In October of 1999, Donna took her first lesson in off-hand glass blowing and immediately a love affair began. Her glass is created by off-hand glass blowing. Molten glass is gathered from the furnace and color applied either by using solid bar, frits (smaller chucks of colored glass) or powders. The glass is then shaped by using various tools and if a vessel is being made air is puffed into the blow pipe to expand the piece and create the opening. Currently the majority of her work is done solo.

There is a mystique surrounding the ability to take a substance that is 2100ºF, far to hot to touch with your hands, but yet strangely enough you can affect it with

a puff of breath. The artist literally breaths life into this art form. It becomes a dance of such sensuality between the artist and the glass that even the casual observer becomes immersed. More than anything glass blowing requires finesse, almost like a gentleness with fluidity and purpose. Patience, if an aspiring glassblower does not have patience they soon will. All in due time. It is being present at that moment in time, with that piece of glass and nothing else.