February 23, 2008 at 4:39 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: no beading during surgery recuperation
I haven’t been making many beads this past couple of weeks due to preparation for a Wild Party at Chez Omino. I just made a few dot beads with some pretty vetrofond colors, I need to keep up the dot thing and do some more experimentation with stacking. I still don’t have as much control as I’d like, actually, in any category.
I have a potentially very frustrating time ahead, recuperating from a surgery that will make it virtually impossible to sit at my torch. I think I’ll hit a lamwork forum and see if any of my fellows have had this problem, and what (if anything) they were able to do about it. The thought of not making a bead for 2-3 weeks is very sad-making. I could purchase a couple of kits from Rachel, for something creative to do with my hands…but it’s not the same.
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February 11, 2008 at 3:50 am (glass, handforged metal, jewelry, lampwork)
Tags: copper wire, handforged metal jewelry, lampwork beads
My awesome friend Rachel is a bead and wire jewelry maker extraordinaire. She gave a private class to me and my friend Catharine Saturday on hand-forged metal jewelry. Everything is handmade, even the earring wire and bracelet toggle and jump rings. I’m very excited to do this using silver wire. It’s very cool to watch something round go flat under one’s persistent, er, ministrations.
BANG BANG BANG
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February 11, 2008 at 3:45 am (bubbles, fusing, glass)
Tags: accidental beauty, dots, freeform, glass, lampwork, stacking, Vetrifond
I’ve been cruising lots of lampwork bead artists’ work of late. I will say I am inspired now to find my own language with glass. This is a beginning. I thought these Vetrifond colors would stack well, so I started the bead on top. The glass started bubbling (I guess my flame was too hot), so I grabbed an ivory stringer and filled in the hole with a big ol’ dot, added a strawberry dot and poked it topping off with a dot of clear on top to make a bubble (not visible in foto). The ends weren’t dimpling very nicely, so I added the green disks at top and bottom, and then just grabbed an clear-encased aventurine stringer. I decided not to worry that the shape was not “perfect.” I was so pleased with the result, I decided to make a set.
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February 6, 2008 at 6:04 am (glass, jewelry, lampwork)
Tags: encased, glass bead, lampwork, planet, swirlie
I just did something that I think will make some gorgeous beads. Nothing terribly new, just stacking lots of colors in a disk and letting them flow all over each other. Very planetoid-looking beads. The possibilities for color and design are, I think, pretty exciting.
This one is pretty large, barrel-shaped, and very 3D. I shaped the swirly on a marver to get indentations, the encased the whole thing in Lauscha clear. I hadn’t realized that the bead would turn into a great ocean-waves-crashing-against-cliffs scene. I’d love to be able to capture it on film!
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