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There are many hobbies out there. All bidding for your time. Most are summer hobbies, so what do you do in the winter when it's wet, cold and snowing? What about when stress is at it's peak and you need to find a way to release it, what do you do then? Part of the challenge with starting a new hobby is the fear of doing it wrong. Children don't have that hang-up, they just go on and do it. Adults are the ones that teach them, that they are no good, or lousy or bad at something, children don't know it, the learn it. The next question then is are you willing to unlearn it? Are you willing to considers starting something new, that you don't need to worry about doing it right or wrong, but just doing it? consider that you can put a pile of glass together and melt it really really hot and it form a new masterpiece. It could happen you know.

Glass fusion may just be the right pick for you. It only requires, heat, glass and your imagination. Yes, there are a few tools, most of which you probably have around the house, but all in all you don't need to have thousands of dollars worth of supplies. You just need your mind and a willingness to try something new. The hang-up that you might do it wrong doesn't exist, because you can't do it wrong. Consider it to be a giant experiment, to see what happens when you layer glass, or how close you can put pieces of glass to an edge and it melt together. Or what would happen if you layered glass and when it melted, it fused and what then? Did it do something unexpected? Did you like it or not? Just because you don't like the way something turns out doesn't mean someone else isn't going to love it! Remember, you can't fail with glass art. You can only not do it!

What is glass art, more exact, what is glass fusing? Well, in Wikipeida it's explained this way: Glass fusing is the technique used to join glass pieces together by partly melting the glass using high temperatures. The heating is commonly undertaken in an electric kiln. Instead of fitting glass together using a lead solder, two or more pieces of glass are laid on top of or overlapped on each other and are fired at temperatures ranging from 1100 to 1600 degrees Fahrenheit (750 to 850 degrees Celsius). It is important to realize that glasses with different coefficients of expansion cannot be fused together - upon cooling or after a certain period of time, the fused piece will crack. Many people who work in glass fusing restrict themselves to one brand of glass (e.g. Bullseye, Uroborus, Baoli) which is guaranteed to be compatible with any other glass from the range of fusible glass offered by that particular maker.