When Bertha got movin’ her hips were humming in the wind…
That’s a strange title for a blog entry, huh? Well, if you were here Tuesday night when “The Bertha Butt Boogie†came on and the volume was cranked up you’d understand. I think we were all singing and even dancing a bit while we were working on our projects
Well, our only completed piece this week was done by Julie. She’s got one Kaleidoscope finished and should have 2 others done for next week. Here’s a look at one of 3 Kaleidoscopes:
Gerald has his second panel all soldered and only needs to wash and color this window next week. There’s only one left to go after this one and it’s a bit more complex, but nothing like the first one he made. Look for the finished picture in our next Blog entry along with the picture of his first window in this series which I seem to have forgotten to have posted! Sorry about that, Gerald. 
Janice was in this week but Grace was stuck at home finishing a paper for school. Nonetheless, Janice managed to get a lot accomplished and has the first side of her window about finished. Here’s a closeup of the section you saw last week along with one of the birds. Next week we’ll see a lot of progress on the rear side of this window.
Joey ground, wrapped, tacked and soldered the front side of the last cabinet door this week. We put the brass channel on it before he left so we’ll have it install next week when Russ routes out the cabinet door it fits into. I forgot to get a picture of it before Joey left so I modified the one I took last week to show you what this last panel will look like. It’s a little longer than the others so the pattern has been modified slightly to accommodate the extra length. Can you see the difference?
Mark cut out a lot of the flower in his window this week. He’s claims to be intimidated by the pieces in it but when I looked at what he’d accomplished on his own 2 hours later I’d have to say that the glass should be afraid of him! He’s having no problems getting through this project and it won’t be long before this one is completed. I’m thinking that he’ll be grinding this next week.
Mary Lynn started cutting glass for her spiritual window. There are so many colors in it that it’s easy to get confused if you try to pick everything you want out at once so we settled on 4 colors for Mary and Joseph. Now that she has them cut out she can get a feel for what the window is looking like before she picks her next set of colors. It’s looking great already!
Christine has cut all the mirror for her last 5 mirrors.  I think she’s more than ready for a change of pace here so after she gets these soldered she’ll be working on completing a fish window that her sister had started. Look here for the finished picture of these mirrors next week.
And lastly we have Cheryl’s Rooster window. There will be a slight difference in this one from the one that Gerald made a while back along with an addition– this one will have a stained glass name under it when it’s finished. The only thing left to cut on this are the eye’s (I colored them in black in the picture so the poor thing wouldn’t look like it was blind) and the beak. Cheryl is moving quickly on this one. Look for a name under it next week.
Uh, for your information, Bertha had three sisters: Betty Butt, Bella Butt and Bathsheba Butt. (And we’ll leave at at that for this week!)