Vase making.....sort of!!!

Well....I've become a Groupon junkie....they have such great deals if you really shop them and then if they are offering an additional % off, it's really a good deal.
I'd seen a Groupon for a Super Swirl Glass making class... so I asked Cheryl if she wanted to go. She's very crafty, I'm very NOT...but I was curious....so off we went.

I picked her up and in 15min we were there...we soon discovered the process....you start with a flat piece of swirled color glass, then you add other glass as color if you wish. That flat piece has to get fired to fuse all the glass together....then, the teacher "slumps" (shapes) the glass over a mold while it's hot and pliable..and you end up with a vase....

The green swirl is part of the piece of glass...all the other colors you see...red, yellow, black, blue are all glass in different forms that I added. The red pieces are called straws...the yellow and black are chips/dust....and the blue are just broken off pieces from s large piece...it was really pretty cool.

Cheryl is working very hard on hers....

Cool glass butterfly........

And.....my finished product....I had nothing to do with the shape, but the colors turned out pretty cool. Not that I'll ever put flowers in it, but it's a nice piece to sit around...and....I made it...sorta!!

It was fun, curiosity is satisfied, but at $40 a pop, not sure I need to do it again....but was fun one time.