Glass provides a resting place for wine, evening wear for Cinderellas, and a more dramatic exit from 44th-floor windows for Bruce Willises. Shatter artistic inhibitions with today's Groupon: for $40, you get a six-week basic stained-glass or glass-fusing course at Grand Central Stained Glass & Graphics in St. Petersburg (a $105 value). Today's Groupon also includes a $10 voucher toward supplementary materials that can cost from $50 to $100 for either course.

Grand Central Stained Glass & Graphics infuses students with the knowledge and dexterity to safely transform pieces of glass and wire into unique works of art. The two-hour lessons touch on new techniques each week and participants can apply these design flourishes to new projects or pieces partially finished in the previous weeks. During beginning stained glass, hands will gradually learn the basic skills needed to cut glass into different shapes, solder, and hold their crush's palm without sweating. At the end of the last session, students will take home stained-glass masterpieces they designed and constructed themselves. The beginning-glass-fusing course guides neophytes as they learn how to contort and fuse glass with an array of special tools and a kiln. Participants can finish the course with a variety of fused keepsakes, including a piece of jewelry and wind chimes to alert residents of sneezes from big bad wolves.

With a limit of 15 students per session, apprentices enjoy ample one-on-one instruction from a tandem of experienced teachers and an entire custom-built worktable to themselves during morning, afternoon, or evening classes. Students have full use of Grand Central's tools and machines, and can work with supplies brought from home, purchased from the store, or popped out of derelict buses left in an impound lot.

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