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Realizing that I haven’t cut even my first piece of glass and that the list I’m outlining below could very well be extremely premature, the list below is a running tally of the items I’m planning to make once I get my groove on.

• Hanging light fixture for the stairwell landing
• Light fixture for the top of the stairs
• Light fixture for the downstairs hall
• Light fixture to replace the nasty ceiling fan over the kitchen table
• Light fixture for the Kitchen
• Lighted Street address sign for the front of the house
• Inserts for the kitchen cabinets
• Insert for new entry door

That’s a lot of glass, huh? The more I think about it, the more I’m planning to use mostly clear and textured glass with just a few punches of color here or there. I’m still trying to form an aesthetic in my mind of how I want everything to look like. I want each of the lighting fixtures to relate to each other, so over the next few weeks or months I’ll be working up designs for those. The crown jewel is going to be the hanging piece for the landing. Once I get that one designed, the plans for the others will follow along very quickly.

To some it may seem that I’m putting the cart before the horse, but I’m looking at this the same way I do a technology project. I learn so much better if I have a real “thing” that I’m building on which to apply the knowledge I’m picking up.