Jonathan Kelley
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  • Acting Projects
    • Monologs >
      • You Can't Handle the Truth
      • The Matrix
      • Shawshank Redemption
    • Stage >
      • Burlador de Sevilla
      • Too Many Tamales >
        • Too Many Tamales 2024
        • Too Many Tamales 2022
        • Too Many Tamales 2019
        • TMT 2016
        • TMT 2014 Conga
        • TMT 2014 Tamales Song
        • TMT 2014 Cormack monolog
      • The Bird Cage (Jaula de las Locas)
    • Film >
      • Amor en 266 Millas
      • Beauty in the Broken
      • Look No More
    • TV >
      • Better Things, S4 E5 Carbonara
    • Commercials >
      • Milk Life Tango
    • Internet >
      • Falling in Reverse, I'm not a Vampire
      • I Am Easy to Find, The National
      • Kubed Living
      • Tosh O. Vegan
      • Interview, Alas Media
  • Art Projects
    • Glass projects >
      • Pellegrino drinking glasses
      • Mosaic glass
    • Neon Art Projects >
      • Neolithic Spiral
      • Newgrange Neon Spiral
      • Neon Coconut Palm Tree
    • Coconut Frond Weaving
  • Musical Projects
    • A Fine Romance
    • Bamba
    • Begin the Beguine
    • Beyond the Sea, J and G
    • Blues Exercise, 2020
    • Christmas Music >
      • God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
      • Baby, It's Cold Outside
      • I'll Be Home for Christmas
    • Dí Porqué
    • Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
    • Early Autumn
    • Easter Parade
    • I Get Along Without You Very Well
    • I'm Just Wild About Harry
    • Jonathan's musical compositions >
      • My Los Angeles
      • Life is Like a Stage Play
      • Pretend
      • Get A Dog
      • Let's Begin
      • Leila
      • Unexpectedly
    • Jonathan sax numbers >
      • Four Brothers
      • Jonathan's Sax numbers
      • Cute
    • Let Me Call You Sweetheart
    • Let's Get Away From It All
    • Lil Darlin'
    • Lullaby of Broadway
    • Lulu's Back in Town
    • Memories are Made of This
    • Rags >
      • Bumble Boogie
      • College March Boogie Woogie Medley
      • Dill Pickles Rag
      • Joplin - Bethena
      • Joplin - Elite Syncopations
      • Joplin - The Entertainer
      • Joplin - Heliotrope Bouquet
      • Joplin - Magnetic Rag
      • Joplin - Maple Leaf Rag
      • Joplin - The Nonpareil 1907
      • Joplin - Palm Leaf Rag
      • Joplin - Peacherine Rag
      • Joplin - Pineapple Rag
      • Joplin-Solace
      • Joplin - Sycamore
      • Joplin - Wall Street Rag
    • Ragtime Cowboy Joe
    • Rhode Island is Famous for You
    • Sand in My Shoes
    • Sand in my Shoes
    • Tea For Two
    • Tzena Tzena Tzena
    • Ukulele
    • Ukulele: Puff the Magic Dragon
    • We'll Sing in the Sunshine
    • When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
    • When Joanna Loved Me
    • You're a Grand Old Flag medley
    • You're Just In Love
    • Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
  • Culinary Projects
    • Amaretti al Mascarpone
    • Coconuts >
      • Coconuts demo trailer 2015
      • Coconut Lime Soup
      • Coconut Shell Bowl
      • Coconut Cream Pie
      • Tembleque
    • Tropical Fruits >
      • How to eat a mango
      • How to eat a pomelo
    • Pies
    • Croissants
    • Watermelon Poinsettias
  • Head Shots
  • Xootr Mg Kick Scooter
  • Literary Projects
    • Senior on a Xootr Scooter
    • Timely Tips for the Home Chef
    • Counting Backwards from 100: My Life as an Anesthesiologist
    • Short Stories by Jonathan Kelley
    • Poems >
      • The Little Boy and the Old Man
      • Christ Climbed Down
      • La Niña de Guatemala
      • In Flanders Fields
    • Obituaries >
      • MKK Obituary
      • J Obituary
      • S Obituary
      • D Obituary
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In 2019, one of a matched pair of mosaic glass candle holders on our table accidentally broke.   Initially, I thought it would be easy enough to buy something similar for a replacement.  However I couldn't find what I wanted.  So I decided to craft my own mosaic glass candle holder....  it's become an absorbing sideline:  cutting wine bottles in two, either to fashion usable drinking glasses, or to craft mosaic glass candle holders by applying mosaic glass tile and grout.
The remaining mosaic glass candle holder of what had been a matched pair:
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My crafted replacement:
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The finished product (on the left).... not a bad replacement for the one that'd broken....
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Because it was difficult to find a glass into which I could put a 3"diameter candle, my curiosity was piqued to see what was involved in cutting glass bottles in two.  I started with wine bottles, and found that besides being good for candle holders, they made good drinking glasses after the sharp edges were sanded off with sandpaper...
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Add mosaic tile, grout, and I have a growing family of mosaic glass candle holders.  My favorite so far is a made from jar that once held Fantis pitted Kalamata olives.  I like it because there's a fluted section of the upper rim that looks great above the blue glass mosaic tiles.  This jar is tricky to cut, in that the best place for the scoring line is around a circumferential flare at the top of the jar... you have to get the scoring tool to create the score best at the outermost part of the bulge.  Once that's done, cutting the jar, with a splash of boiling water, then a splash of ice water, then a splash of boiling water... causes the top to drop off easily.   Sandpaper works to round off the sharp edges of the cut glass.  And while my preference for glassware for beverages is cobalt blue glass, I am enjoying drinking out of these glasses derived from green wine bottles.  It's a little like my obsession with eating breakfast out of a coconut shell bowl... it links me to the product by the labor involved in crafting the item by hand.   
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