My Kaleidoscopes

Kaleidoscope collecting is a fun hobby of mine, I decided to make some of my own. I worked with a plastic company to form the tubes and I got a class together. We made the front surface mirroro assemblies and made our own object chambers with bits of dichroic glass ,glass and plastic beads and even broken glass bangles from India floating around in mineral oil. I only did this for a short season and then moved on---

Aunt Susie's Kaleidoscopes

My Aunt Susie made me these fabulous kaleidoscopes with stained glass wheels. She used interesting glass gems and pieces of dichroic glass in all colors. One has pressed flowers on the sides and the wheel. She used high quality front surface mirrors on the insides. I have a collection of kaleidoscopes.