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| Photo stolen from Vetro newsletter |
We visited
Vetro Glassblowing Studio & Gallery on a trip through Grapevine, Texas,
during the Christmas holidays. Grapevine is the “Christmas Capital of Texas” so
we were there to enjoy some of the 1,400 holiday events that occur every year,
including making a holiday ornament.
Yes, that’s 1,400!
The folks
at Vetro (means glass in Italian) offer glass ornament making sessions, where
visitors can pick out colors and stick a glob of glass into flames and twirl
them around until those colors turn into a fun, beautiful globe. I wish I could
say that my ornament of lovely sea blue and turquoise was all my doing, but
those artisans working at Vetro had a lot to do with it. And really, that’s
what you want. I think it would be pretty scary sticking a poll with glass on
the end into a 2,000-degree furnace and then blowing air into this sweltering blob
that suddenly expands — without someone there to help.
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| Here I am working hard on my holiday ornament. |
The Vetro
folks are offering to help visitors set fire to glass again, but this time for
Halloween. For $55 plus tax, you can create hand-blown pumpkins in a host of
wonderful colors, either ones you pick or a pre-selected mix. The sessions will
be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 10, 17 and 24 and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 23 and 30 and
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Halloween, Oct. 31, 2015.
Pumpkins
will be available for pick-up the next business day after 3 p.m. unless it’s a
Saturday and then available the following Tuesday.
Want to see
how it’s done? Check out this video of Vetro glassblowing.
Granted, making glass pumpkins
isn’t that weird. But these blowhards are having a steampunk glass party that
makes the weird grade for sure. Glass on the Tracks on Nov. 7 in Grapevine is a
mixture of glass art demonstrations, live music and the Truth or Consequences
Glass Art Auction, their twisted version of a live auction where what doesn’t
sell, gets smashed in their glass guillotine.
Want to see a video of this as
well. Click here.
Want to make a pumpkin or attend the party? Purchase tickets at http://vetroartglass.com/.
Want to make a pumpkin or attend the party? Purchase tickets at http://vetroartglass.com/.
