I've always loved the look of real stained glass. Not the fake stuff I've made in the past with tissue paper and glue or Gallery Glass paints, but real stained glass. It's really expensive if you buy it from someone already made.
When I used to work at AutoZone, the wife of one of my coworkers made and sold stained glass for a living. She did really gorgeous, amazing work and displayed it at many of the area craft malls. Apparently, it's not that difficult if you have to right supplies and tools. As long as I wore heavy gloves and eye protection while cutting the glass, even an accident prone person such as myself wouldn't get hurt doing it. Anyway, she kept saying she would teach me how to do it (for a small fee), but I never got around to it. She and her husband divorced and she moved away.
I lost my chance at cheap lessons and the use of her stained glass cutters, but it's still an art that I would to try. I've been noticing that it's one of the hobbies that is beginning to make a resurgence lately. The craft stores are beginning to carry more stained glass supplies than they used to. I'll have to look into finding if there are other relatively inexpensive classes offered that I can take. It would be a shame to invest a lot of money into getting the necessary supplies only to find that I didn't like doing it.
When I used to work at AutoZone, the wife of one of my coworkers made and sold stained glass for a living. She did really gorgeous, amazing work and displayed it at many of the area craft malls. Apparently, it's not that difficult if you have to right supplies and tools. As long as I wore heavy gloves and eye protection while cutting the glass, even an accident prone person such as myself wouldn't get hurt doing it. Anyway, she kept saying she would teach me how to do it (for a small fee), but I never got around to it. She and her husband divorced and she moved away.
I lost my chance at cheap lessons and the use of her stained glass cutters, but it's still an art that I would to try. I've been noticing that it's one of the hobbies that is beginning to make a resurgence lately. The craft stores are beginning to carry more stained glass supplies than they used to. I'll have to look into finding if there are other relatively inexpensive classes offered that I can take. It would be a shame to invest a lot of money into getting the necessary supplies only to find that I didn't like doing it.
Name: LaDonna
