Yes, its been a while since I posted. I’ve been busy making things, but always find something else to do besides writing about my projects. And, since the person I started this blog for, my mother, is no longer able to read the blog, I have less incentive to post things.

For those that follow my blog, I apologize. Hopefully, I will get better at posting. But, I’m not making any promises.

This morning as I walked past my dining room, I felt a twinge of guilt for not posting about the fall glass art that I made over a year ago. If you recall, last winter I posted about some snow themed pieces I made for my dining room table. And, on May Day, I posted about some spring flower pieces. So, here is the update about the fall decor’ that I have made.

Leaf Bowl:

I started out by cutting and contour fusing several shapes of leaves in a variety of colors. I also made a few acorns. Please disregard the sweater and jewelry sets. At the time, I had space on the kiln shelf and so I added a few other items to this run of the kiln.

The leaves were then positioned to form a plate and tack fused together. When I placed the project in my slumping mold, I realized that the size was going to be smaller than I wanted.

So, I contour fused a few more leaves and tack fused them together.

And then slumped into the mold.

Leaf Plates and Wood Turned Apples:

For additional decorations on the table, I pulled out one of the fall dessert plates I made a few years ago. Unfortunately, at the time, I did not take any pictures of how I made the set of four plates. In summary, leaves were cut out of different colors of glass or frit stenciled onto the base. Clear coarse frit and fine frit in a mix of greens was placed around the leaves and full fused. The plates were then trimmed to a square shape and capped with 2 mm clear glass (to make them food safe) and slumped into a dish shape.

I also added a leaf plate made with irridized glass and some wood turned apples that I purchased from a local artist at a craft fair I participated in last winter.

The combination of art pieces make for a lovely table display.