Fired Up Glassworks offers beauty and utility

Valerie Vinson, creator of Fired Up Glassworks, greets customers at the Graffiti Coffee Shop Craft Fair Saturday, April 2. Anza Valley Outlook/Diane Sieker photo
Valerie Vinson has nurtured a creative vision and the journey has been colorful, vibrant and wonderfully unique.Owner of Fired Up Glassworks, Vinson discovered the fused glass technique to create objects both beautiful and useful.“About four years ago, I was planning to get back into making pottery and googled a local source for clay and glaze. I ran across a pottery supply site that also offered fused glass supplies. I was intrigued,” she said.A little more research revealed the availability of a small kiln that was put in the microwave to melt glass. From this tiny unit, Vinson soon graduated to a larger electric kiln for pendants and small Christmas ornaments.“I started doing craft fairs and some
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