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[sexy_romulan]

Hahahahaaaaaa. Take that, fiddly bits! I think I'm actually getting better at this. Although that doesn't help me much this week, what with tomorrow getting eaten by french class/flute choir concert/super top secret birthday present for Corey. I am grossly underprepared for the final exam in said french class, but I may volunteer to go first tomorrow anyway, if only to get a bit of extra time at home. Well, I should at least be able to get everything foiled by the end of the weekend.

Up, up and awaaaaayyyyyyyyyy!

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[amazon-syren.livejournal.com]

Hey, question/suggestion: Magnets?

Such as: Very simple little leaves or flowers or crescent moons, or something, with round bits of magnet (Michael's again) on the back. Priced at, like, $2/magnet. Or something.

I recognize that it's not a form that stained glass really shines in, due to the lack of light coming from a fridge-door surface, but it might work.

Just a thought. :-)

[ami-b.livejournal.com]

That is indeed an excellent thought! Although I'm not sure I could solder to a magnet, and I think glass may be too slick for a glue gun to work very well...although glass blobs do, it seems. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! I will have to experiment with this!

You have such awesome ideas for this stuff. Have you considered trying it yourself? ;)

[amazon-syren.livejournal.com]

Re: Awesome Ideas: Why, thank you. :-)

I have, in fact, not considered trying it for myself.

Basically, I hate cleaning (and little glass bits all over the place definitely require cleaning), and I have my hands all over my face (including rubbing my eyes) all the time. I think I would probably hurt myself very, very badly without too much difficulty.
So no. No glass-work (at least not where cutting is concerned) for me.

Glue-gunning glass blobs onto somethign else? -- Like making, say, a glue-gunned star-burst or fire-works display on the inside of a window-pane? That's a different story (and feel free to snag that idea, too, if you want it). But the cutting and grinding of glass (and the subsequent cornea dammage I would surely inflict upon myself) are not such a good thing, I don't think.

Re: Gluegunning magnets onto glass: I think it would probably work. I got the idea because I was over at Bronwyn's today, and she's got these two little tiny (like 2cmx1cm or so) glass frog magnets that she just adores. (And I thought: "Hey! That's glass. Ami makes stuff with glass. If she made super-simple stuff of this size out of glass, she could whip up, like, a dozen of these magnets really easily, and sell them for really low prices. Plus, hey, it would use up scraps of glass that might be too small to use in sun-catchers and so on. I shall pass that along". :-)

Anyway, the glass frogs are, I'm pretty sure, glued to the little magnets. Quite securely, no less. So I *think* it can be done. :-)


Andthere you have it. :-)

It is now five minutes to midnight (by my clock) so I have to go to bed. :-)

- TTFN,
= Amazon. :-)

[ami-b.livejournal.com]

I don't think you'd necessarily find those things to be major issues, actually - safety glasses are a good idea, clearly, as is a ready supply of bandaids, but I haven't found that I end up transferring glass bits from my hands to my face (and you're talking to the girl who can't keep makeup on for 20 minutes because she touches her face so often.) It helps when your hands are too busy to fidget with ;) The mess is admittedly a pain - my solution has been to contain it rather than clean it; hence my bat-cave in the 2nd bedroom.

Then again I am sort of possessed by the zeal of the newly converted when it comes to this (i.e. "OMG EVERYONE SHOULD TRY THIS YOU WILL LOVE IT!") so take me with a grain of salt ;)

And my scrap box is certainly getting full, so the magnet thing might be an excellent solution! Thanks! :D