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Make Faux Beach Glass
Use your fused glass scraps up with this easy technique for making faux beach glass.

Annealing Metal, Beads, and Glass Jewelry
Learn about this important jewelry making technique that is essential for ensuring the inegrity of your lampwork beads, fused glass, wire, or metal jewelry.

Scrappy Key Fob
Scraps of wire and old bezels, along with a fused glass pendant, can be used to create your own unqiue key fob.

Victorian Style Fused Necklace
Fused glass is combined with crystal beads to create an elegant necklace.

Create a Glass Studio
Take a tour of the glass studio I created in my own garage. You might be able to change your garage into your own little corner of glass paradise.

Get Started: Fused Glass
Advice and suggestions for how you can get started making fused glass jewelry.

To Buy a Kiln or Not to Buy a Kiln
I get a lot of email concerning kilns. This is a big decision to make for most jewelry makers. Before you buy a kiln, consider some important questions you need to ask yourself.

Make Faux Beach Glass
If you like the look of beach glass but don't live near the beach, then maybe you can try making your own.

Exploring Fused Glass
This provides an over view of fused glass and explains ways to incorporate glass into jewelry making.

Cutting Up in Class - Cutting Fused Glass
Read about my first day in my fused glass class and how I learned the correct way to cut glass.

Finger Painting - Glass and Colors
Learn some more of what I learned in my second fused glass class.

Cutting & Pasting - Fused Glass
The 3rd in a series on what I learn in my fused glassclass. This lesson is on volume control.

Kiln Query
Tim McCreight explains why he likes Rio Grande's PMC kiln. Not only is it reasonably priced, but it can be used for all kind of jewlery making, not just PMC.

How to Drill Holes in Glass
You can make those much needed holes in your glass jewelry by using a drill press and diamond bits.

How to Use a Glass Saw for Fused Glass Jewelry
You can make all kinds of wonderful shapes and designs with glass that you can then turn into pendants and earrings for your jewelry making needs.

Wire & Glass Pendant
Show off your wire designs by fusing them in glass to make a unique pendant.

Make an Opal Glass Cab
Beautiful Dichrohic glass is combined with clear glass to make cabochons that almost look like opals.

Beaded Cab Barrette
Bead around fused glass cabs and then attach your beaded master piece to a barrette back.

Fused Blank Pendants
Beautiful, bright Dichroic glass makes a real difference in these simple fused glass post earrings.

Stamping on Glass
Embossing techniques and a stamp create a cool design on your glass jewelry.

Dichroic Fused Earrings
Beautiful, bright Dichroic glass makes a real difference in these simple fused glass post earrings.

Dichroic Fused Pendant
Almost as simple as making a sandwich, these fused glass pendants use dichroic glass to give them a real punch.

Funky Frit - Making Glass Frit
Learn about how to make and what to do with frit. This was my 4th fused glass class.