candy dish, custom orders
Custom orders aren't so fun and I don't prefer them (they take more time and effort) but sometimes they cause me to push myself...and I make something that I really like, and will want to make again! The three below are that way. A woman from Memphis (Shirley) found my website this year and contacted me to make two bowls for her...one bowl for a gift, and one bowl for herself that she will use as a candy dish. For the candy dish, I wired fused glass into holes I had precut to match each piece of glass... I made the glass pieces at a class years ago. Shirley wanted pink...I don't have a good pink glaze and it contrasted with the glass pieces... so I added pink beads with the copper wire I used to wire the glass into the holes. This was fun to take pictures of the light coming through the holes. Here is a picture from Shirley of the bowl in use. Here is the other dish I made for Shirley: the outside is unglazed and heavily carved with cont