Home At Last! with Patty Gironda

Artist-Bruce Cook "Cooked Glass" Travels Abroad German Glass Glass Kisses One of the joys of owning our 99-year old home is filling the built-in cabinets with displays of my collected pretties. You can see from the photos that I adore blown glass and fused glass. My latest acquisition is from glass artist Bruce Cook of "Cooked Glass".  Pretty fused glass tiles that are so nice to touch and stunning in their glass vessel.  Bruce was a new vendor at this past Market Days in downtown Newnan.  

  As many of you may have noticed I'm not cooking very much these days. (We aren't eating too well, either.) Renovations of our wonderful old house keep us busy-when we aren't producing or editing for television. Nearing the end of our stewardship of this fabulous house, we are in the final renovations . . .updating bathrooms-adding much needed storage and general re-decoration. One of the hidden pleasures of all this hard work is stumbling upon keepsakes from our travels abroad. This hand-painted champagne flute is a perfect example of a great summer vacation spent along the Rhine River in Germany. After discovering UNTours on Oprah we rented a roomy apartment in Baccarach, Germany. I think we rented our apartment for two weeks-giving us plenty of time to explore, relax and enjoy local history. We attended a summer festival along the Rhine in Bopart, sipped local wines at a 400-year old winery in nearby Cologne and drifted quietly along the Rhine River-experiencing the...