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 [...]
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 [...]
Well, it's April 14 and I am still trying to catch up! My 1st month of making a 'NEW Flower of the Month' was exhilarating, exhausting and overwhelming. I sorta dropped living my life and focused totaling on creating the apple blossoms. Lampworking or Family? My family started griping there was no food to be [...]
It's been an amazing March, getting acquainted with Apple Blossoms. My apple tree has little green apples on it, now, and all the blooms are gone! It's time for me to move on as well, to my NEW flower! Before I announce my NEW FLOWER FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL though, I think we should [...]
Ta-Da!!!! Here is the Apple Blossom Giveaway Bead. She is sweet, delicate and beautiful! Her value is over $117.00. I'm sure someone will be tickled pink when they win this sweet thing!! The giveaway will end March 31, and the winner will be drawn on April 1st. I will announce the Winner on April 2nd!!!! [...]
I am so excited about sharing with you 2 really cool projects I have been working on. First, I Finished My LAMPWORKING BEAD TUTORIAL! Yea!!! I finally finished my tutorial and I am getting wonderful feedback about it! The tutorial ended up over 70 pages with lots of information and two bead demos. There was [...]
Important Notice: ****You must make your giveaway contest entries in the white Rafflecopter widget below the apple blossom pictures. That is the only way for us to track the entries. Entries in comments can not be tracked/counted.**** It's been a difficult week figuring out how to work things so I still have a tiny bit [...]
