Two of the most frustrating issues most lampworkers face getting started with lampworking are Didymium glasses for eye protection and perfect ventilation. It took me years to solve these issues! Here's my solution for eye protection that works great for me. My didymium shield for glass lampworking. The arm is bendable & swivels. [...]
I just watched a TED talk about how giving yourself too many choices (overload) kills your creativity and even causes you to make bad decisions! And if you offer too many options to your customers, statistics show they will freeze up and choose nothing. Bottom line... Cramming too much into a small space actually causes [...]
My video demos 4 different lampwork tutorials that I use to make bubbles in glass. Each one creates a different effect in your bead. Each of these bubble lampwork tutorials has been picked up from my exploring glass from different areas of glass making. When I lived in Georgia, I would go [...]
Unique Beads…How to create them? Let’s talk about creating unique beads that are one of a kind & you! You’ve learned tons of silver techniques that you can be incorporating into your beads. But the secret is to spend time exploring each of these silver techniques until you have mastered them. I spent [...]
Lampwork Tutorials using Silver Foil… Are ya loving exploring Silver in these videos?? TIP: When we cover something new in a lampwork tutorial video, practice, practice, practice the technique. Then, immediately, start incorporating the technique into whatever you are doing with your beads at the moment. Use the technique as a background, part of [...]
Silver Leaf lampwork techniques that will get you having fun on your torch today! I wanted to share how I use fine silver leaf and silver foil on my beads today but when I started videoing, I could have talked and demoed for an hour. Sssoooo, I decided to demo silver leaf lampwork [...]
You’re going to learn how to reduce silver glass in these lampwork tutorials, today. I’ll be talking about the different flames you need to use, what to watch out for before you loose your gorgeous shiny silver reflections…..sh#@*t… and how to start over again! :) Here’s my reducing silver video…enjoy… It’s hard to include [...]
