Flower Earrings I've been working on new jewelry designs for glass flower earrings. Inspired from the blooming flowers in my garden, hydrangeas and roses are on the top of my list of sumptuous blooms! And, capturing their essence in glass is always a challenge. It's hard to out shine Mother Nature! Grab them here...very [...]
Secrets of Lampworking Glass Flowers Want to know my indispensable steps for lampworking glass flowers? I'll explain the steps using my Plumeria flowers as the example. It's all in forgetting everything you know about how you see the world. You need to start with the assumption that we don't see what we're looking at. Lampworking [...]
Looking for some warm tropical inspiration to take your mind off the cold outside? These colorful glass fish should do the trick. They're in my website shop's Lampwork Focals, waiting for you to take a closer look. You can make jewelry with them, run a simple chain though them or just display them as a sunny [...]
Are we Kindred spirits, connected on a deeper level? Do You have a Deep passion for flowers? I'm not talking 'Oh, that's pretty' response when you see a gorgeous flower. Instead, . It's as if you are in the presence of the holiness Dalai Lama! It feels like a form of spiritual worship that tingles [...]
Here’s a FUN way to practice making your glass flowers from your Tutorial 103 & make something fabulous... "Fairy Gardens" Fairy gardens are so precious but finding unusual flowers befitting a mystical miniature garden is next to impossible. So I decided to make my own exotic flowers worthy of my fairy gardens and you can [...]
Has the weather been dreary for you, too? Colorful, bright flowers of glass always uplifts the spirits. All my flowers have died here… except the weeds, of course! They are happily thriving, thumbing their noses at me! They know I won’t come out in the cold and weed them! About this time of [...]
Do you revisit your lampwork dreams periodically? Do you feel a breath of fresh air from new ideas bubbling up inside of you? Or does 'overwhelmed & frustrated with lampworking' describe your feelings? For me, when I ventured into my studio after a lapse of time, I always have to clean up the tornado of mess [...]
Lots going on here… a NEW Hydrangea tutorial in the works, a painting exhibition & a beginner's lampwork class! Christmas came and went in a blur here. Within the hustle and bustle of the Christmas and New Year's season, I managed to have a wonderful sale of my 3 first tutorials. I also finished Christmas [...]
MY Lampwork Beads Flower Journal I've been working for the last 2 weeks on NEW flowers. I started with silver lampworking glass and my Tutorial 103 flower. After about 8 flowers, tons of experimenting, bouncing off the walls of my creative limitation box, I finally broke through and emerged into a whole new and very [...]
Are you ready for my newest Flower Lampwork Tutorial 103? It's almost finished! You're going to love this one! It's packed full of tips and personal secrets that will save you time in learning to make sculptural flowers. I'll show you shortcuts so you won't have to go through the mistakes I made. Some of [...]
