When I tell people that I am teaching myself how to make things from glass more often than not the first thing they say is “Oh I would love to do that, is it hard?”

The answer to this question is no. It’s not technically hard. We bought some “how to” books to teach us how to actually cut the glass and then put it together, in a way that resembled some sort of art.

What it is is very expensive. The start up costs were amazing (don’t ask) The material is outrageous! Why a single income family decided to chose stained glass as a hobby, I don’t know.

So the last time we went to the glass shop we bought 2 small sheets of yellow glass to make my sunflower project. Once I finished the larger of the two sunflower’s, we then found that the second sheet of yellow glass was completey different to the first. And I didn’t like that idea. Tim kept telling me it would be ok. Just make the second flower out of the different glass he said. But I can’t do that. Because sunflower’s are all the same. They don’t differ in their intensity of yellow.

So my glass sat there for weeks, because I’d technically run out of glass to keep going. And we can’t go to the glass shop again because we’re saving for other more important things.

This is what I have done, to get some sort of satisfaction out of this hobby. I have made the big flower, which was already completed…into a suncatcher. It was annoying me to not be able to keep going and also to not have something to show for the work I had already done.

That’s it just there. It is not the best project I have done. As in I like the mirror concept more than anything. But it IS the best work I have done in terms of technique. The line’s are clean and smooth like the professional one’s I compare my work to all the time.

Now to find another project, or hobby.

Why I didn’t just take up tobacco spitting as a sport or something I don’t know.