tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38574336050980189862024-03-05T06:09:20.017-07:00All Of Green GlassThis blog is where I talk about my three passions: Glass, Gardening, and my Straw Bale Home. I have a front yard edible garden where we produce a lot of our family's food, I am a recycled glass artist, and I am building a straw bale house. "All of Green Glass" is both about the recycled (green) glass, the (green) garden, and the (green) house.Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-81264012779892661072015-02-16T16:26:00.000-07:002018-09-26T09:32:57.446-06:00"Windows of Heaven" Stained Glass Picture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This year The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is hosting a world wide art competition. The theme for the competition is "Tell me the stories of Jesus". I decided to enter the competition. I immediately knew what scene I wanted to do. My wife and I have been extremely blessed by keeping the commandment of tithing. We have found ourselves without money on several occasions and we always have had what we need to take care of our family. So when I heard the theme of the competition, I instantly thought of the story of the Widow's Mite. At the same time I thought of the scripture in Malachi that promises that the windows of heaven will be opened up and blessings will be poured out upon those who are faithful in paying their tithing. I thought that the two scriptures would make a very visual effect. In preparing for this piece I researched the temple in Jerusalem and tried to recreate the scene just as it might have occurred. I think I have it fairly close, much better than most of the old paintings of the Widows Mite story. Here are a bunch of pictures:<br />
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Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-52929014612328663812015-01-11T22:49:00.000-07:002018-09-26T09:33:49.929-06:00Soldering tip: How to keep the solder from running through to the back<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In this short video I show how to keep the solder from running through small gaps to the back of the piece.<br />
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When making a large stained glass panel there are usually some small spots where the pieces don't quite line up perfectly and small gaps appear. These tiny gaps sometimes result in a small pool of solder on the back side of the piece. An easy way to overcome this problem is to snip small sections of copper wire to fill the small gaps with.<br />
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I use reclaimed electrical wire salvaged from a house that was demolished. I stripped the sheathing from the wire with a knife and use the wire cutters on my needle nosed pliers to cut it to length. If you have a gap that runs the length of the piece, you can cut the wire to length and bend it to fit; or, if the gap is just in a small corner, you can just cut a tiny little nub of wire to fill the spot. as long as the wire does not have a coating on it, fluxing it will allow the solder to stick to it and not pass through to the other side. I use this technique when the holes are not very big: if the gaps are too big, I'll re-cut the piece to fit.</div>
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I was asked to do a stained glass picture of the Christus <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;">statue originally sculpted by Bertel Thorvaldsen for my wife's Aunt. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px;">A replica stands in the LDS visitor's center at Temple Square in Salt Lake City. That version is surrounded by a wall mural of space with stars and planets. This picture reflects on that background. I have used little glass bobbles as stars. The panel is 24 inches tall and 18 inched wide and has 154 pieces and is done in the Tiffany style of copper foil and solder. My wife's aunt said that her husband would make the frame to match their existing decor if I were to make the light box. I will try and get some pictures of the piece once it is in place at their house with the frame on. This was a fun commission with surprisingly few pieces. If you are interested in purchasing one, contact me.</span></span></span><br />
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Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-80858214063659612902014-09-09T18:44:00.000-06:002014-09-09T18:44:16.074-06:00Small Manti Temple Stained Glass for a Boy Scout Fund Raiser Auction Piece<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is a small stained glass picture of the Manti Utah temple that I made for an auction for the Boy Scouts in my ward. It is a little smaller than my regular temples at just under 17" x 11" Sorry about the orientation of the pictures, I'm going to try and fix them when I get more time. This was the first picture I deliberately made very squiggly lines. I think it adds a lot to the picture especially when there are limited pieces like in this piece.<br />
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Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-45232613660685820362014-08-16T15:05:00.002-06:002014-10-28T16:22:29.283-06:00Stained Glass Timpanogos Temple <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here is a stained glass picture of the LDS Timpanogos Temple. The glass is 44" tall by 33 1/2" wide. The frame ads about 5 inches to each side. It has over 830 pieces. It is the biggest single piece I have done (the door doesn't count because it was made up of 10 pannels) It has a light box included and can be plugged in to light it up. This item is for sale!. I have finally had some time to make some stained glass that I can sell instead of giving away for a wedding or Christmas present. I'll be putting this in the Sanpete County fair and then in the Utah State Fair so that I can hopefully drum up some business.<br />
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Update: This piece won "Best In Show" at the Utah State Fair this fall. That was exciting. It is now for sale on<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/200487859/stained-glass-lds-timpanogos-temple?ref=shop_home_active_8"> my Etsy store</a>.</div>
Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-11801102930569197922014-05-30T23:43:00.000-06:002014-05-30T23:43:28.303-06:00Stained Glass American Flag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We have a family reunion coming up and we are supposed to bring an item to be auctioned off as a fund raiser. I decided to do a little stained glass piece. While I was thinking about what design to use, I found some beveled glass kits that I had forgotten I had bought a couple of years ago. I found them at a thrift store and didn't have a specific project in mind for them, but the price was good, so I bought them. One of the sets was a set of four stars made up of five little kite shaped pieces. I decided that they would look great as stars in a flag. I guess I was right because I think they look wonderful.</div>
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We had to turn off the lights to see the wonderful glow it gives off. It is a lot like when we carve jack o lanterns: the kids all have to turn off the lights and put candles inside just so they can see what they look like.<br />
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The beveled glass stars made a neat light pattern on the table.<br />
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Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-20136868987197242042014-01-10T15:49:00.000-07:002014-01-10T15:49:13.109-07:00Stained Glass Salt Lake Temple<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Every year at Christmas we rotate through our siblings on who we buy presents for. In the past I have been giving each sibling a stained glass picture of the temple where they were married. This year we had my wife's sister Elizabeth. At first we thought we had her brother Jonathan, for whom I made a Manti Temple picture as a wedding gift a few years ago, so I thought I was off the hook as far as making a large stained glass project for Christmas. Come to find out just a little too late that we had Elisabeth instead. She and her husband were married years ago in the Salt Lake Temple. So, for Christmas I made them a stained glass picture of the Salt Lake LDS Temple. I had just finished my second version of the Salt Lake Temple which I think was my best work yet, but was a huge undertaking. I needed to come up with a much easier design because of the time constraint. I ended up with a still stunning straight on view from the east side with a basic coined diamond breakup for the sky. It ended up with about 100 more pieces than I wanted originally, but they were pretty much straight forward cuts so it wasn't that bad. Again, As I have done in th elast few pieces, I put it in a light box frame.<div>
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Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-2093455633104449652013-12-09T21:56:00.001-07:002013-12-09T21:58:07.777-07:00Several New Projects<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have been busy lately and have not taken the time to post much. So, here is a post with pictures of the projects that I have been working on. Notice that I have been building light box frames for most of my art lately.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Manti Temple made to go into a door.</td></tr>
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Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-10643450891340455672013-06-27T23:48:00.002-06:002013-06-27T23:50:28.328-06:00Two Tools In One: Stained Glass<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have been working a lot on stained glass lately and thought it might be helpful to show you how I have made my glass cutting more efficient. I do this by taping my grozer pliers to my glass cutter. Now this only works with the pistol grip pliers, but I like it a lot. It only took me a few minutes of using them together like this and I was hooked. I don't see them as two tools anymore, I go from cutting to nipping with ease and without even thinking about it.<br />
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No more dropping one tool to pick up the next, and then dropping that one to go back to the first. This trick has saved me lots of time and probably some arthritis. I know it has saved my ears. All that tool dropping can get loud.<br />
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I used blue painting tape because I just wanted to see if it would work and wanted to be able to peel it off if it didn't work well. Apparently it works great because it has been over a year of using the tools like this and I haven't even thought of replacing the tape.<br />
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Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-89800977631702867502013-04-08T23:25:00.000-06:002013-04-08T23:29:27.478-06:00Finishing up the Light Clay Wood Chip<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here is a video update of the shed. Winter and other projects and responsibilities have slowed down the progress of the shed, but I have been working more on it lately. I am just about done with the light clay wood chip infill, and am getting ready for the plaster. This weekend we installed the door and started putting up the chicken wire over the pallets in preparation for the plaster.<br />
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Looking back on this project, I have decided that it has taken A LOT OF WORK! This way of building is not for the faint of heart. Some of the painstakingly time consuming things I have done so far are:<br />
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<li>The foundation: stone by stone trying to save as much mortar as possible by fitting each rock neatly within the wall. Usually masons will slop on a large wad of mortar and roughly fit the rocks together. It takes much less time, but uses about twice as much mortar. I used 15 bags. Even easier would have been to pour cement footings. The way I did it saved me money, and used up a pile of rocks and used cement curbing dumped in my yard by my neighbor (dumped before I bought the lot[he did insist on taking care of the pile, but I told him I had a use for it])</li>
<li>Salvaging the materials: I spent hours dumpster diving looking for useful materials. Then, when I got them, I usually had to take out nails, cut of bad parts, or reinforce sections. Pallet wood is tough and ornery. The nails don't come out easily, it is hard to cut, and never straight. </li>
<li>The light clay wood chips: Even though I used a cement mixer this process took forever. We dug by hand a hole big enough for our trampoline to get enough clay. We found that the term "light clay wood chips" isn't really "light" at all. When you try and use a light clay slip to hold the wood chips together, they just become flaky when they dry out (even worse if they freeze while still wet). It takes a lot of clay to keep the chips stuck together. Our recipe ended up being something like 1/2 parts water, 1 1/2 parts clay, 1 part wood chips. The end consistency ended up a lot like plaster. In fact, I ended up using it much like plaster to patch holes. That is another problem with the way I used pallets; There were many gaps that I missed while filling up the walls that I had to patch later.</li>
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Other time consuming things I have still waiting for me to complete include plastering both inside and outside and putting down the earthen floor. The upside of both of these is that I will be using far less material to make both products. The walls of the shed are about 10 inches thick and took a few tones of clay and wood to fill. I plan on putting just two coats of plaster on the walls, so they shouldn't take as much clay . I will need to sift the clay better, but a good chunk of the plaster will be made of sand.</div>
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I am not saying that the methods I have employed are bad, but they are just more than I originally reckoned for. When I am done, I will have a large, sturdy, environmentally friendly, warm, and comfy shed. I think I'll turn it into my glass shop.</div>
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Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-58885223881486067602013-01-09T11:55:00.001-07:002013-01-09T11:58:43.598-07:00Stained Glass Cherry Blossom Door<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is a Stained glass door that I finished a little while ago. It is one of three doors we salvaged that had been stored in an old barn. The owner of the barn found them in there as he was getting ready to tear it down. He doesn't know how old the doors are, but expects them to be quite old. We refinished this door and decided that I should put in stained glass. I looked around and decided that I liked the cherry tree in blossom idea. So, I drew up the design in Google Sketchup and had the local print shop print them out to scale.<br />
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The project took me several months to complete with many, many hours on the job. The door has about 1200 pieces. We decided that this door would be our bedroom door and the other two doors would be the entry doors of our straw bale house we are going to build. The other two doors will have side light windows which will be included in the design and add another five panes of glass. Because this is meant for the bedroom, all of the glass is opaque.<br />
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These pictures really don't do the door justice. We are storing the door in the basement where there isn't good light. Plus, these are tall doors and the ceiling is too short to stand the door upright down there, so the pictures are a little off, but the door really is stunning to look at.<br />
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This was my first stained glass installation. So far everything else I have done has been for hanging up in windows or put in picture frames. On this window I had to buy glass panels to put on either side of the stained glass and basically make a triple glazed window.</div>
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Now that this one is finished, I need to start on the other two. They will both be basically the same pattern expanded for the side light windows. I have made a few design changes which will make them even better.<br />
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Once I have the doors installed, I'll post pictures and maybe a little video so you can see how awesome they really look.<br />
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Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-15792057522015345712012-10-17T15:16:00.000-06:002012-10-17T15:16:24.035-06:00A poor video of me putting light clay wood chips in the wall<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I know I need to work on my video technique, but I was also working at the time and it is hard to pay attention to both where the camera is pointed and what you are doing while slopping mud. I just wanted to show what it is like using light clay wood chip. From the video you can see that the clay isn't too light. It definitely isn't cob, but we found that if we didn't have enough clay in the mix, the small wood chips wouldn't stick together very well. The first few batches we did had about the same recipe as light clay straw, but with wood chips replacing the straw. The results of those first batches were unsatisfactory and the walls started flaking off wood chips when they were rubbed. With more clay in the mix, it makes it less insulative, it has more thermal mass, and it is much stronger.</div>
Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-694388817005297762012-09-10T07:11:00.000-06:002012-09-10T08:08:42.458-06:00First blog video<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;">Here is the first video on this blog. It is a long video about the shed and how far we have gotten on it so far.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A view of the loft from the ladder. We still need to add the second layer and insulate the loft.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking toward the north west corner. One piece of plywood is being used as a form for the light clay wood chips</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rocket stove wasn't drawing correctly, so i dismantled it . I'll rebuild it, but I'll follow the directions in the book more carefully this time.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The south east corner where a permanent ladder will eventually go.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The north side where we are putting in the light clay wood chips. You can see the plywood forms above the scaffollding</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">wood chips filled up to the top of the pallets</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">looking down the pallets. You can see the electrical wire in the first row of pallets and then the second row is the one being filled up right now.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The south east corner. You can see some of the chunks of foam inside the wood chips. We are using a lot of the foam to help boost the r-value and just as a filler so we don't have to make so much light clay wood chips. Because I got the foam for free, I'd rather use it than the wood chips, but the wood chips are needed to fill in the gaps and make it all fit together better, plus I don't have enough foam to insulate the whole shed.</td></tr>
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Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-54303694389906486652012-07-25T10:01:00.000-06:002012-07-25T10:02:40.406-06:00Putting up the pallet walls<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Putting the walls up</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">40" Pallets leave a 16" gap on top where I had to cut up a pallet to fit</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Once the foundation was finished it was time to put up the pallet walls. I looked up the standard pallet size on line and it said it was 48"x40" So I made my plans accordingly. I was able to get a lot of pallets for free, but only a fraction of them were the "standard size". I also found out that not all pallets are created equal and that there is a huge variety when it comes to quality. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">After scrounging up a whole lot of pallets (over 130) I was able to find enough to frame up the walls. After watching a bunch of </span><span style="background-color: white;">YouTube</span><span style="background-color: white;"> videos, I decided to use 2x4s in between each column of pallets with 4x4s on </span><span style="background-color: white;">the</span><span style="background-color: white;"> corners. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">With many of the pallets not quite square (along with wavy but free 2x4s) it was necessary to use clamps quite a bit to keep things as square as possible. If you do decide to make anything with pallets, I highly </span><span style="background-color: white;">recommend getting some 5'+ long clamps along with some 8" long clamps. It will make your project go much more smoothly and look much better. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">To speed things up while working alone, I build a few columns on the ground with 2x4s on each side, then raised them up and placed the loose pallets in between.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using clamps helps keep it all square</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clamps also help hold it up square when I'm working alone</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Skinny pallets in the corner so I have plenty of room for the door ( I didn't have the door yet, so I didn't know the size)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Starting on the floor joists for the loft</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarah working on filling gaps between slats. Yes she is using the power tools.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The north side with the walls all up and getting ready for the loft floor to go up </td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The pallets in deck on the loft were made up completely of 40" x 40" pallets. I seemed to get a lot of these and ended up needing to use them on the walls as well. There are sections of the walls that use regular framing like around the windows and the door.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The loft floor half way complete</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The floor from underneath</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Joist were salvaged from a house being torn down.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I ran 2x4s along the joists to sit the pallets on</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So far all of the 2x4s are salvaged</td></tr>
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</div>Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-43719957969872422572012-07-12T13:09:00.000-06:002012-07-16T10:37:13.461-06:00Building a Shed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image of the Google SketchUp Model</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Started collecting pallets and rocks</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">spreading out the rocks</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;">This project has "Crazy" written all over it. First of all the reason behind it. Our son has autism and qualifies for services such as SSI, DSPD, and Medicaid. There are several requirements to be able to quaify and one of those has to do with assets that we own. One of the asset stipulations is that we cannot own property that we don't live on. Well, back in December we bought some property to build our straw bale house on. When we did that SSI put us on hold with their services </span><span style="background-color: white;">for one year</span><span style="background-color: white;">. We figured that we could survive for a little while, but now the bild still hasn't started and we are being told that come December if we don't live on the property we will loose SSI. Because the other programs are based off of our eligibility for SSI, we will loose them as well. By the way there is a 4 year waiting list to get back on. We have gone the rounds to try and find a solution, but it boils down to needing to move on the property while we build. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first day of foundation wall</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Long story short, we just bought a camper trailer and I'm going to build a shed. The purpose of the shed is to give us extra space to store things, a place to hang out and a place to eat together. After the house is built, the shed will serve as my glass shop until I can build an official shop and then the shed will be a really cool hangout for the kids.Here is the link to the SketchUp model: <a href="http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=f8e22fec33d9919499a2ba6ee90ca252">http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=f8e22fec33d9919499a2ba6ee90ca252</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The corner at the right was the shallowest and everything after that took more rocks and a lot more time</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The code here says that anything over 200 square feet needs a building permit, but anything under that doesn't, which also means that it doesn't need inspections. So, I am going to build a pallet shed with an earthen floor, light clay straw/wood chips/foam insulation inside the pallets, a rocket mas heater, and an earthen plaster finish inside and out. I was hoping to do all of this under $500. The original plan was to use a living roof, but with the materials at hand the liv</span><span style="background-color: white;">ing roof would be too heavy, so I'll probably use a metal roof manufactured here in town</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">instead.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">The foundation used a lot of stone and urbanite (used concrete) mortared together with a cement cap to make it all level. Anchor bolts were put in between the rocks and mortared in. The mortar cost $75, the cement $41, the rocks and urbanite came off the property $0 and the anchor bolts (and a lot of other materials for this little project) were salvaged from a dumpster $0. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trying to bring up the wall to the right level</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I have been able to find all of the 2x4 material, pallets, windows, door, joists for the loft, wiring, screws, trim, and carpet (for the loft) all through dumpster diving as well as some of the treated toe ups, and most of the plywood. As we get further along I'll keep you up to date on what I have salvaged and what I have had to purchase. The reasons we are trying to keep it cheep are 1) Duh who wants to spend extra money, and 2) we are trying to keep a good down payment for the construction loan for the real house.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First corner finished</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This process takes a lot longer than just pouring a cement foundation</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I spent hours doing this. After sitting like this for a few hours , It would take me several minutes before I could stand up straight</td></tr>
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<br /></div>Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-83829524158526519762012-01-06T16:41:00.001-07:002012-02-08T09:15:38.268-07:00Salvaging a Shed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyAllsbe0HyIBf1JoCSAqj32Ww-9QZo6qMlPTnr3NcrzOMioWRdelRhsbcQZmi76JXErKRuF90ZgIQkPB7iPPyqN7AOB_oUuvHzMvOwJimTn-fif26KgijvdrkVJXjtH_DZqYTAPq7ReMK/s1600/2011-12-17_08-48-46_767.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyAllsbe0HyIBf1JoCSAqj32Ww-9QZo6qMlPTnr3NcrzOMioWRdelRhsbcQZmi76JXErKRuF90ZgIQkPB7iPPyqN7AOB_oUuvHzMvOwJimTn-fif26KgijvdrkVJXjtH_DZqYTAPq7ReMK/s200/2011-12-17_08-48-46_767.jpg" width="200" /></a>Along with the salvaging we have been doing on a house that is slated to be demolished, we were able to salvage a shed. This was much more of a process than it originally looked to be. We got permission to use a fork lift to move it, but it was just too big. <br />
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We tried to strap some dunnage 4x4s onto the tines to be able to span the distance to the back wall. As you can see by the picture, the shed was way too heavy and snapped two 4x4s in half. We gave it a few weeks to think about it and came back with a plan that ultimately worked.<br />
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We were able to get some tube steel to attach to the tines that spanned all the way across. We also tied the shed onto the fork lift to keep it from rocking. <br />
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We were lucky that the shed balanced out. Finally we were able to move it out of the back yard and 6 blocks away onto our new lot. The shed will be a temporary storage while we are building.<br />
Along with making sure we didn't hit any power lines on the way there, the scariest part was that to get it out of the back yard we had to lift it over one of the houses. Luckily both houses are going to be torn down. I don't know if I would have dared trying that stunt over an occupied house. We did loose a few shingles on the yellow house.<br />
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This year for Christmas we had Sarah’s brother Joseph and
his family to give presents to. So,
following the traditions of previous years, I made them a stained glass picture
of the Bountiful Utah Temple where they were married. I wasn’t able to use much recycled glass on
this one, only the windows, but I was able to put to good use some of the wood
floor we have been salvaging to use as a frame.
The floor boards are tongue and groove.
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Another innovation this piece has on it are a couple of female ends to chain locks. I have been struggling to find a secure way to hang heavy stained glass on a wall and I hope this will finally be the solution.<br />
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I bought an LED light bar from IKEA to mount on the back. The problem is that there is n o sign at IKEA that says that when you buy an LED light strip, you have to buy a plug to go with it. So, I don’t have any pictures with the light working. In fact, I haven’t seen it work yet. We sent the plug to them after the picture was delivered and haven’t had a chance to see the whole ensemble together.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It all starts with bottle glass that I have already melted flat.</td></tr>
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Ever since people heard that I was going to make a stained glass Manti Temple they have been asking me to do a stained glass Salt Lake Temple. Well, I finally got around to doing one. My brother Danny was recently married there, so I decided that as a wedding gift I would make them one. They were married in June, but I got a new job working for Snow College which required that we all move down to little old Ephraim. This is something that we have been dreaming about ever since we left Snow College as students. Sadly we had to leave our amazing garden behind, but it will give us the opportunity to build a new home on some bigger property and put in an even more amazing garden. It also meant that there was no way that I could finish the temple in time, so it is now a Wedding/Christmas present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this piece, I was able to document the process a little better with more pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So here are a few more pictures than usual.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the dorm room the college set me up with before my family moved down. I turned it into a temporary glass shop.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here I am cutting the blue glass for the sky. You can see that using recycled bottles leaves a lot of "unusable" scrap. I manage to use most of it in other projects.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here you can see that I have started laying out the sky pieces ontop of the template. They haven't been ground yet so they still have the patern paper glued on..</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finished the sky and working on the trees. The greens are also recycled bottles.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finished up the trees and starting the temple. The gray glass had to be bought because there are no gray bottles.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I started putting the copper foil on before everything was cut out because I can watch movies and foil at the same time.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is the temple all cut out and about half foiled. I ran out of foil and had to go to Salt Lake to get more. The tan glass was also bought for the same reason as the gray.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Starting to solder. I think it looks a lot better with solder on it. The solder hides a lot of the small mistakes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finnished solderingthe front side. I have to be extreemly carefull flipping it over to solder the back side.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soldering the back side. The back ususlly goes much faster than the front because I don't have to be constantly checking that the pieces are straight. Before they are soldered together the peices like to wiggle around a little.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close up of the focal point Angel Moroni</td></tr>
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</div>Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-79218105683738811162011-08-19T12:36:00.001-06:002011-08-19T12:38:21.059-06:00Homemade “Liquid Stringer” Trials<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div closure_uid_t24lkx="314" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUm3f9MLsER3hiYdgUC995hU0Q2FDFQyOTmpyhUWcBwIjO-b28TQEVvojCcNIIbQUsUV-NpRmCRSzk4YVD93T9pfo1KgDr7U5AW2E01C-NTu96AVY7TQEKQQltxvIZiBycHqnyFwiyVzzG/s1600/2011-03-05_09-50-58_817.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUm3f9MLsER3hiYdgUC995hU0Q2FDFQyOTmpyhUWcBwIjO-b28TQEVvojCcNIIbQUsUV-NpRmCRSzk4YVD93T9pfo1KgDr7U5AW2E01C-NTu96AVY7TQEKQQltxvIZiBycHqnyFwiyVzzG/s320/2011-03-05_09-50-58_817.jpg" width="320" /></a><span id="goog_1198330789"></span><span id="goog_1198330790"></span>I found a recipe online for a homemade liquid stringer. Liquid stringer is glass powder mixed with a liquid agent that allows the glass to be squeezed out of a plastic bottle onto a sheet of glass. In my case I used Aloe Vera, the green kind used for sunburns. Mix the Aloe with powdered glass and a little water and fill squeeze bottles with the stuff. Then you can “paint” sheets of glass by squeezing out the liquid stringer. These pictures are some of the trials that we ran. I had my wife and 2 year old help me with the designs. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<div closure_uid_t24lkx="315" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7v7mSfOaau9NdZuYmlwMFvHR_YORXw9Q9EgyZR2TpI8Z6lTRGJUHqtNEJs0mDmBknQzKmgx2O-pGSHQeiM3DMmVtDmzpXJzub9E1e3JFauB6uI9Yw-ldoMKJ4H39YT0AMjVxbb59-0VSG/s1600/2011-03-05_09-51-05_612.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7v7mSfOaau9NdZuYmlwMFvHR_YORXw9Q9EgyZR2TpI8Z6lTRGJUHqtNEJs0mDmBknQzKmgx2O-pGSHQeiM3DMmVtDmzpXJzub9E1e3JFauB6uI9Yw-ldoMKJ4H39YT0AMjVxbb59-0VSG/s320/2011-03-05_09-51-05_612.jpg" width="320" /></a>They were fired to 1400F which left them the exact same shape they came out of the bottle with no slumping at all. Next time I will try 1450F to see if they will melt down a little. It does give a cool 3D effect. </div><div closure_uid_t24lkx="315" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_t24lkx="315" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd8SApZ-KS3DUQqaLaB1K2rr_F4AzIHWVYwCkxK3qT4Nh6-3dirj7o4kFLYQJVVVPM3p7k59pK2FW41OGjNPNVxqt7NURP7VCpXxO2_ESBT477ovXx5fsl4_1DD8NyBzuTXG777zolivem/s1600/2011-03-05_09-52-46_34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd8SApZ-KS3DUQqaLaB1K2rr_F4AzIHWVYwCkxK3qT4Nh6-3dirj7o4kFLYQJVVVPM3p7k59pK2FW41OGjNPNVxqt7NURP7VCpXxO2_ESBT477ovXx5fsl4_1DD8NyBzuTXG777zolivem/s320/2011-03-05_09-52-46_34.jpg" width="320" /></a>The crushed glass came as always from bottles. The colors are blue, sapphire, green, brown, dark green, and yellow green. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33_L_jaGvjbM-EUrPO9DeAOFv0O66ZYe1_9vgqSHRSwejJy0VzjvTygPQdQ9H3KROIjP17a14J1RgajPTXqddM9qiIZtk_1XNeiDTp3oCDMjL3VRGEIfPnBN4mLZZf-75USfGHJ1orYAp/s1600/2011-03-05_09-52-53_44.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh33_L_jaGvjbM-EUrPO9DeAOFv0O66ZYe1_9vgqSHRSwejJy0VzjvTygPQdQ9H3KROIjP17a14J1RgajPTXqddM9qiIZtk_1XNeiDTp3oCDMjL3VRGEIfPnBN4mLZZf-75USfGHJ1orYAp/s320/2011-03-05_09-52-53_44.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ta_31lsobh7yYnjB9mu69vX9fe_zKgum7d3nye_r5apr4EMwAXIEhxIOIiPxaP4KB8DOCM8XBQxr9I7hKy9NN6IxF1R-rhyphenhyphenfyzNGnPBgl0da0oCXg_f6zE7Wqoqsf5CbNztB0rd3doy7/s1600/2011-03-05_09-55-52_614.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" q6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ta_31lsobh7yYnjB9mu69vX9fe_zKgum7d3nye_r5apr4EMwAXIEhxIOIiPxaP4KB8DOCM8XBQxr9I7hKy9NN6IxF1R-rhyphenhyphenfyzNGnPBgl0da0oCXg_f6zE7Wqoqsf5CbNztB0rd3doy7/s320/2011-03-05_09-55-52_614.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div>Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-21990677858770680752011-08-19T12:27:00.002-06:002011-08-19T12:33:58.386-06:00Eprhraim Co-op<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div closure_uid_9vh47h="184"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div closure_uid_5ij1ki="186"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4kQjkvCg8SDy5NwKQ3B-YOgqWUIxkgC6fixhupJPSomTEF-esRm-6yAZ05xCavOLiIqZ58BwoQnO8sdFkOG4WtpVogSroFywr4j-ycsvVRtq41pjpJRrLAZPE79C-3T4aIshvm2Bf3pNK/s1600/Manti+Small.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4kQjkvCg8SDy5NwKQ3B-YOgqWUIxkgC6fixhupJPSomTEF-esRm-6yAZ05xCavOLiIqZ58BwoQnO8sdFkOG4WtpVogSroFywr4j-ycsvVRtq41pjpJRrLAZPE79C-3T4aIshvm2Bf3pNK/s320/Manti+Small.JPG" width="179" /></a>Well, I haven't posted in a while. It is not because I haven't been doing glass or gardening, but it is because We Moved! That's right, we have left our beautiful garden in the city to move to lovely little Ephraim, Utah. My wife and I met at Snow College and ever since we graduated and left, we have wanted to go back. I transferred to the University of Utah and earned a Masters Degree in Parks, Recreation and Tourism and have been running swimming pools and recreational programs for Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation for the last 8 years. But, this spring a position opened up here at Snow running the swimming pool and teaching the aquatic classes. So, we moved. We are excited to be here and love it all so far.</div></div></div><div closure_uid_9vh47h="184"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> I have always wanted to build a straw bale home, and this move will allow me to finally build one. We need to sell our home in Salt Lake before we can, but we are gearing up for it now. I have been sharpening up my knowledge of building practices especially those surrounding straw bales and am getting pretty stoked up about it all. In the mean time I have still been doing some glass work, but not so much gardening as we are just renting for now. As things progress, I will be posting as much as possible to keep everyone up to date.</div></div><div class="separator" closure_uid_9vh47h="342" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a closure_uid_51uwdk="313" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7TbeLUh-dFhdPD_gu5cbQCAj2GHpTkU8gbiCqphONA-5h9nXdUkxIYgBHg4QOFUl0v8KFp0PRKM2w7gg8pYj-22oy5yBgg1vR6SK7HIbQ6P3AsYbjEwNoz5WHBBnzHSauqA-Q5U0v_cAp/s1600/Butterfly.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; height: 177px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 252px;"><img border="0" height="179" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7TbeLUh-dFhdPD_gu5cbQCAj2GHpTkU8gbiCqphONA-5h9nXdUkxIYgBHg4QOFUl0v8KFp0PRKM2w7gg8pYj-22oy5yBgg1vR6SK7HIbQ6P3AsYbjEwNoz5WHBBnzHSauqA-Q5U0v_cAp/s320/Butterfly.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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There are a few ways stained glass gets its color. First of all normal glass is clear which is very convenient because it would be weird to look out of colored glass windows all the time. To get different colors of glass manufacturers add metal oxides to a batch of molten glass. Different metal oxides in different ratios produce the myriad of colors that you see in stained glass. These colors can range between opaque to clear, dark and light and everything in between. There are several companies out there that specialize in producing consistent colors for use in art glass. <br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjODaDRzId2E-rx4ZB2EBDWJ9_sqCe957xlL6VNrgRAZvYYt9iBkn4F1uaJp5AvHNDU7R86LgH23WNrrd6rRxdur9panJfyA3gvT-nXPt4gYBNShiYKSGVwfDhZLzo44d1m8Qzg0_AqoFMl/s1600/brown+bottle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjODaDRzId2E-rx4ZB2EBDWJ9_sqCe957xlL6VNrgRAZvYYt9iBkn4F1uaJp5AvHNDU7R86LgH23WNrrd6rRxdur9panJfyA3gvT-nXPt4gYBNShiYKSGVwfDhZLzo44d1m8Qzg0_AqoFMl/s1600/brown+bottle.jpg" /></a>This is a good time to talk about compatibility. The companies that make art glass usually try and make their glass compatible. This means that two different pieces will fuse together when heated and when they cool they will maintain a congruent, cohesive bond. Basically glass expands as it is heated and as it cools it contracts. Depending on the chemical makeup of the glass, i.e. the different metal oxides mixed in, the glass may expand and contract at different rates. If you try and fuse two pieces of glass that are not compatible, they will expand and contract at different rates and a cohesive bond will not form resulting in cracking and in extreme cases explosions. The trick here is to produce glass that is not only compatible, but also in a range of colors. The swirly colors seen in a lot of stained glass is produced in this way.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie3iUsV7ruJsefXabB9RG6zhyphenhyphenbdhuZeyxsFiYqAaLXBB9WN6JYK0Xj3zqi94xfyNob-iha16f1eV8icDmyfVWJJxjRH_XRAE3UE3PHczCczZj_xGBzPU29_vv3Eouq5gZx2bnkClE0qURU/s1600/light+green+bottle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie3iUsV7ruJsefXabB9RG6zhyphenhyphenbdhuZeyxsFiYqAaLXBB9WN6JYK0Xj3zqi94xfyNob-iha16f1eV8icDmyfVWJJxjRH_XRAE3UE3PHczCczZj_xGBzPU29_vv3Eouq5gZx2bnkClE0qURU/s1600/light+green+bottle.jpg" /></a>Bottle and window manufacturers don’t care if their glass is compatible with others, they only care if their glass finishes out structurally and visually sound. This is why people usually don’t fuse recycled glass; it just isn’t compatible. Because some of the metal oxides required to get certain colors are expensive (silver and gold for example) there are several colors that you will rarely see in “throw away” liquor bottles. Reds, yellows, oranges, and purples are rare in bottles and are usually reserved for art glass or more expensive containers and vases.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6uuRxTUXirHVmtvIrzVaab_DyasYizFUXBKFc-7KPjxHsUyOXWuJnbi53zv8yeNVrKAsPT4Jot-pbjA7gYyUHVP2yFUANoipGqWVthORswnZoHp4MN2YBDGsx_5VUCHT9ttqoTpYuDGla/s1600/bare+foot+bottle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6uuRxTUXirHVmtvIrzVaab_DyasYizFUXBKFc-7KPjxHsUyOXWuJnbi53zv8yeNVrKAsPT4Jot-pbjA7gYyUHVP2yFUANoipGqWVthORswnZoHp4MN2YBDGsx_5VUCHT9ttqoTpYuDGla/s1600/bare+foot+bottle.jpg" /></a>Another way glass is colored is by painting it with fuseable glass. If you look at stained glass in churches and see faces that look like they are painted it is because they are. Don’t be fooled into thinking that this is a cheap trick because it usually isn’t. Specially trained glass painters practice for years to learn to paint with enamels on glass. Enamels are basically powered glass. The artist will paint on the glass and then fire the glass in a kiln to fuse the enamel onto the glass. The end product truly is “stained glass” that won’t scrape off and can’t be washed off.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div></div>Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-87200689255501531612011-01-21T14:52:00.004-07:002011-01-25T12:50:18.085-07:00Christmas Presents<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">A little Late, but here are some of the projects I did for Christmas. As always, you can click on the pictures to enlarge them.<br />
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</tbody></table> These two were requests. I had made these two before and gave them to my Mother in Law who hung them up in her classroom at school. This time they were made for someone who saw them in the window and wanted me to make them one as well. Both are 100% recycled.<br />
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</tbody></table> Here is Joseph for a stained glass nativity. About 80% recycled glass and 20% reclaimed glass.<br />
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</tbody></table>I decided to use the <a href="http://foodforeveryone.org/pdf/MGC_Chpt_16.pdf">system</a> designed and perfected by <a href="http://foodforeveryone.org/index.php">Jacob Mittleider</a>. This system uses the thin walled (cheaper and less clogging) 3/4 inch PVC pipe with holes drilled in it. The holes are made with a #57 drill bit -think Heinz 57. There are three holes drilled every four inches down the pipe. The first hole is straight down and the other two are 45° on either side so that you end up with 90° of spray. The pipe is raised off the ground using 6” long pieces of 2x4 lumber. A couple of finish nails sticking up on either side of the pipe keeps it from sliding off the wood. These risers are spaced about every 4 to 5 feet down the grow bed. This will give you about 12 -16 inches of spray, so should only be used in narrow 18” wide grow beds/boxes.<br />
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The Central Utah Water Conservancy District has a <a href="http://www.cuwcd.com/rebates/">program </a>where you can receive a rebate for certain parts of an energy efficient watering system. Luckily the nice lady on the other end of the phone was familiar with the Mittleider watering system and was willing to qualify it for the rebate. This meant that I had to install a rain sensor (she later told me that I should have bought a different kind, but she let it slide). It ended up only raining once or twice after I put the sensor in anyway, but I’m sure it will be useful this year. After the rebate the whole system cost me about $225. Not too shabby for how extensive it is.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">12 valves before I put in the gravel underneath <br />
and the boxes above</td></tr>
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">At my friend’s house we put this system in and found that we could only put about 20 feet of pipe in each zone. After that the pressure died off and the end of the row wouldn’t get enough water. At my house, that ended up being overkill. I ended up putting in 12 zones, but could have probably gotten away with only putting in 8 or so. </div><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I have the timer set up to water every day, but I only run it for one minute each zone (three minutes in the hottest part of the summer). I have found that this gives the plants all the water they need. But the best thing by far about the automated watering system is that I don’t have to do anything in my garden but prune, weed, fertilize, and harvest. I can even go on vacation and not worry about it. Now that’s the kind of garden I like!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857433605098018986.post-91090188294534382332010-12-30T10:06:00.004-07:002010-12-30T18:02:29.047-07:00Mesa Temple<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd8n1yD8gfnvnSrbO-m_TS8-DGlantRpiVZA-rRq5rJ0w7V8f9IooEG9Q5ZH95ATf3F-jI5q-htW_W9H8OjrRRlzaClkdXx5BLJct_LO-cGSmhjoHtqfgwl4SgpNP1ud3tGcCB2qfSluR-/s1600/DSC_0038.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="212" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd8n1yD8gfnvnSrbO-m_TS8-DGlantRpiVZA-rRq5rJ0w7V8f9IooEG9Q5ZH95ATf3F-jI5q-htW_W9H8OjrRRlzaClkdXx5BLJct_LO-cGSmhjoHtqfgwl4SgpNP1ud3tGcCB2qfSluR-/s320/DSC_0038.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michael holding up his new Christmas present</td></tr>
</tbody></table> <div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2UCmC8Wc3ajAwmFyXYOWj3iegH22XlBfe_joohemKgnwRzP7iQNklgxX8spk3JWFdx7FeCPdvbTWyqREbZ5EQo3l6ChCHh7o7Bk5C8aMITtLEHVW7XtYK3nl13Ky5L6p4nuHK8MXmzwdl/s1600/DSC_0034.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2UCmC8Wc3ajAwmFyXYOWj3iegH22XlBfe_joohemKgnwRzP7iQNklgxX8spk3JWFdx7FeCPdvbTWyqREbZ5EQo3l6ChCHh7o7Bk5C8aMITtLEHVW7XtYK3nl13Ky5L6p4nuHK8MXmzwdl/s320/DSC_0034.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> Among the several stained glass Christmas presents I made this year was a picture of the Mesa Arizona LDS Temple. With seven siblings it can be a big hassle to get everyone a present, so we rotate who we get presents for each year. This year we had my brother Michael and his wife. They were married in October 2009 in the Mesa Temple, so I decided to make them a stained glass picture of the temple.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXqOXgi1HjQHibQ1g_gIV5iGih7aKD-eb5qQtvoeCGeGJwgvhWt_eiXb98N3sbLcueZme-RgVXna2LeD0TSi2C04BiN6q4TI_YDd5K0UeVthJh3H-Y4uiKP9AoyMbBOF2oiAnzFNCtlpaX/s1600/DSC_0036.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXqOXgi1HjQHibQ1g_gIV5iGih7aKD-eb5qQtvoeCGeGJwgvhWt_eiXb98N3sbLcueZme-RgVXna2LeD0TSi2C04BiN6q4TI_YDd5K0UeVthJh3H-Y4uiKP9AoyMbBOF2oiAnzFNCtlpaX/s320/DSC_0036.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> Almost all of the glass is recycled. The bumpy blue in the water, the bumpy green bushes and the opaque green grass are the only colors that were not recycled. The temple and the wavy royal blue in the sky is made of light sconces, the windows were made of a vase, and the rest of the colors are made of bottles.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyRhvhU2lCQTDEve-uDEjGyCJfxjLsmd7EwOTPqZ1c2VmpkUHWJim5uIUNtFDlmwR6kXAq4kx0XuizDzjVOtP3qE4wnmJf-di0WGdwRa2AQoyOLC2Kh24yGVEvqcPH15fEWXZQ3f0ZRuJW/s1600/DSC_0037.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyRhvhU2lCQTDEve-uDEjGyCJfxjLsmd7EwOTPqZ1c2VmpkUHWJim5uIUNtFDlmwR6kXAq4kx0XuizDzjVOtP3qE4wnmJf-di0WGdwRa2AQoyOLC2Kh24yGVEvqcPH15fEWXZQ3f0ZRuJW/s320/DSC_0037.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />
One thing about using recycled glass is that bottles don't produce large sheets of glass. So, large expanses need to be broken up into smaller pieces. This is why the sky and water were designed with a wavy style.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFU0sOUqko9gs723S2ynr3PQYEpvqwr6AEeYlRd4sARhE9QNUvFUcOe-RYJ5_ufsucYYbkDOp2DZMmdLdmuvsNFT0pkIkDzUnW29GbAE8n5VYbjaMtZmblk07dZGMlJKLzccTlYcJqa4sN/s1600/DSC_0035.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFU0sOUqko9gs723S2ynr3PQYEpvqwr6AEeYlRd4sARhE9QNUvFUcOe-RYJ5_ufsucYYbkDOp2DZMmdLdmuvsNFT0pkIkDzUnW29GbAE8n5VYbjaMtZmblk07dZGMlJKLzccTlYcJqa4sN/s320/DSC_0035.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>One thing that struck me when we attended the wedding was the extra warm climate. It was above 80 degrees in October. I felt like I had to incorporate the palm trees into the picture.Matt Johnson.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11184181962564451802noreply@blogger.com2