Monday, September 24, 2007

Went to a wonderful glass gallery.

My daughter and I went to a wonderful glass gallery in Dallas called Kitrell-Rifkin. It was near the Galleria shopping center. Large and a huge display of some of the most amazing glass art I have ever seen! Blown glass, fused glass and stained glass. They have drawers and drawers of fantastic jewelry made by local artists. Then we went back to the workshop. It was really nice and the girl working there was so sweet. We bought some rods of Moretti and she made sure to point out all the new colors! People, glass is my addiction, lol! She gave us the class schedule and I am so excited, they have fusing glasses! My daughter and I had just gone to a bead show that morning to visit my bead friend Donna at her booth. Her fused pendants just pop with color! Ryan kept saying "I have got to learn to do that!". Now is our chance. Maybe soon you'll see some fused beads on my website, maybe even some from Ryan. We're taking the fused plate glass so I'll post pics when we are done.

Happy Beading!

Patricia

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Not quite up to speed yet.

I'm tired of being sick and I'm sure you're tired of hearing me complain about it. I have new glasses to try this weekend. I've got some new Double Helix Psyche! What a cool glass! Beautiful rainbow colors. Transparent swirly blue and purple rainbows. I hope to have a set of those up this weekend on Ebay. I also have some more silver blue from recycledartglass.com! I also got some of their (not so cheap) silver clear. I am anxious to see what that does. Maybe I can get it to reduce to metallic now that my bead friend Donna (Dancing Light Jewelry) has given me some great reducing tips! The people I have met since joining Grapevine Beadmakers are just the best bunch of people. I have learned so much from them. We have a new group Ebay auction up. Please check it out. It is under cgbeads. Don't forget I still have beads up on Etsy (CalamitysClan) and my website.

Have a great weekend!

Patricia

Friday, September 7, 2007

New focals on my website!

I'm finally among the living, I think. I have several new sets on Ebay including a new, very cool, set called Recycled Glass Art. There is a group on http://www.recycledartglass.com/ that take old glass pieces and recycle them into usable glass called frit. So I took recycled Silver Blue frit and lots of fine silver foil and added those to a base of Moretti Copper Green. Reducing allowed the silver in the frit to really pop. I love the effect and I really like the idea of recycling old glass into new pieces of art. I have a few coldworked focals on http://www.beadartists.org/ and some sets still up on etsy. I am so exciting to have moved up the ranks in the top 100 of http://www.beadartists.org/. I am number 66 today!

The other exciting thing that I have done is get some beads actually for sale on my website! Ta da! OK it's only a couple focals but I'm excited. Rather than let a stash build up for an orphan sale I am offering focals for $10.00! Focals plus two spacers $15.00! As a jewelry maker I think I would be excited not to have to buy big expensive bead sets. Lots of different focals for lots of different pieces.