Happy New Year!

I am looking forward to making lots of new designs as well as some of my favourites too. It will make a nice change from Christmas tree ornaments, much as I do love making them, perhaps 700 in three months was a bit over the top!

I am planning to make some more petrified wood glass dishes. I love the variety of colours that emerge when it is fired on top of a blue glass such as robin egg blue. It is amazing to see bright red and royal blue appear from within the wood tones.

Dish - petrified wood on blue glass

I plan to keep this one for myself.

I am also working on new windchime designs. One based on flowers and another on the stars I made for Christmas.

Stars - transparent glass

One of my Christmas presents was a pasta bowl mould so I am toying with a number of possible designs.

A new lampshade design using copper foiled stained glass is also in my thoughts but that will take a while to construct.

At the same time I will be making glass for my stall in the Art Place, Meadows Shopping Centre, Chelmsford and for my Folksy shop.