Lampworking Flower Beads 102: Secrets To How To Think Sculpturally is Finished!!! I have a special price on Tutorial 102 for my newsletter friends. But first, let me tell you about my new baby, Tutorial 102! You will learn step by step the lampworking techniques to make 2 flower beads: 'Puffy Flowers' & 'Floating Flowers'. [...]
May is here and it's time for a new Flower of the month! This flower is blooming in my gardens right now. It has many faces, comes in many colors and is the Birthday flower for the month of June. It's the sign of love for many cultures and we especially like giving them in [...]
Well, it's April 14 and I am still trying to catch up! My 1st month of making a 'NEW Flower of the Month' was exhilarating, exhausting and overwhelming. I sorta dropped living my life and focused totaling on creating the apple blossoms. Lampworking or Family? My family started griping there was no food to be [...]
It's been an amazing March, getting acquainted with Apple Blossoms. My apple tree has little green apples on it, now, and all the blooms are gone! It's time for me to move on as well, to my NEW flower! Before I announce my NEW FLOWER FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL though, I think we should [...]
Ta-Da!!!! Here is the Apple Blossom Giveaway Bead. She is sweet, delicate and beautiful! Her value is over $117.00. I'm sure someone will be tickled pink when they win this sweet thing!! The giveaway will end March 31, and the winner will be drawn on April 1st. I will announce the Winner on April 2nd!!!! [...]
I am so excited about sharing with you 2 really cool projects I have been working on. First, I Finished My LAMPWORKING BEAD TUTORIAL! Yea!!! I finally finished my tutorial and I am getting wonderful feedback about it! The tutorial ended up over 70 pages with lots of information and two bead demos. There was [...]
Important Notice: ****You must make your giveaway contest entries in the white Rafflecopter widget below the apple blossom pictures. That is the only way for us to track the entries. Entries in comments can not be tracked/counted.**** It's been a difficult week figuring out how to work things so I still have a tiny bit [...]
Well, so much for doing a blog every week. I've already slipped. But I've been doing a lot of thinking about your answers from the survey. I've come up with some ideas that I hope will please everyone. Everyone liked the Lampwork Bead Giveaway. So I thought I would challenge myself in the process and [...]
Me! Made you wonder a little, didn't it? Hi! Just wanted to share with you what's going on in my neck of the woods. Survey Results I was so thrilled with the results of the survey and I want to THANK everyone who participated. I got some excellent ideas that I plan to implement. Here [...]
WOW, the holidays sure came and went fast! I hope you had a perfect season with too much to eat, tons of laughter and enjoyed visiting with relatives you haven't seen in a year! I've been doing a lot of thinking about 2012 and new directions I want to travel in with my lampwork beads. [...]
