It's getting up past 90 degrees out there today, and I love the heat! It reminds me of the south, which I love and where I fully intend to live one day.
Last year in May my family went to Tennessee, a beautiful place that stuck with me. This new window is inspired by my southern love! It's a copperhead snake with cicada wings embedded in an old metal screen I found in the basement. There's all sorts of inspiring stuff down there!
Here's a pic of the soldering process: because there are so many tiny pieces I used some junky sewing pins to hold it all together during the initial soldering process.
After soldering, up against the window.
This is where I started to get into unknown territory. Putting the glass piece within a metal screen. First, I cut the shape out.
Then attempted to solder...this used up the rest of my roll. The tricky part was folding the copper foil over the edges of the cut screen. Well, that and the soldering itself...
The window frame is about 26 inches long and maybe 8 inches wide- I'm just guessing here though.
What I've done so far, in the light. I ran out of solder on the second side. I've gone through two pounds in two weeks...I ordered 5 lbs of 50/50 tin/lead solder off of ebay-should arrive by the end of the week. Hopefully that will last me a little while longer. This is all very experimental - hopefully once it's all put together it will stay together!
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