(pleasant music) - I think my favorite thing is the colors.

You know, and I love nature, you know, the seashells with the spirals and the spines and all of that.

The art of nature I think is very enjoyable and I spend a lot of my time trying to depict that using stained glass.

(glass clinking) I think there's nothing better than creating, you're using your mind and your motor skills and all your physical abilities, and you get such satisfaction when you finish up a panel and you hang it in your window and you're so proud, you know, of what you've created.

I used to have a partner who started the business, Nel Bernard, and the two of us upgraded to purchasing this church back in 2000, and that is now the new home for Maine Art Glass.

This was a Slovakian church, and this is where all my hobbies have kind of settled into.

But I'm basically a full-time stained glass artist now.

I create stained glass windows.

I teach classes.

We've got the rondels that we have in the four corners.

There are some faceted pink jewels.

He wanted a oval in the center with clear glass, but what they call German new antique glass, which has got the little striations in it.

It's very beautiful glass.

So this is a transom window.

The big, they call it an eyebrow window.

It goes up over a set of double doors.

The pieces are cut first, then ground to shape.

I have patterns that we work with, and then we wrap every single piece of glass with copper foil tape.

But once you've got all your pieces assembled back together into the pattern and where you want all the pieces, carefully adjusting 'em so they're not out of place because we're locking 'em in at this point, and it's gonna be permanent from here on out.

(metal crackling) I want a nice rounded bead.

You can't sorter glass, you can only sorter metal.

So you have to have the edge wrapped in the copper foil.

So that's what enables you to sorter the whole project together.

There's a lot of people that just come over for the socialization.

No, they all come to make things, but it becomes, it's quite a community, you know, it goes up here.

So every piece individually needs to fit, you know, coming up with the right design, the colors and glass and all that, that's usually what takes the longest part of it.

- There is hope for me yet.

- There is still hope.

This is her very first project.

So now we've got this piece that will go right in there.

I think there's nothing any healthier than being able to craft things, to create things yourself.

Whether it's, you know, quilting, knitting, drawing, painting, furniture, carpentry, and if you're a hiker or anything where you're actively participating in something, that's important.

Doing crafts, so you're focusing, you're fine tuning motor skills.

You're learning an awful lot of different things.

I have no intention of retiring.

I love what I do.

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