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Mrkich
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🍁 Nature and glass lover. Came out of one civil war, hoping not to witness another. Progressive. On occasion stupidly optimistic.
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Day 24
Fused / Kilncast glass plate
Round glass plate, 10 3/4" in diameter. Center of the plate is medium blue. Around the center are concentric circles of pale blue, mossy green and medium blue. All of it is overlaid with flecks and lines of transpqrent blue and green. Edge of the plate is white, as that is the base, with colors breaking the edge up where they tried to spill over.
December 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Day 23
Fused glass pendant
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Fused glass pendant, irregularly shaped with silver plated bail and olive green cord. Photographed on wood surface. Pendant is in shape of very rounded capital letter D. Pendant is covered in dots of various colors and sizes outlined in sparkly blue. Dots are orange red on top, yellow and the pink through the middle and bright green on the bottom. Pendant is about 1 3/4" wide and about 1 1/2" long.
December 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Day 19
Fused glass pendant
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Fused glass pendant shaped like a half x circle with a silver plated bail and dark blue cord on some beach pebbles. Flat part of half circle is bottom of the pendant. Pendant is 2 1/8" or 5.3cm wide and 1 1/4" or 3.3cm tall. Pendant has mostly diffuse diagonal and parallel stripes and lines in shades of green and blue.
December 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Day 16
Ice skate fused glass ornament
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Fused glass ornament in shape of a hockey ice skate. Ornament is red opalescent glass with seven snowflakes made out of sterling silver foil. Snowflakes have black edges due to chemical reaction between silver and red glass. They are capped with a layer of clear glass and sparkly iridescent flakes. Ornament is 3" or 7.8cm wide and 3 7/8"or 9.7cm long.
December 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Day 14
Fused glass pendant
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Fused glass pendant, roundish, about 4cm or 1 5/8" long and 3.8cm or 1 1/2" wide with silver plated bail and orange cord photographed on beach pebbles. Pendant has dots in various sizes and colors outlined in dark sparkly blue. Dots are yellow on top of the pendant, pink in the middle and orange red on the bottom. Surface is smooth.
December 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Day 12
Fused glass pendant
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Fused glass pendant with silver plated bail and dark blue cord on beach pebbles. Pendant has a triangular shape, but with one flat and two rounded sides one of which is slightly serrated. Flat side is the top of the pendant. Serrated rounded is left side and a third of a pendant on that side is dark blue. The color then transitions into medium throughout the middle and then pale blue and white on the right side. Pendant is about 4cm or 1 5/8" wide and 5cm or 2" long.
December 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Day 11
Fused glass pendant
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Round, fused glass pendant, about 1 1/2" or 3.8cm in diameter with silver plated bail and olive green cord. In the middle of the pendant there are circles of various sizes outlined in sparkly green. Circles on top are pale blue while circles on bottom are white. where they meet, there are two circles which are half pale blue and half white. Circles are surrounded by irregular non-transparent white area and edges of the pendant are medium non-transparent foresty green.
December 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Day 10
Fused glass ornament
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Appropriate for this snowy day in Canada
Fused glass ornament in shape of a light grey cloud which has three silver snowflakes. Below the cloud are three small round grey pieces of light grey glass with silver snowflake each. They are attached to the cloud with wires and it looks like snowflakes are falling out of clouds full of snowflakes. At least it should....🤣 Total width of the ornament is almost 4" or 10 cm and total height is 9cm or 3 1/2".
December 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Day 7
Fused glass ornament
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Round, 7cm or 2 3/4" in diameter, fused glass ornament made of stripey (pre-made) white and light blue glass. Most of the ornament are thin curved white and blue stripes while bottom has uninterrupted blue section. On top of the stripey glass are three snowflakes made of silver foil arranged in a triangular pattern. Due to chemical reaction with glass, snowflakes are more golden in color and have turned a bit stripey themselves. They have dark golden stripes where they cross stripes of glass that have reacted more strongly with silver.
December 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Day 6
Fused glass pendant
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Round fused glass pendant with silver plated bail and orange cord, about 4.1cm or 1 5/8"in diameter, nestled among green leaves of a plant. Base of the pendant is a round piece of white opalescent (non-transparent) glass. the base is covered by small glass spheres of various sizes (up to 1/4") which have been partially fused to the base (and should remind you of raindrops on leaves and flowers after the rain). Spheres in the center are clear, but there are transparent yellow spheres close to the bail, opalescent sunflower yellow ones along bottom left edge, and transparent pink along bottom right edge of the pendant. Border between colorful and clear spheres is made of spheres which have one half clear and the other is in yellow or pink. These spheres are arranged so that there is a clear demarcation line between area in color and area in clear glass so that areas in color have a shape of petals. I am sorry that this is such a clunky explanation.
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Day 4
Fused glass pendant
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Round fused glass pendant photographed in the sunny garden in front of giant blue hyssop / agastache flower and photobombed by a bumblebee (photograph glass in the sunshine was the advice on photographing glass... 😂) Pendant is round and has dots in different sizes and colors - they are dark blue on top, then light blue, then yellow, then lighter lime green and mossy green on the bottom. Dots are outlined in sparkly dark blue. Pendant is about 1 1/2" in diameter.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Day 2
Fused glas pendant
Oval shaped fused glass pendant made of opalescent or non-transparent glass on beach pebbles. Pendant has silver plated bail and olive green cord. On top part of the pendant is a flower made of pink petals and darker yellow center outlined in a dark, brownish line (due to chemical reaction between compounds in yellow and pink glass). Flower is on the white background, and around that is irregular lime green area with an orange streak on one side. Lime green area is again outlined with a dark line due to chemical reaction. Outside of that area is turquiose blue, and the edges and base of the pendant is medium forest green color. Pendant is 3.7cm (1 1/2") long and 2.9cm (1 1/8")wide.
December 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Day 1
Fused glass pendant
Oval shaped fused glass pendant on beach pebbles with silver plate bail and dark blue cord. Pendant is mostly in tones of blue with blurry diagonal streaks of darker and paler blue. Top of the pendant has a diffuse area of very pale green and bottom has a bit of very pale blue. Pendant is 4.1cm (1 5/8") long by 3cm (1 3/16") wide.
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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February 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Day 30: Green
Closeup of a glass and mostly green plate with a leaf motif
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Close-up of a glass plate showing leaf made up of glass beads mostly in shades of green with few beads being blue and yellow. Beads are outlining shape of the leaf and veins, and they are fused between two clear sheets of glass. Here you can see entire plate which is about 6 by 6 inches in size and has steel blue half inch border.
January 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Multicolored glass beads
Seven multicolored glass beads (less than half an inch or cm in size). One bead is in in center and the other six are around it. Beads are yellow, clear and blue; orange, clear and green; orange, clear and blue; pink, clear and yellow: green, clear and blue. Photographed on white background.
January 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Glass beads in shades of yellow
Glass beads in various shades of yellow, from pale and transparent to dark yellow and opaque, all mixed up.
January 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Day 24
Lamp - fused glass panels set in a wood base (more info in alt text)
This has been a wonderful month
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Lamp has three panels of rectangular, slightly curved glass set in a square light wood base about 2 inches thick. Panels are about 7 by 12 inches and set in a triangular pattern. This photo shows the front panel. All three panels are identical. They are made of white glass with a pattern three wavy lines - two wavy lines are parallel and the third wavy lines crosses the other two. The lines are made of blue dots that grow in size from one end of the line to the other. Each wavy line is a different shade of blue. I consider this lamp a prototype since my woodworking/routering skills need work so the panels wobble a bit in their channels. This photo shows where glass panels come together. The wavy lines meet at the edges of the panels
December 24, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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December 23, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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Day 23
Fused glass cufflinks
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Pair of irregularly shaped glass cufflinks. Dark blue transparent glass (looks almost black) with a stripe of dichroic glass in the middle of each cufflink. Dichroic glass is often black glass with metallic coating which gives you a range of intense colors that look metallic so one cufflink has orange, blue yellow metallic, and the other one has orange, magenta and yellow metallic colors. Cufflink hardware is golden colored metal. They are photographed on white marble surface with a sprig of white cedar in the background.
December 23, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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Day 22
Glass tile gone wrong, but ended up interesting
Huge air bubble developed during fusing and has not cracked in the years since then
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Glass tile about 6 by 6 inches. Base is white glass which was colored navy blue with glass powder so the color is uneven. In the middle there is a silver tear shape with three blue dots on the left. Most of the tear shape is transparent grey and that is where the clear top layer of glass did not fuse to the bottom layer but formed a bubble because the air trapped between layers expanded during heating. Now this is a huge bubble which i have not seen before or after and it probably has to do with the way I made silver tear shape. I vaguely remember mixing glass powder which holds lot of air with some kind of compound and that is what probably caused the air bubble. There are two squiggly lines on the right side of the plate which I really like (and will have to replicate in another piece in the future) but those are reflections of a window frame. Same glass tile in profile so that you can see how big the bubble is. It is a bit less than an inch tall.
December 22, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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Day 21
Glass plate - cakes are served on it!
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Glass plate, 6 by 12 inches. Base is white glass and on top are stripes in shades of blue and green one side of each stripe is rounded (they look a bit like a capital letter D) and they overlap.
December 21, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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Day 20
Experiment - this may become a plate but I am not sure yet.
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Square piece of white glass about 6 by 12 inches in size. There are six irregular rounded shapes which are clear glass on top of white with edges that are small streaks of glass in blue and green shades.
December 20, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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Day 18
Wonky stud earrings 🤣
Fused glass
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Pair of stud earrings which are in wonky, i.e. not round but in the shape of very rounded triangles. They are made of non transparent or opalescent glass. One tip of the triangle is lime green glass, and the rest is striped glass going from grey to white and light blue stripes to white. So second tip is greyish, the third tip is white and the middle is striped white and light blue glass. Photographed on rough grey surface with greenery in the background. Same as previous photo. This photo shows stainless steel post on the back of the earring.
December 18, 2024 at 11:22 PM