For several years we’ve been collecting work from the Glass Eye Studio here in Washington. Each is its own one-of-a-kind piece of glass art. The pieces we’ve collected over the years have a celestial theme which reflects my husbands interest in astronomy. All of their glass contains Mt. St. Helens ash, and since I was born just days after the eruption in 1980, that detail just makes them extra special to me. I haven’t had any time “for me” so I took a brief time-out the other day and worked on this personal project. I wanted to try figure out a way to capture the vivid colors and unique detail in each of the spheres  so that I may share them here with you. It took a bit of trial and error, but I finally achieved the effect I was after.