"I had this experience that was quite a magical fusion of luck and revolutionary considering from master teachers. Then as soon as I came home, I met a Finnish glassblower referred to as Mikko Merikallio who was also a furnace builder and inventor," remembers Anselm. "He was very, very good on the relevant technology we required to obtain started. So we cleared a space at Kitengela and began building."Because we had no electricity, we had being self powered," he continues. "So Mikko helped us to put in this steam-injected method that utilized recycled engine oil to power the furnaces and melt our material. Energy-saving processes for example these were significant to us. Even back then we wanted to have a great working relationship of the environment."Anselm and his workers have been learning as they went, blowing objects and casting glass that they then turned into furniture. Then Anselm's sister Katrineka started generating glass beads and items began taking off. The team finished the front part in the studio, but to be able to produce the now-famous dome, Kitengela Glass required bricks."We sold goblets to build it," Anselm says, "and based the design on an old 15th century glass working furnace. Plus I thought the shape was cool. It took three or four years, but by the time it was done, we'd evolved from one studio into a number of them."As it turned out, the guys who'd been working with us needed work and I asked, ‘Who wants to understand how to blow glass?' That's basically how Kitengela Hot Glass got started. We all just dove in."