Fused Glass House

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It all started in the early 1990's; I made stained glass earrings and my stepdad came up with the name Ear Rigs which I thought was cute, rigging creations for your ears. Years later, I grew tired of the confusion with 'earwigs'--my least favorite insect. In 2000, when Kirk and I bought a kiln to teach ourselves to fuse glass, our studio was in the stairwell of our apartment. Our baby got glass slivers in his crawling knees, and we knew it was time to leave our yellow formica countertops and dark green pile carpet for a house of our own. We figured we could fuse our way into a house...if we appropriately named our business. So it became Fused Glass House, and today we're in it, our glass house, with a converted garage studio.