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Murano Millefiori Jewelry

Millefiori is an ancient technique where glass canes are fused together then sliced to reveal a multitude of patterns. The canes are then hand cut into tiny slices. I take those pieces imported from Murano Italy and intricately arrange them, kiln-fire multiple times, and cold work the final fired piece by hand and with small glass specific machinery. The finish piece is then set into a bezels for wearing as bracelets, pendants, and earrings.

Necklace and Earings
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Glass Necklace and Earings
Pendant
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Millefiori Pendant
Pendant
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Millefiori Pendant
Glass Pendant
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Glass Pendant Necklace
Polar Bears
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Polar Bear Millefiori Pendants
Kiln Formed Glass
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In kiln formed glass, glass sheets hand cut into pieces, glass frit, and powdered glass are utilized. These glasses are built up in layers. The layers are then fired several times in a kiln to the temperature of F 1300 - 1700 degrees. After firing, the melted and reshaped glass will need finish work with cold working techniques. The piece is then fired again to create a finished product that captures the color and image.

Dolphins
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Key-Chain Dolphins
Lizard
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Garden Lizard
Frog
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Garden Frog
Christmas Tree Ornament
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Christmas Tree Ornament
Cyclone Bowl
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Cyclone Bowl
Cyclone Bowl
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Cyclone Bowl
Popurri Pink Bowl
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Popurri Pink Bowl
Landscapes
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Inspiration for creating landscape scenes comes from witnessing the beauty of Maui and experiencing the wonders of my travels to different countries. The process involves using only glass powders and colored crushed glass particles known as frit. Each landscape requires multiple layers of frit and three firings in a kiln.

Mountains
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Mountain Landscape
Water over Rocks
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Water Over Rocks
Wizard
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Wizard!
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Turtle on Beach
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Sunset
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Palm Tree
Mandalas
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Fused glass mandalas takes several steps and processes. These pieces utilize glass frit and powdered glass in multiple sections. Each piece is fired in a kiln - often more than once. The pieces are then re-assembled into the final mandala image..

Mandala
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Glass Landscape Mandala
Mandala
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Glass Mandala
Mandala
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Glass Flower Mandala
Pattern Bars and Combing
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Combing is a process where hand cut glass strips are assembled and set in a kiln and fired to a high temperature. Once the right temperature is reached the kiln is opened and with safety equipment and a metal rod the hot hot piece is manipulated. The kiln is closed and either the process repeats or the kiln is set for the temperature to be very slowly reduced to room temperature over a period of 6-8 hours. The combed pieced is then cut into strips or left in tact to be incorporated into a final project that takes sanding, cutting, grinding, reassembling and another round in the kiln to produce a finished creation.

Pattern bars are made with strips of cut glass. Assembled and kiln fired. The finished piece is then cut on a wet tile saw into sections that beautifully reveal the inside pattern of the combined fused strips. These strips are then reassembled and fired again to create a flat piece. This finished flat is then fired once again into a functional form or blown into a vase.

Pattern Bar
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Combing Pattern
Pattern Bar
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Combing Pattern
Pattern Bar
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Combing Pattern
Torch Flame Work
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Placing colorful cold glass rods into a hot flame is mesmerizing.

Using a flame approximately 2300- 3000 F degrees on an oxygen/propane torch, cold borosilicate glass rods of varying thickness are melted. Once molten, the glass is shaped using hand movements, gravity, and small hand tools. Borosilicate being a hard durable glass, rather than soft glass (which is often referred to as soda lime glass with a lower melting temperature and often less thick) takes considerably more cost to purchase and time to work the glass into the final object. Once the piece is finished the piece is placed in a kiln at a temperature to mature the color taking several hours or days and is then annealed. Annealing is a process that relieves the glass of stress so it does not break; It is a several hour slow cooling process in which the kiln heat is slowly brought down to room temperature.

Glass Pendant
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Torch-made Glass Pendant
Torchwork Pendant
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Torched Glass Pendant
Torchwork Pendant
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Torched Glass Pendant
Torch Made Straws
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Torched Glass Drinking Straws
Perfume Bottle
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Torch Made Decorative Perfume Bottle
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Torched Glass
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Mini Hearts Necklace
Mixed Media
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Art work and jewelry is created using a multitude of learned and experimental self taught techniques. The materials incorporated might use one or several of the following: metals, precious and non precious stones, beads, buttons, findings, polymer, metal and/or glass clays, colored pencils, oil pastels, inks and paints.

Glass Pyramid
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Coldworked Glass Paperweight
Metal Clay Pendants
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Metal Clay Pendants
Metal Clay Earings
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Metal Clay Earings
Torchwork Pendant
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Beaded Bracelet
Metal Whale Tail
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Metal Whale Tail Necklace
Mandala
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Mandala
Mandala
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Mandala