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One of my favourite places to hang out on the internet is the ‘Newbie Thread’ on the Wet Canvas forum, its morphed from the original idea of a place to post worksheets for a group of lampwork newbies to work on, to a wonderful little community within the Wet Canvas forum. So many of the participants [...] Here they are – my very first hollow boro beads! The dotted one is my favourite, part of it reduced to a silky gold finish, now I want to see if I can get a whole bead that colour! The pictures don’t capture that unfortunately. Michelle, you asked about boro on the mega minor. I have nothing to [...] Here are some dot beads I’ve made over the last week or so. There should be a name for a group of dot beads, I’ve always been partial to a ‘mischief of rats’ and a ‘murder of ravens’ – not sure about dots. . a blizzard of dots? Nahh – have you got a [...] Milder weather means I can torch more. I felt like doing some dot beads, and have been using the bigger mandrels, I like the size and feel of bead I can get with these. Still having some trouble getting the beads off the mandrel, and I think it’s because the cold pressed steel is [...] Here they are! The top one is the longest one of the day, the bottom one is a ‘remake’ of this one from last year – not quite the same, but you get the idea He’s usually soooo hard [...] It is official, I now have beads on display at David Paterson’s Glassblowing Studio in Merrickville, (my beads aren’t on his site, but you’ll see the kind of work he does) I put a display stand together to hold some single beads on cords, and have also submitted some necklaces to The Grotto, I think they [...] Yesterday was fun at the torch!! I am starting to understand how the size and placement of the dots can create different patterns – sounds obvious right? Not so, my green and black bead in this picture has tiny white rectangles between the big dots, I was thrilled when this happened. It’s all about how the [...] I have a HUGE pile of beads waiting to be annealed, I hope to get them done this week. It’s hard to bite the bullet and tell myself ‘do it!’, because I keep wanting to add more beads to the pile!! These are spacers I made last week to help me put some bigger beads together [...] The hardest thing about lampwork is staying focussed! Too many colours, too many shapes, too much wonderful inspiration out there, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to make a set of beads for a necklace I’m having way too much fun flitting from bead to bead. Here are three barrels I made yesterday – I even named [...] |
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