Think inside the box! (Superglue is your friend.)

Bah. Superglue won't be nearly as strong as soldering the heavy wire on which the bug's body is strung into a seam on the panel... and I won't get my fingers stuck together using solder either :)

Ugh. I am extremely adept at gluing all the fingers of one hand together with superglue - I can see why that would be bad.

I popped in just wanting to say that that dragonfly is really cool. ;)

Duuuude! I want one!!!

hee. Sapphireblue.com: your source for big glass bugs.

You could make a fortune. :)

Maybe... I went to the Home & Garden show I guess last month to check out the work of a local stained glass artist, and due to the show program having a typo in the location of the vendor I was there to visit, I wandered both floors of the convention center for a good while before finding him. During my travels, it seemed as if everyone these was clutching one of two things: cut pussywillows, or these big chunky sort of abstract dragonflies made of giant iridescent glass marbles worked into spiraling copper garden stakes. Very similar to these. (And I'm sure that's what put me in mind of a bug for the lilypads panel, though I'm not happy with my wings and am thinking of making them out of my oil-slick glass.)

Either the vendor of the garden bugs had put them on a huge last-day-of-show discount, or the masses simply crave gigantic sparkly garden bugs.