Ohhh... look at the colors!

Water Prisms...

Several years ago, Shelley and I went on a camping vacation and ended up in Santa Fe, NM.  Neat town and very artsy-fartsy.  There was an arts and crafts fair going on with some pretty neat stuff for sale.

We were attracted to a booth that had many brilliant rainbows going on... real rainbows.  That's when we discovered these water prisms.  The interesting couple manning the booth made them for a living.   In fact, I was happy to find that they still make them... here.  They turned out to be very friendly and we enjoyed shooting the breeze with them.  We also came home with a water prism.

I was sitting in the living room last night watching one of those rainbows on our white fireplace and reminiscing about the Santa Fe trip.  Great memories.  It was a fun trip.

The water prisms fascinated me, so I decided to try my hand at making one.  I had done a couple small stained glass pieces, but the challenge with the prism was creating a three-dimensional shape and then making it water-tight.

I even got to use my math and geometry skills to figure out how to cut the glass.  It actually worked!  Both of our water prisms are hanging in the kitchen window and on sunny days we're rewarded with multiple rainbows around the house.

I may have to make another one soon! 

P.S.  Ann... Bill says to put the credit card away!  But what does HE know?  Go for it!