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First before photos of the day. We are having such a good time (well I am)

I have been away on Bristol for 3 days and my poor iPhone couldn’t pick up enough signal to post the bowl photos. I am sorry these are up late but Vince tells me all your work has been collected. Will be back tomorrow to document our first intermediate float course – exciting

Thank you both for your lovely comments about the day and good to hear from you. I am glad you had a great evening too.

Sarah, I agree with you, Megan’s work definitely have the touch of an artist. I have my eye on the smaller piece, with the circles in. I have posted a picture of Mary’s piece, before firing, with the stencil beside it but still no clues as to how she got the stencil off, magic?

Becki, I am so sorry I can’t believe I put your piece up the wrong way. I will take another photo tomorrow. Please look out for next post as I am just about to take a photograph of your bowl and it is a real beauty.

This was another great firing slightly confused by my finger trouble with my IPhone. Photos from top to bottom are by: Megan, Sarah, Ruth, Shirley, Megan, Becki, Ali and Mary.

I lost your comments on my original post so will paste them below (having now learnt the word delete really means just that!).

Sarah just commented on the post “Fired pieces (party 15/1/11)” on glassjewels’s posterous

You are right, I am very lucky and have some really fab friends. We had a great day, & yes the fun carried on all afternoon & evening…I’ve never eaten so much cake!
And aren’t my friends talented as well. I love all of these pieces….great tree Ruth, love the butterflies Shirley, how did you get that paper template off your lovely piece Mary?
there’s no disguising that you are an artist Megan….you had better watch out…I might pinch one of your pieces! Same goes for Ali & Becky…I can’t wait to see them in the flesh (or should I say ‘in the glass’).
Thanks too to Sue & Vince for a great day, yummy soup & CAKE!!!! oh & the bucks fizz works wonders for one’s creativity!
Hope I’ll come back again soon, but sadly not this weekend.

Becki just commented on the post “Fired pieces (party 15/1/11)” on glassjewels’s posterous

Thanks to all of you for a great day, it was lovely spending the day with you all, those I knew and those I got to know. Cake works wonders for getting to knw people! I’m so unarty, but loved creating my glass pieces and am pleased with the results (although it has been photographed upside down with ‘seagulls’ at the bottom!). Thank you to Sue and Vince for all your guidances, I learned loads and totally enjoyed the day.

 

We had a great time today combining glass making, eating birthday cake and drinking Bucks Fizz. Below are the before and after photos of the first pieces made this morning and fired during the day. From top left to right: Ruth, Becky & Shirley, in the middle: Mary & Megan and bottom Ali & Sarah . I am hoping to post more pics of fired pieces on Tuesday evening after the firing, in fact Vince is loading the kiln as I type.

 

The story behind today is that Sarah came on a course with us last year and really enjoyed it and told all her mates about it and so unbeknownst to her they arranged a party for today, her birthday was last Tuesday.  Apparently they told Sarah they would pick her up at 9.30 and she had no idea where she was heading until the car turned into our road. Okay secretly (well not so secret now) I would love it if my friends had organised this for me – although I guess ideally it would need to be in another craft area.  Seriously how lucky is Sarah she has some fab friends and we were lucky enough to join the fun which judging by the whispering has continued into this evening.  We really enjoyed meeting you all.

These are the pieces we fired in the morning and had a look at in the afternoon inside the small kiln They contain metals, plants and even solder flux (see Skipp’s great piece). Really shows the alchemy of fusing

From top L to R: Alice, Emma, Miranda and bottom: Skipp, Alessandro, Lidio and Lucy

 

Miranda said… Hi Sue and Vince, Thanks for a great day. The girls and I really enjoyed ourselves – We look forward to seeing the results, Best wishes, Miranda

I am really glad you and Alice enjoyed your second course with us and it was great to meet your youngest daughter Emma too. Emma (12 years) is our youngest participant yet, see photo number 6 to see one of her great pieces she made

Emaa what did you think of the course in terms of suitability for others your age? as I keep thinking it would be lovely to do  community projects involving young and older participants