Creating With Cabochons hosted by Sally Russick of The Studio Sublime

Hi Y'all,

Yes it is me, I am still around, I just took a break from beading and blogging for a little while.  I have been learning a few new skills to add to my jewelry making, one of which is fusing glass and shaping the fuse glass into cabochons.  So that is what I am going to show you for the Creating With Cabochons challenge, that the wonderfully talented Sally Russick with The Studio Sublime is hosting.  

When I first signed up for this challenge I had it in mind to make a collar using cabs and bead embroidery.  I have not given up on that idea, but it is just not going to happen for this challenge.  What I am going to show you is the process I took to make my cabs.

 Morning is a lady that is very talented in many areas of jewelry making and she has taken me on as an apprentice and fusing glass was my first lesson.  I learned how to cut glass with a glass cutter and how to break it apart once it is scored. I learned that stained glass is not the same as coe90 glass and they should not be mix, but I forgot that rule and mixed them anyway and found out that they do not like to stick to each other.  It is fun cutting up the glass and placing them on other pieces of glass and making little sandwiches of glass.  I lost all track of time when I was playing.

Glass ready to go into the kiln for the fusing process. 

Glass is fused and shapes drawn on the back.  This machine is used to cut off the excess glass to make it easier to sand into the drawn shape.

The excess glass cut away the scraps will be crushed to go into other projects.

Me sanding and shaping the cabs.

Cabs all sanded and shaped and ready to go back into the kiln for fire polishing.

Here is my lot of cabs.  This picture is of the first and second batch of cabs.

Although I did not make a piece of jewelry with any of these cabs, you will be seeing these in the future made into wearable pieces.

This is a piece that I did for a Facebook challenge.  So I decided that it would do a double duty for this challenge too.

Thank you for stopping by to visit, I hope you enjoyed your visit.  Now please go and visit the other blogs in this hop.

Your Host:  Sally Russick
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