Favorite Thing No. 12b

One of my favorite things is placing colored glass in windows in place of curtains.
In each of my kitchen windows there are bottles, plates or other glass items
resting along the sills or suspended from fishing line, catching and reflecting the light.

 

There is green and amber glass in the window over the sink.

Cobalt blue and red glass fills the ledge of the window over the small built-in desk,

with pale green and amethyst glass along the upper window legde. 

And soft honey-yellow glass fills the window that overlooks my garden patio.  

On the stairwell, there is a reproduction "Tiffany" panel that nearly fills the window,

as well as several pieces of amber glass. And so it is throughout the cottage:

A disk of stained glass, depicting a Monet painting, in the downstairs powder room,

as well as a fragment of stained glass from a dismantled church window,

and several vintage cobalt medicine jars.

An oval disk of a Tiffany waterfall in the upstairs hallway window,

with hobnail blue glass along the ledge.

 

 And a series of crystal chandelier prisms in the upstairs bathroom,

refracting the sunlight into a quivering dance of rainbows on the walls.

I love watching the colorful glass filter sunlight by day,

or the glow of streetlamps and full moons by night.

On the bedroom windows there are bamboo shades and light voile panels, for privacy.

But wherever I can, I love filling windows with colored glass.

Look out the window at Claudia's FAVORITE THINGS...