The entire stand is made out of glass. Gail cuts each piece and arranges them. Then she fires them and that flattens them out. Then she adds the glass dots and fires again in a different way and that melts the dots just enough to mate them to the main part of the stand. It takes about 8 hours to make a single stand. Most of that time is in the kiln of course. She is getting ready to open up an Etsy store to sell these and many other glass things that she makes.