Just For Fun Contest Winners 2022
What amazing talent by every participant this year for our annual Just For Fun Contest! Here are our 2022 winners in each category:...
In Celebration of National Stained Art Glass Month
In honor of National Art Glass Month, Stained Glass Express, hosts an annual contest called “Just For Fun Contest”. Customers of ours, local artists, and any glass enthusiast can enter the contest under three categories: Stained Glass (Copper foil or lead), Hot/Warm Glass (Fused, Torched, Blown), and lastly Mosaics....
EVEN THE OLD MASTERS LOVE FALL COLORS
Louis Comfort Tiffany PUMPKIN AND BEETS I absolutely love this piece by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848 – 1933). This was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris. It was later installed in Tiffany’s country estate, Laurelton Hall. It is currently at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum in...
How to Design the Perfect DIY Workshop Station for Your Home
by Andrea Lozoya Whether you enjoy working on a favorite creative hobby, making handmade arts and crafts, or doing a variety of DIY projects in your free time, it’s important to have a dedicated workspace in your home where you can focus. Designing your own workshop station will...
WHICH GLASS MEDIUM?
When Stained Glass Express Opened in 1988, we were literally a Stained Glass Store. We sold stained glass and the supplies that went with the copper foil method. We were a few years into it before we even brought any lead came in. It is quite a different story...
THE JUST FOR FUN CONTEST
We have now been doing the Just For Fun Contest for 30 Years! That is staying power! Here are some entries from years past. It was all stained glass back when we started out. No fusing, no mosaics, and no hot glass. How things have changed! When we started...
COLOR OF THE YEAR 2021
Every year I look forward to the announcement of Pantone’s color of the year. They have been doing this for over 20 years. The announcement influences fashion, home furnishings, industrial design and a glass sale at Stained Glass Express! To pick the color, the Pantone color experts look at...
THE AMAZING GLASS CHALLENGE 2020!
Here is a good thing that happened in 2020! The amazing Glass Challenge. Endings and Beginnings! The Entries really are amazing. We are proud to be the host of this contest and be associated with such talented people. We want to acknowledge and thank the founders of The Amazing...
COE
CONFUSION OR EFFECTIVE What it means is coefficient of expansion. It is a measurement of the rate that glass will expand and contract when it is heated and cooled. In the good old days, we just lived and died by put 90 COE together or put 96 COE together. ...
URO BY YOUGH
On May 7, 2020 Youghiogheny and Oceanside announced a partnership where Oceanside will continue with the Spectrum line and accessory glass and Youghiogheny will take on the manufacturing of the Uroboros line. It is exciting to have the Uroboros line again. With Youghiogheny manufacturing the Uroboros line, we not...