murrini «

Goddess Beads and More Murrini

I’ve been enjoying making Goddess beads the last couple of days.

I’m pleased with the design and I like the way the silver leaf and ivory glass give a natural, almost bone-like quality to the glass.

Goddess Bead with Murrini

I tried something different with two of these – can you tell what I did? I took a [...]

Wearable Ice Cream and Cup Cakes??

Yes! Wearable ice cream and cupcakes – you did hear right! Summer is around the corner and what could be better than an ice cream cone that never drips, or a cup cake with ZERO calories! I’ll be putting the two beads on the right up on ArtFire shortly.

Here’s a glimpse at another design I’m working [...]

Fun using Murrini in beads – how to do it!

Every now and then I use murrini in my beads -

Murinni chip in a bead

I especially like to add a dot of clear glass on top of the chip to help magnify the design.

my favourite murrini bead

The bead above is one of my favourites because of the unique shape, it’s fun to hold – [...]

First Murrini

Sometimes something very little can cause great excitement… take my first murrini for example!

Sorry it’s such a blurry picture, but you have to realise I’m photographing something not much bigger than a pin head ;o) This is my camera on micro macro manual focus, with me trying to focus using one hand because my [...]

First Get-Together of Ottawa Group!

Last Saturday was the first get-together of our Ottawa group of lampworkers! It was great to finally get to meet people and see what we are all up to.

Jen Muise very kindly invited us all over to her house for the evening. Ontario winter weather being what it is, the snow started coming down [...]

My beads are annealed and I’m thrilled as I only lost about three of them to cracking. Now I’ve started making some simple necklaces and have to get some things ready to present to the Gallery. Also David Paterson the glass blower who does the annealing for me wants me to stop by and talk about [...]

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 [...]