My Lampwork Jewelry

I have been making so many pieces of jewelry with my lampwork beads! I teach a class called "Drop on By" which is a bracelet that uses a lampwork bead as a focal. I have also been incorporating many of them in necklaces as well. Here are a few of my new bracelets and necklaces!

Now that the weather is nicer I am able to make beads in the morning, before I open the store and at night, after the store closes. I have been making about 8 to 10 beads a day. Most of my beads I sell at the store and seem to sell them faster than I can make them. I pull a few aside to use for my personal jewelry. I am still working on making them round but that doesn't seem to matter to my customers. I call them "Organic", they call them "One of a Kind" and they love them! I consider myself extremely lucky to be able to sell my beads while I continue to strive to make them round and work on different color combinations.

I haven't burned myself to badly yet and, best of all, I haven't burned down the house!

My First Peyote Wrapped Cabacon

We had 17 people at our Peyote Wrapped Cabacon class. Most people chose gemstones, well I chose one of my Dichroic Glass Pendants that I had etched. I really like the way it turned out but also learned a few things that I will do better when I make my next one!

We had a full house for our Peyote Cab Class. We had 17 show up for class!! It was so much fun to learn another use for all those little beads that we have in our store! We had a guest teacher, Gina Cooper, who did a spectacular job!

What a Day!!

Last year a large bead manufacturer used one of my bracelets in their catalog. It was the first time that any of my jewelry pieces had been published. Yesterday I received an e-mail from them asking to BUY another one of my pieces so that they can use it for some of their promotional pieces. I am so excited! Here is the piece that will be going in the mail today! I call it my Indian Corn Bracelet.

Precious Metal Clay (PMC)

I was lucky enough to take a week long class with MaryAnn and Ken Devos learning more about PMC. She is so talented! I made about 8 or 9 pieces and became certified in PMC. I was so proud of what I made. I put them all in a tray and displayed them in one of the front cases in my store. Customers would tease me and say, "When are you going to wear one of those pieces?" I treated the case like it was a shrine! Well, yesterday I finally took one of them out an incorporated it with some gemstones and crystals. Here it is!

We spent the last 3 days tubing, labeling and hanging seed bead tubes on the wall. Check out all of our new inventory. Another shipping is coming in next tuesday. It is never ending!! I love getting new beads in the store. It is fun showing new inventory to customers.

I did it!

I did it! I made a Lampwork bead to match two Czech Glass beads that I had in the store to create a beautiful Necklace. Here it is!!