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Japanese Glass Wind Chimes – Bring Peace and Serenity To Your Garden
Wind chimes have been in existence for over 5000 years. They are one of the world’s oldest musical instruments and are known world-wide today to help sooth and calm people by their sweet and melodic sounds.
Japanese glass wind chimes, or simply glass wind chimes began appearing in about 1000 BC along the Mediterranean. Shortly thereafter, it was often seen in Far Eastern temples as a method to ward off evil demons and spirits. Today, Japanese glass wind chimes are used for garden and yard decoration as well as indoors near windows or where a breeze will “catch” it as well as on patios, decks and entryways of many homes.
Feng Shui uses Japanese glass wind chimes (as well as those made of other materials) to aid in organizing and directing the travel of energy through a space in order to provide the best possible flow of positive energy around you. But Feng Shui is only one use of wind chimes and there are many, many more.
In our far, far past, wind chimes were used as a type of scarecrow in gardens to alarm small pest animals like rabbits and raccoons. Many backyard gardeners still do this today and Japanese glass wind chimes are the perfect choice for this use. Not only are they often beautiful pieces of art, they DO help keep those pesky rabbits out of your baby lettuce leaves!
Of course we can’t ignore the most time honored reason for Japanese glass wind chimes and that is the sense of peace and tranquility that they bring to us. After coming home from a long and hard day at work, there is nothing quite so soothing as sitting in the garden or on the deck and letting the melodies of a wind chime help to relax your mind, body and soul.
Japanese glass wind chimes can have a healing effect on both the mind and the body. The sounds of the wind chimes are thought to release stress and emotional blockage and calm the mind. Wind chimes can reduce anger and tension and promote a sense of well-being. It is also believed that wind chimes can bring a sense of harmony and balance to ones garden and home.
From warding off evil spirits to providing a calm and soothing background noise in a garden, the Japanese glass wind chime has been with us for a long time and will continue to bring a sense of peace and balance to us all.
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Lighthouse Stained Glass Wind Chimes Copper/Metal Garden Art Sculpture Windchime $23.99 |
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Welcome Hummingbird Wind Chime with Art Glass and Beads $11.87 |
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Welcome Hummingbird Wind Chime with Art Glass and Beads $12.95 |
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Small Recycled Beach Glass Wind Chime “One of a Kind!” Stained Glass Sun Catcher $25.99 |
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Multi Colored Recycled Beach Glass Wind Chime “One of a Kind!” Stained Glass $39.99 |
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Stained Glass Windchime…Trinity Celtic Knot $25.00 |
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Stain Glass Hummingbird Sun Catcher Spinner WindChime $9.99 |
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Sun Stained Glass Wind Chimes Copper/Metal Garden Art Sculpture Windchime Amber $36.99 |
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Glass Wind Chime Plaque Friend Christmas Friendship NIP $12.91 |
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Rainbow Hummingbird Gypsy Bells Glass Wind Chimes Handmade Garden Art Decor $22.99 |
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Red Carpet Studios Slow Black Rotating Motor $7.99 Get the party started with this revolving motorized ornament holder. It can hold a disco ball, or your favorite wind spinner or suncatcher. Use it for mirrored, glass or crystal items and enjoy the show as they spin and reflect the light. Measures approximately 8″ long |
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Beautiful Kassel 15 Day Wood Wall Pendulum Clock with Glass Front $70.88 This traditional 15 day clock features beautifully crafted wood, decorative glass front which reveals the face and swinging pendulum. Chimes the hour and once on the half hour. Measures 10-3/4″ x 23″ x 5-1/4″. Limited one year warranty… |
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Woodstock Amazing Grace Chime The sweet sound of America’s most treasured and well-recognized tune is represented in this Amazing Grace Chime. The wind catcher is a brilliantly colored stained-glass cross. This delightful chime is sure to set an inspiring mood. Length: 28 inches…. |
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Orlando Jacinto Garcia: Illuminated Shadows $15.99 … |
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30mm Crystal Ball Prisms 701-30 $0.01 Hung in windows, crystals can bring chi energy from the outside into dark areas of your home or office.A crystal placed in the south-east, north-west, or center of a room can aid in stimulating prosperity. Only the finest quality lead crystal is used which makes them the most valued type of crystal. Each is made with a hole for attaching to projects, or for hanging in your window.They make great … |
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Antique Gold Bell With Stake 4asstd Iron Dimensions 5 1/4 X 5 1/4 X 34 Set Of 4 $97.99 Product Summary: Outdoor Garden…. |
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Royce Lighting Battery Operated LED Wind Chime with Crackle Glass Globe, Wind Catcher Stainless Steel A beautiful decoration designed to be displayed outdoors. Royce Lighting’s battery operated wind chime with 3 color (red/green/blue) changing LED lights and on/off switch. The crackle glass globe and wind catcher stainless steel with oil rubbed bronze finish is sure to brighten your yard or patio. Wind chimes not only provide music for your ears, they provide a feast for the eyes with the multi-co… |
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Metal Home Décor Rustic Balloons Set of 3 Flower Tubes Glass Collection $45.99 These pieces are genuinely handmade. Each piece is meticulously crafted by hand. They are hand cut and painted by hand to give each item its own uniqueness. The final product is also assembled manually and each item can take an hour or more to complete…. |
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4M Make a Windchime Kit each $8.75 Everyone loves wind chimes and now you can make your very own. Fun to paint and easy to assemble.Kit includes two terra cotta pots, paints, brush, chime rods and lines, hanging cord and complete instructions…. |
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Red Carpet Studios White Rotating Motor $8.63 It’s Party Time ! Get the party started with this revolving motorized ornament holder. It can hold a disco ball, or your favorite wind spinner or suncatcher. Use it for mirrored, glass or crystal items and enjoy the show as they spin and reflect the light. Measures approximately 8″ long |
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Wind Chimes $4.95 Stained glass windchimes look as good as they sound. Decorate your front porch or patio with a custom windchime. Or create a thoughtful and practical gift. Use these windchimes to turn any stained glass suncatcher into a windchime. Additional image below shows crystal teardrop measuring ½ wide x1-1/2 long Delphi Tip Add a windchime to an iron ring (see project below). |
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Wind Chimes Bottle Art Kit $5.95 Turn old bottles from trash to treasure. Create colorful trendy upcycled wind chimes with this fun and easy to use project kit. Includes instructions and supplies for one project, just add your favorite bottle cutter (sold separately). |
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Natural Chimes $16.95 Create fused glass wind chimes using the instructions and patterns in this imaginative book. Includes details on everything you need to create your own riot of sound, color and fun supplies, pattern making, fusing, and hanging. Step-by-step directions, instructional photos and diagrams, and beautiful full-color photography of finished projects. Patterns include frog, butterfly, sunflower, whale, fish, rainbow, pansies, sunface, tropical sunset and heart. CKE Publications. 28 pages. Images below from book. Projects by artist and author Jan Schrader. |
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Audubon Window Glass Hook For Feeders and Wind Chimes $6.9 The Audubon Plastic Window Glass Hanger/Hook can hold up to 4 pounds. It is great for small feeders, hummingbird feeders, and wind chimes. It is perfect for entertaining your family or pets at any window.Size: 2.5 x 7.25 x 11.5 |
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Chimes For All Seasons $17.95 Decorate For Any Season This imaginative book contains everything you need to create beautiful and fun windchimes for any occasion. Detailed step-by-step instructions are provided for all projects ranging from Hummingbirds and frogs to Jack O and 39;Lanterns and Reindeer Sleighs. Other patterns included are Easter bunnies, New Year and 39;s hats and champagne flutes, Valentine hearts, autumn leaves and even ribbons of remembrance. Most chimes in the book are easy enough to make in an afternoon and can fit in a table top kiln making them great for beginning fusers and beginning stained glass crafters. All patterns can be either fused or copper foiled and most are pictured in both techniques. Make fabulous decorations while discovering the magic of the beautiful sounds created. Includes 17 full-size patterns . Images below from book by artist and author Linda Russell Whitcomb. |
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The Chimes $12.36 Here are not many people — and as it is desirable that a story-teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to young people nor to little people, but extend it to all conditions of people: little and big, young and old: yet growing up, or already growing down again — there are not, I say, many people who would care to sleep in a church. I don’t mean at sermon-time in warm weather (when the thing has actually been done, once or twice), but in the night, and alone. A great multitude of persons will be violently astonished, I know, by this position, in the broad bold Day. But it applies to Night. It must be argued by night, and I will undertake to maintain it successfully on any gusty winter’s night appointed for the purpose, with any one opponent chosen from the rest, who will meet me singly in an old churchyard, before an old church-door; and will previously empower me to lock him in, if needful to his satisfaction, until morning. For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors . . . |
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Metal Wind Chimes Hanging Outside $24.99 Fraser Hall Metal Wind Chimes Hanging Outside – Photographic Print |
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Sounds of Earth: Wind Chimes, Vol. 1 $11.88 Sounds of Earth: Wind Chimes, Vol. 1 |
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Wind Chimes and Whirligigs by Schwarz, Renee Edition ILL, 0 $14.99 Wind Chimes and Whirligigs by Schwarz, Renee |
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Bottle Art $8.95 Reuse and Recycle Using glass bottles in your art beautifies the planet, your home, your work spaces and you. Includes 61 creative projects. Call your family and friends to the table with a cheery jingle of a bell chime. Serve drinks in unique glassware. Make a chalkboard bottle to describe the menu as your guests marvel at stylish painted glass centerpieces and sumptuous tableware. Other projects include bottle wind chimes, candlelight sets, and dazzling glass jewelry set. |
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Wind chimes, ‘Moon and Stars’ $73.99 Moons and stars chime energizing melodies when caressed by the wind. Inspired by Feng Shui principles, the wind chimes are crafted by hand. From Guena, they are carved from dyed agate and are suspended from a pinewood hoop that hangs from a nickel-plated ring. |
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Glass Patterns Quarterly Magazine Winter 2011 $5.95 Perfect For Every Skill Level Each issue of Glass Patterns Quarterly has over a dozen full-size patterns, materials listings, glass color suggestions, and color photos of completed projects. Using the full color step-by-step instructions you can create projects in many types of glass art, from stained glass to mosaics to fusing and flameworking. With the pattern pull-outs, variety of projects and wealth of information, each issue is an excellent value. Winter 2011 Patterns and Projects Include GPQ Winter 2011 Gallery Showcasing the Designs of Ten Outstanding Artists and Hobbyists A collection of unique ideas for glass Letter from the Editor by Maureen James Happy Holidays from Our Hearts to Yours Beveled Snowflakes – An Introduction to Stained Glass Designed by Alyssa Phiel Arranging various shapes of foil-wrapped bevels to create snowflake designs Tericks of the Trade – Using Fluxed Solder Wire to Avoid Shifting Glass by Joseph Godek Tips for fluxing solder wire rather than the project itself Edwardian Vase Design by Kevin Paned Expressions Studios A geometric-and-floral panel Shadow Art Snowman Lamp Design by Mark Jennings A stained glass lamp shade featuring decorative soldering techniques Grape Cluster Design by Terra Parma A 16 x 20 still life panel with double geometric border and center hanging grape cluster Expanding Projects with Borders Design by Frank Floyd Techniques for increasing the size of stained glass projects by adding borders Illusions – A Three Dimensional Dichroic and Bevel Suncatcher Design by Lidia K. Anderson A suncatcher formed by joining squares of reeded dichroic strips and bevels Dove Design by Marianne Crivellaro A 8 x 10 open-spaced panel featuring a Christmas Dove and mistletoe Panel Repair by Jim Ellerman Techniques for replacing broken glass pieces in finished stained glass panels 16-Page Full-Size Pattern Section Strip Tease – The Glass Strip Challenge Design by Petra Kaiser Using simple glass cuts to create fused wind chimes, pendants, and a clock face Elegant Cubbies Design by Mark Waterbury and Richard Schneider A key or spice cabinet kit with 12 x 12 stained glass fleur-de-lis panel insert The Kiln Corner – Converting Minutes to Rate per Hour by Arnold Howard Formulas for converting kiln schedules and programming in tenths of a degree Coasting throught 2011 Design by Ruth L. Dobbins, Damian Romero, Troy Weseman Techniques for creating 4 x 4 etched coaster tiles using photo resist Winter Tree Design by Saulius Jankauskas A set of 6 x 8 copper sheet panel created with float glass frit and glass paints Auto Embossing Design by Boyce Lundstrom A 8 x 8 copper sheet panel created using a car tire to impress designs from found objects Also check this issue for favorite regular features on New Products, New Books and Patterns, What and 39;s Hot, Industry News, and full-size patterns available only from GPQ. Projects in the additional images are from this issue of the magazine, featuring the art of |