ring in the birthday celebrations!

my 22nd birthday is this wednesday (yay!) and we started the celebration this weekend.

i saw a Chihuly art exhibit as a young baby girl when it came to Salt Lake years ago.

ever since then i decided i needed to go to a glass blowing factory. bucket list!!!

 last month i found out that there was a glass blowing factory / studio in Alpine.

 i knew i would use my birthday card and use it for a roomie outing to make glass art.

(that is the best part of having a birthday- picking something and everyone having to do it. not only doing it but having to pretend they like it.)

we got to the studio and got a tutorial on how we were going to make glass flowers. 

 this is us being taught how to make glass flowers and being wowed. 

so first you pick 2 colors of crushed glass - a color for the stems and a color for the petals. 

the guy starts off by dipping a pole in a pot of molten glass and then rolls the bulb of liquid glass in the crushed up colored glass. then back in the fire it goes to mix in the color.

then he brings it over to you and you make the flower!

 megan went first and she chose green & ivory

miriam picked blue and gold 

so excited! 

hannah did white and orange 

first you have to made one end flat like a plate

then you get big pliers and start pulling out tiny petals
(i did light aqua blue for my petals)

then you keep going and pulling bigger and bigger petals. 

to make the stem you then pull the other end and roll it, cut it and there you go. 

here is our awesome instructor 

for lunch we hit up Mountainwest Burrito, 

i had never been there before and was happy to finally try it:

needless to say i got a giant chicken chimichanga to ring in my birthday celebrations!