Stained Glass Fantasy Collection reopens today at 4pm EST!
ABJ Glassworks Fantasy Collection reopens Sunday, June 15th 4pm EST
A very quick message to let you know that as of TODAY, Sunday June 15th, at 4pm EST my Fantasy Inspired Collection is available to order from again! This is my first Fantasy opening for two months, and I’m so happy to be back. As usual, this will not include my larger sword designs, but everything else will be available.
For those who follow me on Instagram, you will already know why I have been MIA with my glass the past few months, but for those who missed it, here’s a little explainer:
Since the beginning of February, but most intensely from the middle of March through mid-May, I was a part of a grassroots community group working to get our local school district referendum passed in the primary election this past May - and miraculously, against the odds, we did it!
Only 2 out of 18 since 2006 had ever been passed in PA, and unbelievably now we just passed the 3rd, which is also the largest in PA history with a bond of $285 million. With 40% voter turnout (about 17.7k people) we passed it with 385 votes. Over the past few months I had taken on more and more, because apparently I have no chill and the fixation was real. But we did it, and since then I’ve processing the whole experience while also working on fulfilling all my open glass orders so that I would feel ready to open my shop again.
I don’t know how long it will take to truly process what we did. I’m so proud to have been a part of this driven group of people, in the core of our Vote Yes to Invest group. I’ll be forever changed.
And now I am back to full-time glass work! I am hard at work finishing up my existing open orders, and I will have much more regular shop openings from now on - along with those stained glass swords I have been promising for months! Thank you for sticking with me through this most unexpected adventure. As Gandalf would say, “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us” - and I would not take back the past 4 months for all the gold in Erebor.
I don’t yet have set dates for my upcoming releases, but they will include a new preorder for my Shards of the Blade, and the very belated Snowdrops Collection and Knights Collection. You’ve all been so patiently waiting for those- and they are so close to being ready!
As always, you can get peeks of what I’m currently working on, as well as information on releases, over on Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky, and my Patreon!
Have a wonderful week and thanks as always for your support and immense patience with me this year! Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have about upcoming releases.
Sending you all my very best wishes, Ashley