MOUNTAIN LIFE - Blue Mountains | Spring 2021

it was -5C or warmer, but anything colder than that and the glass would crack and break while I was making it. I was often blowing in my snow pants for warmth,” she laughs. Kate buttoned up the last interior wall this winter, making her way through the final stack of barn boards. “By the time I finished that wall, I had just a few pieces left, and I used them to build a chicken coop. Possibly the most rewarding part of the project was having nothing leftover at the end.” With only a bit of paint, trim and siding remaining on her list, she now spends her days in a spacious studio with room for a glassblowing hot shop and coldworking room, metalsmithing shop, gallery, teaching area and busy e-commerce space. The completed project is undeniably cool. “I just wanted to use all these rustic materials I had gathered from here, there and everywhere, and somehow marry them with the aesthetic my glass needs—to be displayed on crisp white,” she says. The funky, classic result suits both Kate and her work. When customers file in during studio tours, they’re often as taken with the barn as they are with the art. Kate is nothing short of gleeful with the space. She grins, “It’s the story of an amazing building, a booming business and a scrappy young entrepreneur.” Infinite Glassworks is located in the gold-rush hamlet of Eugenia. infiniteglassworks.com Educated Healthy GardenChoices gardenholistics.com 519-599-1003 Thornbury, Ontario Find us on: /HW·V EXLOG \RXU GUHDP JDUGHQ WRJHWKHU