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community Goddess Glass Designs shades of glass she gets to work with. She purchases her glass rods from several different suppliers, all of which are located in the Portland metro area. She is often inspired to create pieces from things she sees in nature; some of her favorites are little pigs, frogs, spiders and dragonflies which she sometimes adds to her pieces. She is also often drawn to create by the area she is in or people she meets. One of her specialty pieces is a small ornament of a chainsaw. “Who wouldn’t want to see a Christmas tree decorated with little chainsaws?” she says with a laugh. The chainsaws were originally made in memory of her Vernonia friend Terry Schaumburg. “Every time I make one of those, or see one sitting on my shelf, I think about him.” Krengielski’s work is technically called lampworking and she uses borosilicate glass in most of her work. She uses a torch to heat and melt the glass so she can shape it and swirl it, using gravity or sometimes molds or a mandrel, and then adds colors or additional pieces by heating and welding glass together. Glass blowing is an SE 6, Noon-6 pm november19 2015 9 continued from front page additional technique she uses to shape and form some of her pieces. Another technique is implosion, where she can insert a glass item into a piece by heating and collapsing the glass around the item. She has many specialized tools that she keeps organized and within reach while handling the molten glass for shaping and forming or cutting grooves or indentations. She has two kilns where she can keep pieces she is working on hot until she is ready to finish them. She wears heavy duty sun glasses, sunscreen and Kevlar sleeves when working on the torch to protect her eyes, face and skin. She says she has learned that lavender oil is the best way to treat burns. The whole process is fascinating. The changes in marijuana legalization in Washington, and now Oregon this year, are opening up new markets for Krengielski’s work. She is currently working on a custom order for a new retail establishment in Portland that will feature her work exclusively. She emphasized that she only sells her paraphernalia to adults. “Things have really come around full circle as we head into 2016 with retail sales and full legalization,” says Krengielski. “About 20 years ago there was a whole movement into artistic glass with people like Jerome Baker that really changed found Vernonia several the industry. Now the flood gates have really years ago through a relationship and decided opened. Everybody is to move here with her teaching and sharing teenage son where he knowledge. People are could attend a small no longer so secretive.” O r i g i n a l l y school. “There’s some things from a small rural town about Vernonia in upstate Michigan, that reminds me of Krengielski traveled the Michigan,” she says. country after graduating “Michigan is also from college, providing woodsy and it was for herself by make known for logging at clothing and selling one time. I grew up on a her wares at music farm there. Living here concerts. She arrived in the country is just in Oregon and says she wonderful. It’s a good immediately fell in love place.” with the state. “It was just absolutely beautiful You can find Julie and I decided to stay,” Krengielski’s glass she says. She worked in a vegetarian restaurant in Portland art work at www.etsy.com/shop/ before becoming a glass art apprentice Goddessglassdesigns or contact her at where she learned her new craft. She GoddessGlassDesigns@yahoo.com. Lions Donate to Struggling Vernonia Cares Holiday Meals George Tice and Randal Harvey of the Lions Club of Vernonia, presented Vernonia Cares Food Bank Director Sandy Welch with a check for $1,000. The money will go towards helping the Food Bank purchase turkeys to be given away in December. Welch says that due to budget restrictions Vernonia Cares will only be able to supply a turkey for each Christmas meal. 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