Aspen Hot Glass ~ Hand made glass art by Bill and Rae Grout

I am not very happy with what was pulled out of the Kiln this morning ~ as I look at the glass I said to myself ~ hey that’s not what was in my head yesterday when I was melting that Italian glass into such cool designs. Where is are the cool glass designs that had been in my head…… have my designs from yesterday gone to glass heaven and these pieces that lay before me be just empty shells of what would have been cool pieces of glass. These un-cool pieces of glass are destined to be tossed into… Continue

Before I met Bill I was a single mom ~ my best friend and consultant was a Samoyed named Polar Bear. My son and I picked him up from the local animal shelter when he was 6 years old. At the time he had been badly abused and spent the first week at the vets and was terribly overweight. The average Samoyed weighs about 6

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Bill and live on a 10 acre farm ~ next to his sisters 10 acre farm ~ next to his mothers 80 acres. We have a lot of elbowroom and places to plant things. Being the gardening nut I am ~ this place is like paradise ~ with a 100 day growing season LOL.

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I was a single mom raising my son Steven who was a wonderful young person that became a fantastically successful man. Proud momma here :-) I was the difficult one to raise ~ Steven would tell me what music would rot my brain and when to turn off the computer and go to bed. He also would tell me ~ in an affectionate way ~ I needed to get a life. It’s a good thing I met Bill shortly before Steven moved out to attend coll

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In the late 80’s and early 90’s I lived in Kirkland Washington.

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