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So another neat thing about stained glass is that really all you are doing is sticking
pieces of glass together the way that you want to. There is a lot of creativity that
you can explore by using different kinds of glass. For example there is no reason you
can’t find an old mirror and cut it up into pieces that kind of get integrated into your
design because a mirror is about the same thickness as the glass that we use in stained
glass and you can prepare those pieces of mirror with lead cane or with copper foil
and integrate little pieces of mirror into your design. You can even, you can buy a type
of glass that is called beveled glass, this is generally a clear glass but it has a nice
cut bevel to the edges so that is almost looks like little gems, kind of like crystals or
diamonds they have kind of a texture to them. I like using these glass, kind of these melted
glass marbles and you can get these in all kinds of craft stores. It is important that
you do use glass and not plastic or some other material but these are cool, I mean you can
incorporate these into your designs as things like, I don’t know the centers of flowers
or you can make eyeballs out of them, or I like using them as, kind of these soft white
ones, I have used them as bubbles in kind of a aquatic stained glass I did once with
kind of a fish and so again if they are made out of glass, anything that is made out of
glass, you know if you want to try to integrate it into a stained glass panel you usually
can.