Small Victories

It's amazing to me how much I can be immersed in this work and time slips out from under my feet. This evening, it took me 45 minutes to cut and grind the first background piece: one, because I broke the first one on a curved cut, and second, the concave cut around the leaf. Seems I had forgotten about how difficult those are inside curves are when I chose this pattern! I took a long, hard look at the remainder of the cartoon and I've decided to press on anyway. I love this design, it's the reason I chose it, so I'm going to suck it up and just take my time. I'm going to be breaking a lot of pieces in the process, but I'm a smart girl and have more clear background on the way! Surprisingly it's not as difficult to cut as I feared since the non-textured side is relatively smooth. It scores and breaks surprisingly easy.

Wait until I show you the brown glass for the tree branches - whooo boy! Stay tuned, it's an amazing sheet of glass!