Blood Bath
Three of us drew blood this week in class giving it a halloween atmosphere with all the blood that was flowing. lol Luckily they were all flesh wounds and some of them didn’t even require bandaids…
Jane came in with a modified candle holder pattern that she had found in a book . She made it a little bigger by substituting 2 inch bevels for the 1 inch bevels that the original pattern called for. She also staggered the middle bevel to make the candle holder more sturdy by avoiding having a straight line running all the way around her project. By the end of the class the project was complete and then she was able to get the glass cut for a second smaller candle holder. Here are 2 views of Janes finished project.
Ellen finished cutting all the remaining green for her bayou fireplace screen and then took to grinding it. Ellen moves at a fast pace but her work is flawless. Even after cutting all the green pieces out of a second shade of green she managed to get a good quarter of her window ground. Unfortunately I didn’t get a picture of it before she boxed up the ground pieces to take home to wrap but you can see from this picture that this is going to look wonderful.
Joey got really far on his KEAN’S sign. The background is cut ground and wrapped and the last (blue) border was cut and ground. He took it home with him again to wrap and then solder it. My guess is that next week I’ll only need to touch up the soldering and then it will be finished. Great work Joey!
Cheryl wasn’t sitting back letting Joey do all the work– her LSU sign was completed tonight but due to a small crack in one of the pieces she left it with me giving me the oportunity to take a picture of it during the daylight today. She had changed the pattern slightly on this one from her last LSU window, you can see that the shadow on the S is more defined. It’s more work to do it this way but she didn’t shy away from doing the extra work when she saw another logo with this variation of the S. You did a GREAT job Cheryl - don’t let the broken piece upset you. If we didn’t have a piece or two break on us every once in a while we’d get cocky about the whole process! 
Lastly we have Gerald who worked on a top secret project this week. That’s about all I can tell you until later on when it isn’t such a secret. Meanwhile, Gerlad finished his butterfly and added a wire to support the heavy wings. It’s nice and sturdy and turned out great.
And that was pretty much it for classes this Tuesday. Check here tomorrow for the post about our recent Weekend workshop. The pictures are all cropped and resized with only the text needing to be worked on.
Paul