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More flower beads

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Working on lampworking flower beads–some are better than others.

What usually happens is that I make a really  nice flower, and then ruin it while trying to encase it.

Here are a couple that aren’t too bad. The one on the right isn’t really a flower, but more like a garden..

Floral beads

Lampworking sabbatical

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

I’ve taken a pretty long hiatus from making jewelry, but am now slowly getting back on track. In the meantime I’ve been spending my free time lampworking, taking classes, and learning new techniques. Last month I took two classes taught by Mary Lockwood at Glass Firenze, located here in Eagle River. One of the classes was on encasing beads, the other was on making floral beads. Both were terrific, but as you can see from the picture, I still have a lot of practicing to do.

The “best” floral bead that I made in class