Kaplan Creations Jewelry and Glass Design

A few days ago I got these beads from my bead soup party partner Janeen. Just my colors and quite a lovely array of beads. I’m hoping to make something delicious!

I love to find vintage beads and then incorporate them into a contemporary design. These vintage (1970s) frosted lucite beads are 13mm in size and have a black flower scroll design. These are new old beads, meaning that they are of old stock but have never been used in any other jewelry.

I’ve incorporated these unique beads along with onyx and sterling silver to create a lovely pair of post earrings. They are available in my Etsy shop.

I spent the last 3 days of my little mini-vacation trying to organize my studio. I had glass all over the place, and I have been keeping it all arranged in this really unstable wheeled stand. It was just a matter of time before it would all come crashing down. I used to keep the glass in jars on top of my workbench organized by colors, but now my ventilation hood sits on the bench and takes up a lot of room. So I bought a bunch of pvc type pipes, sawed them in half, stuffed plastic bubble wrap or plastic bags into one end of each tube to stop the glass rods from falling out the back, and stacked them in a strong plastic box. The box is tilted up about 3″ using bricks. The idea thing to do would have been to cut the PVC pipes at a 45 degree angle and then attach them to a wall with the opening slanting upward, but unfortunately I didn’t have a wall available. Anyway, this will work for now.

Bead Soup Party–Join the Fun!!

Lori Anderson is having a virtual bead soup party and bead swap. This sounds like a great way to bring in the new year, and you’re invited! Visit Lori’s blog to get the details and to see who else will be there.

Hmmm. Something fishy going on. Where have my past posts gone? The last post shown is from September.