Not a bad session at the torch on Good Friday.  I had an extended session (most of the day) since I didn’t need to race out the door to pick children up from school and so I could let the kiln stay on longer.

These are stunners,. the left one looks like an [...]

Something a bit different and very fun to make. Though according to both of my daughters 16yrs & 12yrs,..who told me this at separate times without them knowing their sibling saw the same thing,….. the bead on the RHS  (Side A pic) has a cute green snail on it.  See his antennae and his wide [...]

Sorry Mwahaahahaha.  Still trying…still failing, but at least I know what doesn’t work. and think I know what will work.

Oh and I also made a few Gizbys today,. but sheesh… they be camera shy ones and they bolted before I could take a snap of them. grrrrrr 

Ok… I know I know,.. I am cruel… but here be the distorted image of an idea I am still working on.  I really can’t show you yet, even though they’re turning out nicer than my first few attempts. They’re still far from where I would like them to be and so really don’t want [...]

An unusual (for me) Saturday session. This is 8hrs at the torch and I was pretty exhausted afterwards. Most of these are encased in clear which is quite time consuming. I had 6 mandrels left and had planned to keep going until I hade no more mandrels… but alas.. my eyes had had enough and [...]

Today’s beads were made very a special lady M*******.  The middle one though was a failed bead (failed as in not matching the others very well) . I’ve just checked and that bead’s photo is sitting in a folder waiting to be listed on ebay, on Sat PM 18 April PDT / Sun AM 19 [...]

Two focals and a matching focal & earring set. Focal 1: the top of this bead looks almost like opal,.. and a weird thing happened to this bead,.. there is a mandrel line down the middle perhaps because there is mostly clear glass in that area?? if anyone knows why this happened.. please [...]