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'. [...]
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 [...]
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!!!! [...]
It's been busy around here creating my glass lampwork video. I started it about 2 months ago. My goal was to get more information about lampworking to the general public. It seems nobody in Hallettsville knew what lampworking was and it got me to thinking.... I wonder how many people in general have never heard [...]
I played hooky Sunday and went dancing. People dance a lot in this part of Texas. We are learning how to polka and waltz. It is extreme exercise and I had trouble keeping up with couples on the dance floor who are over 80 years old! No kidding! I've been working on making a fish [...]
Celebrating Valentine's Day with Roses This gorgeous glass lampwork bead has 3 luscious pink roses that are gathered by glass pink and red ribbons. A yummy red heart is the wonderful background to accent these pink roses. Red roses have always expressed a passionate, romantic love while pink roses denotes attributes of desire, passion, joy [...]
The festive holidays has rusted my lampwork flow! I love the holiday's festivities is an understatement! The artist in me embraces wreath making, baking & decorating to the point that my house is overflowing with the Christmas spirit. Christmas is over now & my Christmas cheer will be sadly coming down this weekend. I"ll so [...]
This lovely sculptural Periwinkle Blue Iris is made out of glass using lampwork techniques! Amazing, right? How do I do it? I take molten glass and manipulate the glass while it is hot into petals. This is a perfectly timed dance of being in and out of the flame. Too much time in the [...]
Cheerful Christmas Hibiscus has secrets to tell! Hibiscus cheerfully exclaim how fantastic it is to live in the Tropics. Life always seems to be in celebration with hot, bright colors, cool breezes and the sounds of frothy waves happily slapping the shore. Wearing a piece of this scene instantly entices you to partake of this [...]
Fall is coming or it might be here, it's hard to tell in my region of Texas. What's exciting is that my hardy hibiscus started blooming. The bloom is about 5" in diameter. I haven't figured out how to make them in glass but, boy, I would love to. My Art Nouveau Bouquets I'm still [...]
