made from fine crystal and glass rod colors from all over the world.

Kim Maul is a professional musician turned Glassblower.

She has learned glassblowing from her husband David G. Maul,

a Master Scientific Glassblower . Kim has been making Christmas ornaments

for 17 years experimenting with design and color and quality. Glassblowing,

she has learned, is a lot like music,: both require practice, practice, practice!

     Kim's ornaments are considered Lamp-Working, done with a torch or crossfires,

made from lead crystal and Pyrex tubing. Working with hand pulled colors .

These colored rods are used to decorate the surface of the hot glass, then the piece

is blown into an ornament. Lamp-Working is a glass blowing technique that dates

 back to the 16th century, when heat for softening glass rods was developed by

blowing air through the flame of a wick lamp.

     Today Glass Artists use jet burner or cross-fire torches to do lamp-working.

 Hope Glass Works offers a good selection of styles and shapes and colors.

Each piece is signed by the artist and are a fine crafted origional.

Glass implements almost every facet of science and technology:

It lights our dwelling place, our way, and our artistic future.

Grant and Kim live in Mid-Michigan, with their two sons, Robert and Tyler.