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Jayne Crowley is a self-taught stained glass artist who has built herself a lively business in Branford, CT. Starting with only books and personal experimentation, Crowley has developed her hobby into a 30+ year career. Her company is called ArtGlass Designs, LLC, and she shares a space with another company called Bittersweet Glassworks LLC. She creates a variety of glass objects including plates, cups, ornaments, golf putters, clocks and ceremonial tribal masks, various windows, glass doors and cabinets. She's also done some work restoring windows for nearby churches, on which she offers the following insights:

"With a lot of the churches now, you're starting to find that the lead is deteriorating," she said. "So you have to take the window completely apart and then reassemble it with new lead. When your doing that, you want to make sure you try to use all the original glass. You want to keep as much of the integrity of the original window as you possibly can."

Her example should definitely serve as an inspiration to amateur stained glass artists everywhere.