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  Our latest shipment has arrived - we have amazing new Dichroics and Bullseye in stock, take a look on our Glass Fusing page.

Our next container is on order now with an ETA in NZ end of Mar 2010 - new products arriving - Beautiful Wissmach, Uroboros and Youghiogheny Streaky Opal Art glass, 90.0 Bullseye Billets, thins and Gold/Silver Iridescents, 82.0 FloatFire, Flashed Antiques, Specialty Dichroics, Coloured Jewels, Opal & Iridezed Gems just to name a few.

Leadlight Products NZ - DeVetro Art Glass Competition 2009 - Here are your Overall Competition winners.

  Category 1 - Leadlight

                                        Lisa Wells

Category 2 - Glass Mosaic

                                 Odette Wech

Category 3 - Lampshades

                                 Lynley Walton

Category 4 - Copperfoil Suncatchers

                               Elaine Hooper                                                                       

Category 5 - Fused Glass Jewellery

                    Debbie Homan                                                     

Category 6 - Kiln Worked Glass

                              Lisa Wells

The special 2009 prize for best use of Kiwiana Theme has been awarded to Kevin Baker for his beautiful Tui and Kowhai design leadlight panel (featured below).              

                                        Kevin Baker                                       

   Categories for the 2009 DeVetro Art Glass Competition were;

Leadlight - Glass Mosaic - Fused Glass Jewellery - Kiln Worked Glass - Copperfoil Suncatchers - Lampshades

Judging; Qualified professional artists will be selected at the discretion of Leadlight Products NZ management. Your entry may be of an original, pre published or altered published design. Two finalists in each respective category will be selected by the judges, from which one grand winner will be chosen by public voting for each category. The category finalists will be announced and listed on our website in October 2009, public voting will take place throughout October/November. The grand prize winners will be announced in the Dec/Jan  issue of our Get Cracking newsletter.

Prizes; Judges will choose 2 Finalists per category, each will recieve $50.00 worth of art glass and go foreward to the public voting stage. From which one Grand winner per category will be chosen by public voting and recieve $200.00 worth of art glass and their Leadlight Products NZ - DeVetro Art Glass 2009 Category award.

Special Prize; $100.00 voucher awarded to the entry with the best use of Kiwiana or South Pacific theme. The winner of this prize will also be presented with the Leadlight Products NZ - DeVetro Art Glass  2009 Kiwiana award.

Online Newsletter Subscription Lucky Prize Winners

***February 2010 - Lucky prize winner, Kerry Gilbert from Hastings, NZ. Receiving a new aluminium straight edge.

***January 2010 - Lucky prize winner, Kim Singer from Westport, NZ. Receiving a new aluminium straight edge.

***December 09 - Lucky prize winner, Peter Palmer from Invercargill, NZ. Receiving a new aluminium straight edge.

***November 09 - Lucky prize winner, John Snelz from Northland, NZ. Receiving a new Triple Headed Hammer.

***October 09 - Lucky prize winner, Debbie Clarke from Masterton, NZ. Receiving a new Triple Headed Hammer.

***September 09 - Lucky prize winner, Donna Martin from Ngatea, NZ. Receiving a new glass griffy.

***August 09 - Lucky Prize winner, Paul Robertson from Auckland, NZ. Receiving a new glass griffy.

***July 09 -  Lucky prize winner, Deirdre Clarke from Rotorua, NZ. Receiving a new pair of safety glasses.

***June 09 - Lucky prize winner, Jeni Kearns from New Plymouth, NZ. Receiving a new oil filled glass cutter.

***May 09 - Lucky prize winner, Suzi Brown from Hokowhitu, NZ. Receiving a new oil filled glass cutter.

***April 09 - Lucky prize winner, S. Marshall from Feilding, NZ. Receiving a bottle of Clean-all hand cleaner.

 Congratulations to you all.

Cast your vote here  info@leadlight.co.nz  (you may each cast one vote per category)  Public voting closes November 30th 2009. Winners announced in our Dec/Jan Get Cracking newsletter.