{"id":75,"date":"2007-02-26T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheldodge.net\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2007-02-26T01:00:54","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T09:00:54","slug":"featured-etsy-shop-artfusionglass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lavajewelry\/2007\/02\/26\/featured-etsy-shop-artfusionglass\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Etsy Shop: Artglassfusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s featured Etsy shop is Artglassfusion<\/b>, a shop featuring “cool things made out of fused glass.” Artglassfusion offers accessories (barettes, ponytail holders, and jewelry) and and a wide array of home decor items.<\/p>\n

Here is what the owner of Artglassfusion had to say about herself and about her work…<\/b><\/p>\n

I’m married, no kids, but I do have three very bad kitties that I love more than almost anything. I have a degree in accounting and my day job is being the bookkeeper for a golf club,and even though I like my job (well, I don’t hate it,lol) my passion is glass. I have always been fascinated with glass blowing… actually molten glass (and lava) in general have always fascinated me. There’s something about it that just mesmerizes me. We are lucky enough to live in a city that had a glass blowing school that was open to the public. (Steinert’s Glass School) But the classes weren’t cheap, and something about standing in front of a furnace of molten glass scared the crap out of me… but it was always in the back on my mind that this was something I wanted to be involved with.<\/p>\n

As time went on, the glass school grew and they began offering classes in other areas of glass and inexpensive workshops, so I took a fused glass workshop, (even though at the time I didn’t know anything about fused glass), and I was hooked! I absolutely fell in love with fused glass, and I realized that this was the piece of the puzzle that had been missing… that working with glass is what I was meant to do. So I took as many classes as I could and just absorbed what I could from the amazing artist and instructors at the school. Unfortunately the school closed. The closing however created the push I needed to make up my mind and decide if this was something I was going to give up or get serious about. So we bought a small kiln and some other equipment and just jumped in with both feet.<\/p>\n

Working with glass is a source of such tremendous joy for me, I can’t imagine my life without it… and I will be forever grateful to John and Char Steinert for following their dream, and helping me to discover mine.<\/p>\n

Artglassfusion’s work is available for sale exclusively at http:\/\/artglassfusion.etsy.com<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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