I decided a few weeks ago it was time for me to practice making flowers again. Why? It’s spring… and my sister’s birthday. Now y’all know i’m not really the floral type so it was definitely more for the latter reason than the former. My much, much older (ANCIENT actually!) sister Frances just llllooooovvves flowers. And not [...]
Posts Tagged ‘blue’
Flowers and birthday blues…
Posted in family, glass beads, lampwork flamework, tagged biagi beads, birthday blues, birthdays, blue, bracelet beads, chamilia beads, cobalt, encased florals, european charm bracelets, floral beads, flower beads, flowers, pandora beads, sisters, troll beads on April 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Tales from the Torch: Feb. & March (part deux)
Posted in glass art, lampwork flamework, tagged blue, chocolate, flamework, glass art, glass beads, goddess bead, long beads, pendant, valentine's day, venus figurines, winter garden on May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m back on the Teenager’s computer again as the kitten Busta finally finished chewing through my laptop’s power cable. Now doesn’t having a cat usually mean no pets chewing random valuables around the house??? i might as well have a dog. Soooo… until i decide whether to replace the power cable and harddrive on my laptop [...]
What the…????!!!
Posted in glass art, glass beads, lampwork flamework, tagged bead sets, blue, deep blue sea, flamework, glass art, glass beads, gold, silver on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know, I know… i’m just as shocked as you. seriously. It’s a set. And I don’t make sets. Really. i don’t. I’ve only ever made one other set before and it was pure torture. Took me over a year to finish those too. But this set? just took a me a few hours yesterday morning. barely. I [...]
Tales from the torch: Jan. 26th/08
Posted in design, glass art, glass beads, jewellery, lampwork flamework, tagged Almond Blossom, blue, design, flamework, glass, glass art, glass beads, goddess bead, pendants, pink, Tales from the torch, thunderstorm, venus figurine, Vincent van Gogh on January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Results from my last few torch sessions – a goddess and two pendants for a couple custom orders: Hades Goddess: (sold) Sometimes simple is best. This is just black glass and silver leaf passed through a reduction flame to bring out the iridescence. I had originally planned to tart her up with some frit and [...]
Two pendants also off to a good home
Posted in glass art, jewellery, lampwork flamework, tagged autumn, blue, fall colours, flamework, glass art, glass beads, leaves, orange, pendant, red, silver, spring, tree on November 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I recently donated these two pendants to the charity silent auction at my office. I’m happy to say both went to the same home. Both pendants were wired on sterling silver and came with 18″ sterling silver snake chains. Spring Rain Pendant: Approx. 2.25″ The pendant is made of opaque and transparent light blue glass, wrapped in pure silver, then [...]
Tales from the torch: Nov. 8th/07
Posted in design, glass art, lampwork flamework, tagged blue, copper, creative process, design, design process, flamework, frit, glass art, glass beads, lampwork flamework, silver foil, torch on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is a quick pic of the results of yesterday’s torch session and the bits and pieces that went into making these two beads. At the top is my marver with the three types of frit ( tiny glass chips) i used. (you can ignore the red powder, that’s the enamel i used for this [...]












