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.

Compassion For Enduring Carrots

This weekend I painted carrots and greens on our bunny hutch with 2 carrots in a loving embrace. Last year I pulled carrots out of the ground that were intertwined as if they were holding on to each other in a tender hug. When I find carrots like this I don’t put them in my basket with the other carrots that will eventually be eaten. I put carrots that are in an enduring embrace into the compost bin allowing them to grow old together.

Painting sunflowers on our goat house

There is something fun about spending the entire afternoon painting sunflowers on an old goat house. (I know Dale Chihuly has a boathouse but Montana glass artists have goat houses ~ Glass artist humor LOL.) Bill and I recently gave away our remaining 2 pigmy goats. This enables us to use the land for more garden space and possibly a flower cutting garden. And don’t feel too sorry of the goats ~ they went to a farm that breeds goats and had boyfriends already liked up. I hope to paint vegetables on our bunny’s hutch and maybe eggs and nests on our chicken house. What a great way to spend a sunny afternoon.

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I designed a new logo to kick off our 2009 Glass art season. Bill and I love dragons and being dueling pyromaniacs / glass artists ~ it was only appropriate to incorporate a dragon into our logo. In the design I used images of Bill’s marbles and my bottle stoppers along with our beads and pendants. This dragon was inspired by an Escher dragon I had as a black light poster in my room when I was a teenager. We hope to have T-shirts and canvas bags with this new design soon.

Our new logo was introduced Saturday, May 2, 2009 at the first day of our Missoula Artist Market. It was one of those days people dream of where the sky is incredibly blue and the air is filled with laughter from a diverse group of cheerful people.

The place was like a carnival and Bill and I were Carnies. Not the kind that shout step right up ~ we were more like the ones that stand behind the rides and pull the levers and let the fun begin. In our case the fun is looking into Vortex marbles with optical elusions making the viewer feel they may fall in and find Alice’s rabbit hole. Our Bottle stoppers can be held in the air like swards with glass that takes the viewer on a incredible journey turning and twisting to see the encased treasures buried like hidden treasures.

Some days we receive payment in 2 forms ~ currency and smiles :-) It is such a cool feeling to watch faces light up as people enjoy the eye candy we have created.