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Hi. I'm Amanda...a happy wife and mom to three awesome guys. We've lived here in Fort Collins for more than 20 years and are proud to call it home. Before moving to CO, I worked at a city attorney's office, making use of my law and Master's degrees from Duke. After settling in Fort Collins, I homeschooled my three (now teenage and older) sons and was delighted to experience music classes, soccer, karate, swim team, archery, Science Olympiad, First Lego League, parkour, and climbing (not all at the same time!). From 2005-10, I was also a contributing editor for a national scrapbooking magazine, authoring a book and a couple of monthly columns. From 2009-10, I founded and ran the Good Grief Blog. I enjoy learning new things, spending time with my family, volunteering with The Matthews House, traveling and indoor rock climbing.

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Tuesday
Dec132011

Glass is awesome.

DateTuesday, December 13, 2011 at 01:09PM

Popping in quickly to share about the cool glass studio class that Nathan and I took last Monday (12/5) while the boys were at Options. Thanks to a handy Groupon deal, we got a good price on a private lesson at Daggett Glass Studio. We each got to make a glass paperweight...


The owner helped us (me, in particular, lol) with gathering the glass and talked us through the process...which involved constant twirling (to keep the ball centered), rolling in baking soda (that's what creates the awesome bubbles inside), tapping in color (Nathan's green was more granular than my shimmery gold topaz), blocking into shape and heating repeatedly. Here's the result:

All in all, it was a fabulous little experience and taste of just how complicated working with glass is. I have a whole new appreciation for all things glass and was stoked to learn that our local art museum has a fabulous glass exhibit opening soon. (Snagged some tickets already!) Looking forward to checking it out over the holidays! 

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