Comment Varification

I have turned on the Word Verificaiton feature in the comments. I know this will be troubling to do but that extra minute will help to not allow the spammers to attach nosense to the comments.

Lampworking - Beadmaking Classes

We are gearing up for beadmaking classes at the studio. Lampworking is the art of creating objects in glass using the hot flame of a torch. We have glass, color, supplies, kilns, and torches set up and ready to go. Tuesday evenings we will have classes. Call Brent to reserve a seat as they will fill up fast.
Come and check it out.

We Have a Winner

Congratulations to Dr. Nancy Osborn. She has won our drawing for a one of a kind art glass piece. Thanks to everyone for signing up.
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OKCCC Show

I hope you all will make it by the booth this weekend at OKCCC.

Bella Forte

We went over to Chris McGahan's place on Saturday. Italian Jim's for pizza and pasta and then blowing until about 1:00 in the morning. It was great. What a set up. Very cool indeed. Look for good things coming out of his studio to be sure.
We are getting ready for the OKCCC Arts Festival this weekend. It should be a hoot. I hope it is a good show. We worked on Pumpkins last night and have some good new stuff. Drop by if you get the chance they say this is one of the best shows in OKC.
Kudos to Chris and his family.
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Something Big

Did you check out latest round of photos? Fun stuff going on in the studio.
We are gearing up for the OKCCC Art Fest over Labor Day Weekend at Oklahoma City Community College. I hope you all can make it by. I am going to try to unveil our new hummingbird feeder just for the Ice Chick too.
We are going over to Bella Forte Glass in Yukon on Saturday afternoon/evening for the debut blowing in Chris's studio. I can hardly wait. What great things.
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August Work

Here are some photos of the Blue Sage Studios booth at the MidSummer Nights Fair in Norman. There are also photos here of my work over the past couple of months.
http://www.bluesagestudios.com/August/

Glass Ornament at flickr

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Originally uploaded by papaverfugue.

This is really cool. flickr will allow a posting to a blog site. This is a nice ornament me thinks.

Back in Action

We are back in town and continue to be up and running in the studio. It seems cooler and the blowing is going well. We worked a bit on Monday night. We made some pumpkins for the up and coming fall season.
I went by Bella Forte today and took a look at Chris' annealehr. I am going to have to try to find a good sheet on how to program it. The ramping down is going to be the difficult part I think.
School starts soon and I will be posting our Fall Schedule soon.
Thanks for the interest.
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Vacation

I will be heading out of town for a few days. If you need anything call the house. 405-396-8428. Brent will be around and should be working in the studio too.
Stay in touch.

The Firehouse Arts Center - Midsummer Nights Art Fest is located at 400 S. Flood in Lions Park in Norman. It runs from 6-11 tonight. It is a great location and really cool community show.

Awesome Day

We went to visit Chris over at Bella Forte in Yukon. He is going to have the most excellent setup. I can't wait until he is up and running and making his Artifacts again. Looking at that series today I forgot how cool they are.
We will be blowing at 7 am on Monday. Hope to see you all here.
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J. Malcolm International 405-408-8111

J. Malcolm International 405-408-8111 Jeff came by the studio last week. This is some cool stuff. Jeff is a designer and etcher.

Bella Forte

Chris is making good progress on his glass studio. Three Cheers! Check out the Bella Forte Blog at http://bellaforte.blogspot.com/
We are going and blowing regularly. Thanks to all those tuning into the webcam broadcast via Yahoo Messenger. Come watch us blow glass anytime.
Happy Forth!

New Web Cam for Studio

I have a new webcam for the Blue Sage Studios. You can watch us blow glass at your leisure. It is most excellent. Check out the webcam at my Yahoo Messenger under the user name andyboatman. I am not sure how it works but you will need Yahoo! Messenger. I will try to get a feed to the website soon but for now this is what is working.
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LOOK@OKC | Powered by NewsOK.com

LOOK@OKC | Powered by NewsOK.com I do not know if the page will take you to the right location but there is a great photo of our booth at the Paseo Festival. The photo is from a really cool angle. The Look@OKC Site is pretty cool too.

Summer Blowing

We are trying to get a summer schedule up and going. It seems to work well starting around 7:00 am and working until around 11 or so and then working again around 8:00 p.m. until around 11 at night. This way we avoid the heat of the day and folks can join us for blowing glass throughout the day. Afternoon's are reserved for naptime.

Here is a great photo of the glass and a bubble.  

All is Well

Everything is up and running. Brent has installed five new fans in the roof. They pull out a lot of heat. It is really amazing.
The studio is running well. My brother came to town and brought some new (used) equipment. We now have a great granny hanger for the pipes to hang from when working alone along with a new yoke/heat shield combonation. Gotta come check it out.
My folks were in an accident last week and that has made things a little crazy. Mom is at Intgris Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Center. She has a couple of fractures in her pelvis but is on the mend. Room 361 I think. Dad is doing alright. but their car is toast.
Call. Drop by. I think evening blowing is going to be the thing as well as early mornings. The heat of the day is a bit hot even with the new fans.
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Update on the Studio

Greetings faithful readers. This is for Chris and I thought I would post it up for all to see instead of just an email.
We are in the process of ordering a new Mercury Relay. I burnt our old one up. We discovered we are pulling about 65 Amps in the furnace. It is designed to pull 45. Why then 65 you may ask. Well, I have only ever been running two coils in the furnace. It is designed for three. With three it pulls 45 with two it pulls 65 Amps.
We rewired the furnace from the breaker box with a new number 2 service entrance wire. It should take the load. We put on a new 70 Amp breaker. We put in a new number 2 wire coming into the furnace itself, plugging into the Mercury Relay. The relay was rated for 60 Amps. It burnt up.
Last night.
We switched out a relay from the annealher so we can blow today. Hopefully I can get a new relay overnighted one rated for 80 Amps.
I guess that is about all I know for now.
We did get to blow glass yesterday. It was great.
We will be showing our glass this weekend at the Acousticadia Festival on Arcadia Lake in Edmond. 15th Street Spring Creek Entrance. www.acousticadia.com
Stay in touch.
Give me a ring 405-473-0754
This has been Andy Boatman at Blue Sage Studios.
Always an adventure.