Alicyn Drew Fused glass

My friend Sarah has blog tagged me

www.blinkdcblog.blogspot.com

It means I have to tell 8 things about myself and then pass this on to some of my unsuspecting friends. I think I'm going to tag a few friends so Deb, Kim and Susie, watch out!!!

1. I have no favorite color, it's all about the mood I'm in, I do however have a favorite color combination which is orange, purple and Yellow, so pretty...

2. I'm half Spanish and half Dutch, my father imigrated to this country back in the 5o's, pretty much met my mother soon after getting off of the boat (Mom lived in Manhatten) and they were married that year. The story goes that Mom was sick with a sore throat so her aunt went out to get her ice cream, there she met this handsome Dutch man and brought him home to meet my Mom. Can you imagine doing that these days?  Soonn after they were married and had me 9 years into the marriage. I can not speak Dutch or Spanish even though both of my parents are fluent in their respective languages.

3. Glass is just a hobby and it gives me my sanity, in real life I'm a techy geek. I'm a Sr Principal Programming Analyst HA!! I don't even know any programming languages (just a little SQL) but I can write a mean report and I do know my product called Cognos very well.

4. In my past career I was a dog groomer, still love the little woofles and usually groom my little guy Boo. I'm too cheap to pay and most people never do him exactly the way I want him done.

5. Back in the 80's I wore spiked hair in a sort of mullet. I had a spandex unitard too and wore that out dancing with a double wrapped grommet belt and paint splashed wrap around glasses, I was hot!!  :-)

6. My first artistic love was photography, I still do love it, but in High School all I wanted to be was a photographer. Spent many hours in the dark room developing in black and white, it was great fun.

7. I work as a hotlihne volunteer for the Wildlife Rescue league, I do love helping animals. I truly believe that we owe something back to them for taking most of their habitat.  

8. My life started off kind of rough, and it's gotten better and better. With that I've learned that it's important to be responsible for your own happiness. Circumstance can make things better or worse, we need to make decisions to surround ourselves in the kind of life that we desire, but all important is to roll with what you get. You really never know where anything will take you.

Off to blog tag a few friends that I'm listing below

 Susie http://klineartstud io.com/blog/ 

Deb www.dyzart.blogspot .com

Kim http://www.wusa9.com/news/columnist/blogs/kimmartucci.aspx

Posted by AlicynDrew at 06:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This is the platter I made for Rachel's birthday (my co-worker), it's a 12" round. There is a black base (hard to see with the dark background. The design is done with glass bits and the edge design is slices of a pattern bar. She really liked her present, she bakes a lot so can use this as a serving dish.

I'm excited because I finally have a firing schedule for pieces like this that allows two large pieces of glass to fuse with no bumps or bubbles within the glass. This is very exciting to me, it's been a challenge to get the glass this smooth, it took a 12 hour kiln cycle just to get the pieces to fuse solid, then another long cycle to slump into the shape of a platter. The results are worth the time to me. 

Posted by AlicynDrew at 08:46 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Well I've been on the new job just over a week now. It's been great!!! Theyr'e not over working us and they're so appreciative of all we do. I did injure my co-worker Rachel. We were rearranging the office and I took off half her toenail while moving a desk. She still shares and office with me and is still my friend. I've felt awful about it. Today was her birthday and I made her a cake. I'm also in the middle of making her a cake platter. I'm really excited about the platter because it is a 12" and there are no bubble bumps in the glass. I finally have a good firing schedule to fire larger sheets of glass without getting bubble bumps. Now I love bubbles, but not in a plate where it's really just an ugly bump.

The platter is in the kiln now for the slumping. It's a black base, with a cream circle (1/4" border of black) then on the cream is a fun design in primary colors. I think she'll like it. 

Posted by AlicynDrew at 09:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Arrrrrgh I decided to upgrade the old blog and get more features and I think I hosed my old blog.

 So here I am with a new pretty blog, I hope I can make sense of this thing

Ali

Posted by AlicynDrew at 03:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Here's a picture of me with The Boo, he's my scruffy little buddy. Looks just like Toto from the Wizard of Oz and he's insolent like him too.

 Don't let that cute innocent face fool you, he's trouble I tell ya!!

Ali

Posted by AlicynDrew at 10:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)