2026 - yes its already 2026 and I am officially Retired - 1st post of I hope many

 Its already mid February 2026 and I have not posted in quite some time 
Officially I am retired and ready to get to work on projects such as  3d printing and electroplating , work on some polymer clay, more laser etching, Resin Reative metals etc  and when weather allows getting back up to the studio to lampwork, metalwork and fusing and some other things (a big one is get my studio back to where it was before my daughter moved in so I can move around ) 

Looking back at show set ups

 Just setting up  new  shows for this year 

So far   End of August  with Kawartha Art Festival in Fenlon Falls   and Hand of Man  Oct 24-26  in Peterborough  

Hopefully a couple more to follow 

My set ups to show my glass, sub cups, finished jewelry and laser cut earrings  - Hoping to have even more items this year 

 

Laser Engraved Butterflly wings

 Went on a hunt in my studio for some dichroic glass to make more wings 

some lovely red 

blue

silver teal

soldered and they turned ouT fabulous 

Laser engraved images on dichroic glass - First try

 Used my XTOOL Laser cutter to etch into dichroic glass .

My first  effort -  Painted the surface with black paint so that the laser did not reflect 

I was setting up my butterfly wing pattern and a mandala 

Was amazed with results but first tries were too deep (which totally surprised me ) 

I adjusted the depth and  tried again

once I got the  detail I wanted and depth I cut them  out and ground them down and then fired them 

then I did a copper  foil around edges and soldered them 

no patina

patina

Some new items - Christmas Wreaths

 some new Christmas Wreaths 

Fused Glass Wreaths 

Microscope soldered pendants

Microscope  solder pendants 

flying keys 

Stamped Solder

 Finishing up the pendants and the earrings. Cleaaned and dipped into Permalac EF  sealer then hung to dry  then assembled with copper jump rings and Niobium ear wires

18g copper solder stamped 

Brass solder stamped 

Permalac EF dip to seal

Microscope Slide Pendants

 I created prints that will fit the microscope slides Used copper foil tape to hold them together Flux is applied to the copper tape  then the solder is applied I added jump rings to top and bottom  You can patina or leave plain I added a crystal T fhe bottom