Glass Orchids

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I began melting glass in 1996 without a clue that I had started down the road towards total obsession. It was a hobby. Something to take my mind away from the high-tech-high-stress-high-paid-climb-the-corporate-ladder job I relished. Two years prior I had given birth to a lovely little girl. Somewhere between her birth and the spring of 1999 all of my life dreams and goals changed. Who can pinpoint the exact moment these things happen? We make one little decision which combines with other, seemingly unrelated little decisions until we're headed down a new unknown path without any idea how we got there or even that we are there. Feelings and ideas are planted in the shadows of thought until one day something causes them to burst forth into the light and we experience an epiphany. As you might have guessed, I left that high-tech-etc job to start Glass Orchids in the spring of 1999. Shortly thereafter, in that same year, my husband and I purchased an old farm in Maine. Our plan to escape was now out in the bright light of day, much to our surprise. Our dream was realized in the summer of 2002 when we made the final move to our farm in Maine and Greg and I both concentrated our efforts on Glass Orchids. Since then we have grown considerably and have developed our own line of specialty patterned dichroic glass that we use in our own work and sell to other artists. Greg does all the artwork and creates this glass in our studio...

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