Long time no post!

Haven't posted in ages, but time to start again. I think I limited myself by making all posts about beads, so this is just MY blog. Period.

Carssen Jude was born 7-11-07, and he is a doll baby! Check him out!!

Made it in!

I just got my letter today, one of my beads was accepted to be included in a book being published, called Bead Review 2005, I am excited!

Glass Heaven!

Oh, a lot to write! But I will have to summarize because otherwise I will get carpal trying to write this all out. I took a class with Andrea Guarino and Kimberly Affleck this weekend, and it was great! Too much information to take in at one time but I took anal notes so should have enough to go on to try to make the techniques my own over the next while. Lots of organic technique and one floral, which for a floral addict....very gratifying. :) To see someone else make florals! My version of what I learned is to the left..

Life gets in the way!

Life is a bit overwhelming right now. Thank goodness glass makes things better. Just kidding.

My DH has been hard at work finishing off the third stall of our garage as a workshop room for us. He is a very good guy and very talented with projects like this. New ventilation is imminent, as well as a safer fuel source arrangement. He has the wall up, two new electrical circuits in, and a new workshop light. Very cool. I will post pictures on lampworketc.com once it is all safe and cleaned up.

Some other new beads that are now on eBay -- these are very outerspacy and so substantial--they would make a very great, very bold necklace.

Pop Florals

A new set on eBay, I have another set of these is a blue/purple theme that I will be listing soon, these are so fun!

You know, people ask me quite regularly how to buy beads from me -- mostly its via my auctions, but if you see something in my image galleries you like, some of them can be rethemed. I don't say duplicated, because of course, you can never get one set to look exactly like another, in my opinion, but you can recapture the spirit!

Sculptural Flowers

On Sunday Oct 9, the talented Theresa Hess hosted another Treasure Valley Lampworkers gettogether, and she demoed creating sculptural flowers. Its quite fun and I know I'll be playing more with this technique, but here are a couple of samples below. Thanks Theresa, for sharing your home and knowledge, and it was fun to meet all of you who were there!

It's really interesting to see how different people work glass and see how different their beads can be. Its almost like fingerprints or snowflakes, other than the most basic of beads, people's style just really seems to come through.

Floribundus Cartoonus

These are an example of a fun, cartoony style I've done a few sets of recently. These colors, aqua, brown, lime, orange and pink seem to be very popular this fall with the young crowd :)