Quite Dandy Homestead

Today I am printing these cute little hobbit inspired bird houses 🥰 I think I'm going to print a variety to hang on our fence. We have so many little birds nesting on our homestead... I'm excited to offer them a few new options for nesting!

Notice the drywall mud on my fingers?! We have also been working on the new ✨ArT sTuDiO✨ expansion today 🤫🥰 Things are coming along nicely! Stay tuned for class and workshop updates.

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-Jenni & fam

We had an eventful weekend here at Quite Dandy Homestead! We made some progress on the wall in the ✨ArT sTuDiO✨ expansion... Things are moving along nicely on that project!

We also removed some shrubbery from the backyard to make room for some fruit trees and our stock tank pool. Gotta find ways to stay cool while we tend to our property 🤣💦

I have made a 3D rendering of the ✨ArT sTuDiO✨ expansion... Im still playing around w the layout a little bit but I'll share that soon.

What did you do this weekend!? It's starting to get HOT 🥵

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-Jenni & fam

New month...
New ✨ArT sTuDiO✨ updates!

So... Spring semester 2026 has officially ended and I can announce... We are expanding the ✨ArT sTuDiO✨! It has begun!

We have been working behind the scenes to expand the Quite Dandy Homestead ✨ArT sTuDiO✨. With this expansion we will be able to host workshops & classes more often right here at our homestead. This will include more semeter-long homeschool art courses as well as single-day "make & take" workshops.

I will post more of our progress as the work continues but I wanted to let you all know... It's happening!

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-Jenni & fam

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One of the conversations about the issues with AI and stained glass patterns specifically is

"Oh but that AI pattern worked for me"
Yes, but at what cost was that to someone else?

Example below:
1: I asked it to generate a pattern
It produced an entirely non workable pattern

2: I fed it my design as the prompt
It still produced a pretty bad pattern in terms of practicality, but notice the cuts, especially around the lotus area.

It went from entirely unworkable cuts to mimicking my pattern, making the cuts workable.

AI does not understand the perimeters of stained glass.

It doesn't understand the point of the off lines, they view them closer to a stylised mosiac. Pointless and for the aesthetic of it being told it's stained glass.

If you bought a workable AI pattern, for that pattern to be workable, it was fed someone else's work directly.

If you can find the original creator, buy from them.
If that isn't available, just save the image and trace it.

(This is my own moral stance and yours may vary, but you can't mass produce stained glass as a home hobbyist who might sell some Suncatchers at a market 🤷)

Do not financially support theft directly to the thief.
(Aka Etsy AI pattern sellers with 5k plus sales in 2 months)

It hurts what is already a dying craft, we all know that stained glass isn't a money maker for the vast majority of us, but funding the AI Etsy pattern sellers hurts real makers even more by taking away what little revenue there is to be had.

So here's your reminder that the following popular Etsy shops are Al:
BoboCreations
BloomVector
ASNPATTERNS
WalnutCoffee
LustraGlass

PeppyFoxs list of Etsy shops she's researched and confirms as Al:

BLACKARTVN
CraftedByAwais
Greenland
EcomCrafts
TheHope Anthology
Punshopvn
TrueGlass Patrern (lololol)
ArtnesiaGalery
QGCraftsPakistan
Stained Glass Digitone
OctoLineArt
GlassPatternLab
GlowGlass Patterns
BunnyBytes
Glass NovaStudio
AlexArtHub
CraftedKnit

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Oh hey, it's my ✨ArT sTuDiO✨

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-Jenni & fam

That's a wrap for the spring 2026 ✨ArT sTuDiO✨ courses! Today was the dinal class dor "Intro to Art Glass Mosaics" & "Intro to Mixed Media".

Thank you to all of my students and their parents for making this semester fun and effortless. Stay tuned for upcoming classesin my ✨ArT sTuDiO✨.

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-Jenni & fam

This week is the end of spring semester for our homeschool co-op and my ✨ArT sTuDiO✨ courses!

Yesterday was the last day for my Indiana History class "Gas & Glass BOOM!". We had a fun semester and learned a lot about how the gas boom helped and hurt IN and glass history. Very interesting subject, I'd love to offer that class again soon in my art studio. Perhaps with more hands-on glass experiences. Stay tuned.

Today was the last day in my ✨ArT sTuDiO✨ for the "Intro to Stained Glass" course. We covered SO MUCH information in our 8 weeks together; stained glass basics like cutting, grinding, foiling, soldering, cleaning, polishing, pricing... So, so much info. I'm really proud of my student's progress! I am inspired to offer an "Advanced Stained Glass" course in the fall. Keep your eyes open 👀

Tomorrow we will be finishing "Intro to Glass Mosaics" and "Intro to Mixed Media" in my ✨ArT sTuDiO✨. I can't wait to see their final projects all wrapped-up!

Is there any interest on a specific subject for summer ✨ArT sTuDiO✨ courses?

What are your students excited to learn about in the fall?

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-Jenni & fam

This was 3 years ago!

Back then, I was making a lot of stained glass terrariums for upcoming spring events and this multi-media piece. The TV w/ stained glass panel is now finished and is being used as an ambient lamp in my ✨ArT sTuDiO✨.

Time flies!

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-Jenni & fam