The idea of super heating glass to melting temperatures just gives me the most delightful gooseshivers! I enjoyed stained glass for a few years, but cold glass has NOTHING on the power trip of 1200+ degree work and after a year of various fusing classes at Bullseye I dumped a chunk of savings into my very own Bullseye Edition Paragon Pearl-22.

So now that I own a kiln… where do I start?

This is the first of a many part series where your humble narrator shall chronicle her fusing adventures. The first of which will be starting my workshop. Phase 1 involved searching for ideas on how to go about setting up an in-home studio.

Face it… I’m a glass NOOB

There isn’t much out there on this key first step, and what I did find was mostly for smaller jewelry making set ups. Below 14th has a nice easy and encouraging little tutorial to check out. Not bad, but I was looking for a bit bigger scale which led me to About.com and another nice blog about fusing. Still not exactly what I wanted until I searched through one of my new favorite glass bloggers and found Cynthia’s Studio Tour post…. very thorough and super helpful it gave me some great ideas on efficient storage and work table set-up. Unfortunately, it’s an older one and when I checked it to reference here I noticed the wonderfull pictures are no longer active.

*Sad Panda*

Oh well, now that I have my kiln and an idea of what I want to do with it. Phase 2(a) is getting it plugged in, Phase 2(b) will be designing my space and picking out stuff to go in it (look forward to my adventures in IKEA land). Stay tuned Readers…More to come!