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 [...]
Warm Hello from Hot Texas! I want to share with you something that is coming your way, that I don't want you to miss! It's called "Your Shortcut to Fall's Hottest Colors & Trends," a Free Report (16 pages) that I have been working on for the past 2 months. It's jam packed full with [...]
WOW! Can you believe it's already July? I hope everyone had a sparkling 4th of July! We went to Shiner, Texas and watch an amazing display of fireworks sponsored by Shiner Beer. After that we went dancing! The city of Shiner has a festival that day and it ends with a street dance under the [...]
Hi, First, I want to express a heartfelt 'Thank You' for all the kind and thoughtful comments I got on last week's lampworking tutorial questions. As I work on Tutorial 103, I'll keep your ideas in mind. I wish there was a way to have more personal contact and interaction with the tutorials... I would [...]
Romantic hearts with roses immortalized in glass, a rose giveaway, plus Flower inspiration...WOW! I plan to start creating my 3rd lampworking bead tutorial in June This 3rd tutorial will center on Sculptural flowers. I will be focusing on three beautiful, 3 to 4 petal flowers in this tutorial that will be perfect for creating a [...]
I've made May's Rose Lampwork Giveaway Bead! It was at the end of my exploring roses. But, let's start at the beginning and I'll share with you how I got to May's Giveaway Bead. I started my lampworking journey with one of my favorite roses in my garden. My 1st Lampwork Rose Was Inspired by [...]
Lampworking Flower Beads 102: Secrets To How To Think Sculpturally is Finished!!! I have a special price on Tutorial 102 for my newsletter friends. But first, let me tell you about my new baby, Tutorial 102! You will learn step by step the lampworking techniques to make 2 flower beads: 'Puffy Flowers' & 'Floating Flowers'. [...]
May is here and it's time for a new Flower of the month! This flower is blooming in my gardens right now. It has many faces, comes in many colors and is the Birthday flower for the month of June. It's the sign of love for many cultures and we especially like giving them in [...]
I played hooky Sunday and went dancing. People dance a lot in this part of Texas. We are learning how to polka and waltz. It is extreme exercise and I had trouble keeping up with couples on the dance floor who are over 80 years old! No kidding! I've been working on making a fish [...]
This week we are going to talk about my FAVORITE 2011 jewelry trend-Vintage & Retro. This trend seems to me to be a splitting off from the Steampunk trend. It has all the characteristics of Victorian era jewelry without the alternate futuristic reality theme of Steampunk. Continuing, though, is the era's steam engine influences, reflected [...]
