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Thank you so much everyone who has come out recently to our sales events and made visits to my website here, supporting our hotshop with such kind patronage. You have made my continued glass endeavors possible for months to come, plus, you are now the new owners of frozen moments of my life while planet bound to this beautiful earth we share. It feels as though each work I've made marks a point in time in my life, each pontil attached..a concentration of my awareness, manifesting my dreams into existence, balancing for a moment while it freezes. It's one of...

Despite the current oppressive humidity of the DC area, I must contemplate our plans for this coming fall. Within my profession there is a typical seasonal shift towards decorative gourds and holiday ornaments, which I do make on occasion, but I am looking forward to creating a wider variety of fungi forms, incorporating sculptures into blown forms and adding borosilicate parts to my soda-lime vessels to create oil lamps, just to tell of a few directions I’m thinking. I’m also proud to announce that we will have a table of our wares setup at the Fredricksburg Troll Market this October,...

What is all this pulled stuff around the base, where did that style come from? A historical moment in pre-industrialization, a style of factory blown glass from south Jersey in the early 1900's, characterized by a “lily pad” design around the base, with a spiral wrap at the top, often blown to form the standard functional glassware of the time, pitchers, cups, vases etc. offhand shaped using the basic glassblowers bench tools. Later giving way to the needs of business and industry, mold blowing is introduced and increased productivity achieved, then on to automated machines blowing bottles and etc. If it wasn’t...

Titled as such because I often have a hard time admitting that my memory needs help, often flatly refusing to make a list out of pure stubbornness.. figuring that if it’s important, it will remind me, like a squeaky wheel, and the issue would be handled. Or so I had thought, now a days I’m making multiple lists to keep track of all that I need to accomplish on my steady path forward. I write today to tell you of this book of my childhood, which I don’t clearly remember, but is surely mine, since it has my childlike name...

The production of bottles has been a traditional glass blown craft born out of necessity, often with an emphasis on the speed of production while providing functional transportation of liquids. The forms have changed a bit with needs of the liquids contained but also with the makers skills and tools. Molds were created to homogenize the form and speed up production for mass consumption. Glass formulas were made to work best in this mold blown process, the molten glass freezing upon hitting the steel interior of the mold and not moving much after. Reheating and reworking the lip after releasing...