Woodworking and Glassblowing — A Great Combination

Baptismal Font and Basin

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Joy's recent post about: The creation of a Solid Fruitwood and Hardwood Baptismal Font to accompany one of our Cast Glass Baptismal Basins.

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Stephen Hawking 70th Birthday Exhibit — The Science Museum, London

Saturn Glass Scupture

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BJ's blog post about: Our Blown Glass Saturn sculpture in the London Science Museum's exhibit of Stephen Hawking's Archives and Curiosities

Check It out. It's Pretty Cool!

Baptismal Font and Bowl Creation

Baptismal Font with Yellow Sun Splash Bowl

Along with making the glass pieces, sometimes it's nice to be able to offer the supporting pieces as well, like frames for paintings, candles or soap for the little blown glass pieces, or the actual pedestal stands, known as fonts, for the big glass Baptismal basins. They add a lot for the client

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A Brush With Greatness – Stephen Hawking and Me?

Sometimes, surprises can be a very good thing. Many times they're not but this one is very welcome and special, indeed. Late Friday afternoon a message arrived from Donna Stevens, our good friend at the Planetary Society, informing us of their surprise.

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Fixed Admin Menus — The Plugin Condensed

WordPress 3.3 hit release just a few days ago, so I dived into the code of the new Admin system to figure out what had changed.

As with all things open source, if you have a good idea that stands the tests of use and time, eventually it will find its way into core. As a result, my code is shrinking some with each new release of WordPress

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2012 Calendar Featuring Kitten Rescues

Winky in her little bed

When I first went to the house where the neighbor said a litter of kittens was living under the deck, I had already captured one of them out on the road. I knew she was a beautiful little girl, but had only seen a fleeting glimpse of one other kitten - a little black one. Here is the first one I caught:

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