The Glass Tower happened serendipitously when Gerry Faulkner found herself creating art while cleaning out a storage room. While stacking extraneous crystal, she suddenly realized that she had created something beautiful. She searched for an adhesive that would keep those throwaway pieces together in her garden and found that marine glue worked with glasses and would withstand the elements. She started adding shells, pearls, whatever inspiration led her to include within those antique and flea market finds. When her best friend Ellen Carmichael came to visit and saw what Gerry had created, she joined in, inspired to create herself. When Ellen ventured forth and got them invited to participate in an art show in Pensacola, they were suddenly recognized as artists!
Tower with Fern
Gerry and Ellen, Dothan natives, came to the November 2011 meeting of the Cherokee Garden Club at the Dothan Country Club at the invitation of Gerry's mother, Doris Faulkner. Here they prepare for their Power Point demonstration of how their business came into being.

Doris Faulker, Gerry's mother tells Malinda Williams and Betty Wiggins how the beautiful glass pieces came to be. Agnes Simpson, Rosa Thomas, Dottie Joes and Kitsy Burns admire the centerpiece.

Cherokee Garden Club
The varety of combinations of different glass pieces make for a colorful selection with opportunities for individualization, rather like a shadow box for different heirlooms. From plant stands to bird baths, cake stands and tea stands, these ladies demonstrate the endless possibilities for imaginative recycling for glass once relegated to the back of the cabinet.

My favorite was this exquisite selection of various blue pieces on the center of the table where Gerry's sister Gayle visited with Martha Cooper, Malinda Williams, Marie Stone and Linda Griffin.

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