Mad Margie's Wearable Art

Margie starts with sheets of glass that she cuts, adds stringers (precut strips of glass), dichroic glass pieces or dichroic paper slides, and her fabulous sense of color.

fused glass cabachons on a plate

Then she adds the heat!

Skutt Kiln In addition to the larger bowls and plates, she has room in her kiln to fire smaller pieces with plenty of room to fill up each load with a variety of glass pieces.

She creates cabochons of glass, flat backed pieces with rounded edges that can be made into mosaic tiles, pendants, earrings, buttons and pins.

Just add the right findings or embellish with beadwork or PMC (Precious Metal Clay).

cabochons in a fused glass bowl

a lot of fused glass pendants

Here are some cabochons with pendant bails added in silver and gold filled finishes. Just add a ribbon, cord, or chain for an instant necklace!

Some cabochons she uses herself in larger work, but Margie is also a very popular supplier of these components to other jewelry artists. Laura Humenik and Sarajane Helm both enjoy using Margie’s glass as special focal additions to their artisan jewelry. Click here to see what is available is Mad Margie's own etsy store.

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fused glass cabochon

Sarajane added glass and crystal beads to entrap and embellish a large purple and dichroic central cabochon, which was first glued to Lacy's Stiff Stuff, and then embroidered.

Multiple strands of colorful beads combine to accent the colors in Margie's fused glass.

2 fused glass and PMC pendants The fiery necklace seen above was made by Laura and is available at her Etsy store.

She started with cabochons from Margie’s large and varied selection, then added LOTS of precious metal clay and silver chain, which she oxidized to get a antiqued patina.

She also used PMC with Margie's fused glass cabochons to create the pendants shown at left.