Hot Glass

[Grumpy John]

A series of images showing glass blowing.
My wife and I did a cruise to Hawaii earlier this year, and to my surprise there was a fully functioning glass blowing studio on the top deck. There were two shown every sea day and I went to nearly all of them. The evening ones were the most interesting as you could see the glass glowing white hot.

[seaslug]

Great set John, I have a similar set taken at the Deloraine craft fair a couple of years back. It’s amazing work and the products incredibly cheap considering.

[Isac]

It has always fascinated me John, lucky you and great series.

[Isac]

Not real pleasing to get outbid, but good to be rubbing shoulders with the well heeled! The oinly thing I won on a cruise is the bingo jackpot on the last day of a cruise on the Gemini.

[Grumpy John]

I made a bid of US$1600 on a really nice platter, only to have someone go straight to US$2200. I was already $400 over my limit, so I kept my hands in my pockets for the rest of the night. At a meet and greet after the auction I found out from the artist that she would do the same piece for me for US$1200. just shows how carried away people get at auctions.

[Isac]

Maybe a few years ago but now out of my league.