Hello Steph, tell us something about you and “La Vie en Verre”. Where does this name come from?

Hello TA-DAAN team, pleasure to meet you. My name is Steph, I’m the creator behind la Vie En Verre, I live in New Brunswick, Canada where I make contemporary mobiles and sun catchers made of stained glass. The name la Vie En Verre is actually inspired by the song “La Vie En Rose” by Edith Piaf. “La Vie En Rose” basically means “life seen through happy lenses”, and it’s basically my mission to bring life and color into people’s lives.

Why have you decided to start stained glass?

I work part-time as a nurse. Obviously working in healthcare can be a really dark place, so when I’m in here, in my studio I’m trying to create light, to create colors that I can give back to people as much as possible because we just all need that! When I started, I really wasn’t very good at cutting glass but my boyfriend tried to help me: it turned out that he was super good at cutting glass! I learned that I just needed to accept sucking at something before I could get good. A reminder to every newbie: there’s no failure, just transformation.

What pieces of advice would you give to people interested in learning stained glass?

It’s really a fun craft to do and there’s endless possibilities.  I can suggest the following:
– Look at videos, take notes, dig deeper (there are some resources online)
– Make your own patterns: very important, you’ll get so much out of it from creating your own things from beginning to end
– Start small, if you ever want to start stained glass you’ll be tempted to buy all the glass there is because it is just so beautiful and there are many different patterns, and textures and colors, but start small because it is quite pricey and as you develop your style than you can buy more colors and glass.