Blue Monday revisisted

New for Monday in my Etsy shop is this geometric panel design in 2 shades of aqua blue. I love this design and I never get tired of creating it. It came to me one night a few years ago while I was doing some drawing and I knew right away that it was something special. Within a few days I created the very first one, shown below in various shades of purple. The purple piece was purchased off ebay by a couple from France that actually built their front door around it. In 2006, I was contacted by a designer from Leesburg, Virginia that saw this piece on ebay and absolutely loved it. She was involved with the restoration of the Rust Manor Home, a historic mansion in Leesburg and was looking for a stained glass piece for the room that she was in charge of decorating. She sent me the color scheme of the room's planned decor along with the dimensions I was to build the panel to and I got busy choosing matching colors for her project. By July of 2006, the piece was complete and shipped. I recently contacted the Rust Manor Home to inquire if my piece was still installed and it is. It was really such an honor to have my design included in such an important project since I had only been working in stained glass for about a year and a half at that time and this was one of the first designs that I came up with on my own.

















First ever design in purples

Rust Manor Home door

blue monday

Sunday was a very lazy and hazy day, I didn't do much besides hang around, take a nap, eat and lay around again. I truly felt like a cat. I had really wanted to get out and explore the neighborhood and the woods, but the rains kept coming and I really didn't want to chance taking the camera out in the deluge. Or myself for that matter. Rubber boots, I need rubber boots. Well, its Monday--I've got to get started on something. I pulled out one of my favorite geometric panel projects to recreate, this time using two shades of aqua blue. I love this design, its fun yet elegant with curves and lines, a project that I never get tired of doing.


Thankfully, the motivation team showed up! Chocolate, big coffee (the first of many) and some tunes to crank out. Gotta get the boogie on in the shop and get the blood going. Today's playlist included some Zeppelin, some old Seger and Metallica. By the way, I sent the husband out this morning to get some items at the store with a request for a chocolate bar thinking he would bring home a regular sized 69 cent Hershey. He brought home this mega size 3.5 ounce hunk of sugar and cocoa, that's nearly a quarter of a pound! The man is truly brilliant and doesn't even realize it.


This is as far as I'd gotten by this afternoon. The center is a clear glass bevel that I shape with the glass grinder so its no longer square but follows the curves of the pieces next to it. The remainder of the pieces have been hand cut and waiting for me to grind them down to fit-step one will be done... I think I'll just have to send that boy out for another candy bar.