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Glass blowing or glass painting? Why not both?

There are 17 newcomers in downtown Grand Junction. There’s “A Force To Be Reckoned With” and “The March Hare,” “Split Infinitive” and “Stargate Rondo.”

As an avid gardener, Susan Metzger gets a ton of plant catalogs in the mail. Late last fall, as she was looking through some of those catalogs, an amaryllis bulb caught her eye. The bulb had been dipped in colored wax. It was priced at $30 or so and supposedly would bloom indoors during the colder months without a container. “I was fascinated. I was like, ‘Gary, we have to get one of these for your mom,’” Metzger told her husband, Gary Hauschulz. Then it dawned on her: “Wax. I use wax. Lots of wax! Maybe I could dip them and paint them,” the batik artist thought.