Got the Vase Done

Glass vase not transparent.

For some reason my glass vase is very rough, and not transparent. In these pics you can see my settings. Any idea how to fix these 2 problems?

Carpet Render

I know you can see that one line of tile edge running from one end of the floor to the other,  but other than that, not bad for a first time.

Table and Carpet Texture

This is the table and carpet I made from the book project I'm doing from Blender Foundations by Roland Hess. I know the edge of the table is not great, but how does the rest of it look? I'm pretty happy with it so far. If I had more experience I'd try to fix the edge, but for now I'm going to move on to texturing the vases.

Currently Modeling a Dragon

I am modeling this dragon right now, just to get some practice. It started out as a cube and I've extruded, scaled, pushed, and pulled, until I got this general dragon shape. I occasionally look over my work to find that areas have no faces or the face is not completely there. I'm still not sure what's causing that or how to prevent it.

I started using Blender about a week ago

I started using Blender 2.62 about a week ago. I am completely new to animation and only slightly familiar with Photoshop. That is the extent of my CG experience.

I thought I would like to have a place to post my trials and my errors as I go along.

I have found many useful tutorials online and hope to one day be knowledgeable enough and skilled enough to contribute my own tutorials.

I'm finding that it is a great help to have forums to ask questions on.

I am using BlenderArtists.org a lot. http://blenderartists.org/forum/index.php

I am also using Blender.org

As well as http://cgcookie.com/blender/

I'm also using the book Blender Foundations, The Essential Guide to Learning Blender 2.6 by Roland Hess. I am currently attempting to do the project from that book. I'm on Chap 7.

Any advice from anyone who stumbles across this blog would be greatly appreciated!