Congratulations on your win, Whitney. I enjoyed seeing all of your entries in this year's festival, you do really nice work.

Great lamp, and another well deserved win. Your workmanship and glass choices are truly outstanding. Michael.

Congratulations on your first place win, Scott. Well deserved. Michael.

Congratulations on your win, Michelle. This was one of my very favorite pieces of this year's festival. Michael.

Congratulations on your well deserved win, this piece is really beautifully done, love your design and paintwork on this piece. Michael.

This lamp is beautifully done. I can see you spent a lot of time on your glass choices and selection for colors, correct shading, etc. Really nice work.

I really like your work. The colors and patterns in the glass are beautiful.

This piece is absolutely wonderful. Your work is truly exceptional and while I really like all of your entries, this piece stood out to me for it's beautiful design, choices of glass, and flawless execution. You are really great at what you do. Michael.

Thank you again, Elzi. I am pleased that you like my work. I tend to always think that I get too fussy choosing my glass or with small details in my pieces, but when I finish a window I always look at it and think to myself how I sure am glad I did this or used that glass, or that I am really glad I took the extra time and did this, or that, etc. I guess one can never be too much of a perfectionist when it comes to glass work, as it always pays off in the end result. I really enjoyed building this window, as I love rich, dark colors in glass, and this one pleased me very much. I never get tired of looking at this piece as the colors and hues change wonderfully throughout every hour of the day depending on the light. Michael.

Thank you Elzi, for the nice compliments. I spent just over 2 months building this window, with the goal of making it as realistic as possible. I too like the balance of various greens and white, with a touch of reddish brown with the vines, in person the window is very striking. My biggest challenge was getting the flower petals to look correct and have the proper shading, which is why I went with the drapery glass to make those. The glass is actually very pure white, but it is so thick that it makes it's own shading in places when light passes through it, so I used that natural shading while cutting and placing pieces in order to get the result of flowers that look as close as possible to the real moon flowers. Michael.