light made solid

Mother Earth News has an excellent article by Jo Frohbieter Mueller on how to get started in doing amateur stained glass work. Mueller goes through all the basics of what you need to buy in materials to get started. And she has lots of good suggestions for books and other things to help you along your path. There's also some good inspiration in this piece for new artists, as she talks about how her and her husband working together on glass have started to make a decent profit doing it. Definitely worth reading.