by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Jan 19, 2023 | blog
PRESENATIONS OR COMMISSIONS? In my experience there is a difference between being commissioned to make a glass item for a customer and getting involved with a group of people to make something which will be presented to a person as a mark of appreciation for services...
by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Jan 12, 2023 | blog
WHATS SEALED STAYED SEALED. I have sealed many objects inside glass tubes. Mainly for artistic reasons but also there have been scientific examples. One organisation I worked for wanted stainless steel samples inside glass that was sealed under a vacuum. Usually, the...
by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Jan 5, 2023 | blog
THE MAGICIAN AND HIS GLASS EGG TIMERS I received an email through my Glass Creations website enquiring whether I can make an egg timer. Of course, I can. I mean it’s just a straight tube with a constriction in the middle. The potential customer who became real after...
by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Dec 21, 2022 | blog
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND ALL THAT This will be my last blog for this year but that isn’t really an occasion to celebrate since I don’t blog often. I write a lot, maybe too much but not always for public reading. The following is part of my editorial for the Journal of the...
by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Oct 4, 2022 | blog
GENDER, GENDER EVERWHERE BUT NOT ENOUGH TO THINK! I wish to share a story with you. In August, this year I attended the International Festival of Glass at Stourbridge. Along with a friend who wishes to remain anonymous, but I will call him Alan since that’s his name,...
by dev@caithnesscreativedesign | Sep 28, 2022 | blog
Editorial for British Society of Scientific Glassblowers Journal – Oct 22. A lot can happen between writing an Editorial and it being published and read. Time wise this is usually six weeks and little did I know at the time of creatively e juggling words would the...
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