from a slumber, you can post pictures of your pre-cute-haircut-with-highlights days, right? Or at least email one to me, because you've got me all curious!
(you getting my e-mails, kalki?)
Oh no, no, no! I SO need one a them there cupcakes, woman! Oh! OOOOHHHH!!!!! You tease.
Raz, check your email. I'm so sorry! I swear I'm not an email snob!
cat, guess what I'd already planned to bring with me tomorrow, besides a crane? Yeah, cupcakes. :)
Ern, hell no. Heather Armstrong, with her vintage daily photos this week, is a braver woman than I. Doesn't mean I don't blove you, though.
And while posting your just-awakened photos was indeed brave, it was obvious that wasn't you at your best - you know, that you weren't trying because you'd been asleep, for pete's sake! In this case, I have no such argument to stand on.
Yeah, me again. Apparently I can't get my thoughts together enough for just one comment.
Anyway, I just wanted to say a big welcome to mmc and that other rose!!!
Thanks to all of you for your comments. I'd respond to each, but I think I've maybe eaten one too many cupcake...must lie down now.
*perk* cupcakes? yum!
Thanks,now I'm sooooo wanting one of those yumalicious looking cupcakes!
Love your stained glass pieces. I saw some at a local craft fair, I went to with my friend right after moving to Charlotte. The lady gave me her card, I'd love to take a class in it and just so happens that she teaches it. Now I want to even more!
Very sweet daily photo!
Don't tempt me, lady! I've got a whole pie here to myself. Not that I'm complaining.
OMG...I want one!!
oh and you are beautiful AND talented. you suck! I want to be you!