Deck the halls with Dragons and Trolls

After I used one of my sons old Christmas stockings to help display our welcome sign ~ I stood back and realized we have decorated our shop with Dragons and Trolls :-)

Aspen Hot Glass ~ Christmas Cards

When I was first studying art in Seattle I wanted to design for Greeting card companies. Now some 10+ years later I design cards for our glass company and give a free card with every gift. This has been a blast for me and I feel I can scratch off a line on my bucket list :-).

This year I created 3 new Christmas cards and hope to continue the trend with new designs every year.

Aspen Hot Glass ~ Santa’s Subcontractors

Christmas is upon us and Bill and I feel like we are subcontractors for Santa Claus. Our store has been like our “beach cabin” get away that allows us to dream big and in the process we have been developing new products. Bill has been getting back into making glass icicles and I have been making cork top bottle stoppers for long-term storage of wine and champagne that easy go into he refrigerator.

These are called “Wine Bottle Bling”

I also have expanded my wine accessories sections and added a “Wine Box Bling” for my friends that drink boxed wine. Bill has set up a small torch station at the store and has been doing torch demos on Saturdays. Last Saturday he made several of his little fish. As I was turning his fish into pendants I put one on top of one of my wine corks and now we have “Fish Bottle Bling” for wine bottles too. What does it mean when all things I do right now go into wine accessories?

New Pictures of our store “Aspen Hot Glass ~ Made in Montana ~ Gift and Gallery”

Images from our new store ~ Aspen Hot Glass ~ Gift and Gallery

Open sign with our dragon Harmony

The office

This is our Geek sign ~ in is a short story of Bill and Rae's live ~ before and after life as glass artists.

So far we only have our glass in the shop. After our Saturday market ends in October we hope to have Fire Creek's Glass, a guy who makes guitars out of cigar boxes and a metal working artist. All hand made in Montana art. I will post more pictures as we update our shop.

Aspen Hot Glass ~ Made in Montana Gifts and Gallery

This is the new home of

Aspen Hot Glass ~ Made in Montana Gifts and Gallery.

I feel like we have given birth to a new baby store :-).

This is our neighbor and landlord ~ “The Brooks”

We are located at 1072 Eastside Highway, Corvallis, Montana

Stay tuned of updates on the progress of this evolution :-).

The doors officially open on August 17.

Aspen Hot Glass T-shirts are here :-)

My nephew Colter Lease has a new company named HipJaw ~ he does custom apparel printing. I gave him a digital image of the dragon logo I designed for Aspen Hot Glass and he silk-screened t-shirts for us. I love how he was able to capture the depth of colors and textures in the silk screening process. This is not your grandpas silk screening process with squeegees, frames and pin alignment systems. This is a whole new gig. Our Aspen Hot Glass dragon shirts sell for $18.00 + shipping and can be purchased by e-mailing me at rae@aspenhotglass.com or soon Colter will have a web site with an order page. He will have this shirt and so much more to choose from.