Author Archives: Cosy Creative Crafts

My husband and I like to play Yahtzee. This is a game using 5 dice. We found that this was quite noisy on our table so we use a beading mat to roll them on quietly. However, when we go away on holiday or play outside in the garden the mat is likely to blowContinue reading “Fused weights”

My daughter (not the one with the baby) made some curtains for our living room, and very nice they were too. I offered to make her something from glass for her house. She pointed me to another artist’s work so I got the inspiration from that. The artist obviously has a large kiln so IContinue reading “Fused Decorations”

Well today I had my first proper craft sale for my glassware. I live local to the Fairport Convention Music Festival so our local church had an event to entertain the fans and the local villagers. As well as Zumba and the local Hospital Radio there was an exhibition of artwork from the Art GroupContinue reading “Craft stall”

Some time ago my daughter and son-in-law came to stay with my grandson who is just 2 years old. He is a gorgeous redheaded little fellow and has an infectious laugh and a naughty grin (who says grandma’s are biased?). As in yesterday’s Blog when friends came round so it was when my daughter cameContinue reading “Fusing Alphabet”

As long as the piece you want is small you can fuse all sorts of things. Earlier in the year we had visitors who brought a bottle of wine with them. Nothing unusual about that. But the wine was wrapped in fine gold coloured wire. My visitor suggested that I try fusing that!. Well, withContinue reading “More fusing”

There are many diffrent ways of creating artwork out of glass. One way is to melt it at a high temperature – around 700C. One can do this in a kiln, which is a bulky piece of equipment, the other is to use a microwave kiln. This is a neat way to fuse small pieces suitableContinue reading “Fusing glass”

OK, it’s been a long time between my first and second posts but I’ve been organising myself. Now I am ready to go. To catch you up…we have been converting part of our large shed to a workshop for me and  now it’s live and working fantastically. I can sit and make glass objects withContinue reading “My Second Post”

Hi I have finally got my blog sorted – the biggest problem was what to call myself. My daughter and husband helped me – and we finally made it. So, Cosy Creative Crafts was bornyesterday and a long life to all who sail in her. Meanwhile to business. I’ll be posting photos of my stained glassContinue reading “My first post”