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    This is a fused glass plate I made last week. One of the things I love about working with fused glass is that mistakes are expected and can be reused. The multicolor glass once was a vase that went horribly wrong in the kiln. It was a big puddly vase. When I tried to even it up with my grinder, it broke, so I put the remains in a plastic bag. I had cut out some green discs and smoothed them out. I came across the failed broken vase when I was cleaning off my work space. I also found some glass disc I had made. An idea came to me. I put my favorite broken pieces on the disc. I cranked up my kiln to full fuse for twelve hours. That night I peeked inside and this is what it had become. Sometimes when I open my kiln, the results just feel like magic. Sometimes it''s amazing when a mistake or failure leads to something good.