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Live Bead Demo on Livestream Sunday 2pm CST
Last week was our first Livestream murrina demo. Greg made a butterfly murrina cane and I hosted in the chat area answering questions and/or relaying questions to him to address.
This week I will be making a murrine ring focal and Greg will be hosting chat. Don’t forget 2pm Sunday CST. That’s 12 pm pacific, 1pm mountain, and 3pm eastern. In this demo you’ll get to see how I encase with minimal bubbles and without smearing. Hope to see you there. The chat feature is really cool and mucho fun.
http://www.livestream.com/chasedesigns
99 cent Friday!
There is a first time for everything! It’s a dragon bead on 99 cent auction day.
99 cent Friday!
I just love this bead. Ocean Currents.
Brew'in up a few Witches
This months Ornament Thursday topic is Brew. So I brewed up a few witches for your viewing pleasure. Glass witches that is. I want to share with you how I started on my journey of witches. I asked my girlfriends to brain storm with me on new ideas for sculptural beads. They came up with a range of things, none of them sticking to my creative side. Then one of them put “witch” out there.
At the time I was pretty young in my lampworking days and just didn’t know how I would go about making such a piece in glass. So I searched for tutorials on one of my favorite lampworking sites lampwork Etc. I didn’t find a witch, but I did find a goddess tutorial by Sarah J Schalken.
I studied her tutorial and spent about three days working on my new witch design, and suddenly she was born. An excellent example of taking someone elses instruction and making it your own.
See all the other Ornament Thursday particiapnats here:
Art Bead Scene
Jennifer’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Bracelet
BeadStyle & Milwaukee’s heritage
Linda shares her Amber Bock Bracelet
Cindy Gimbrone aka Lampwork Diva
New Beads are Brewing…
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble…
Joolz by Lisa has a “Hairy” Twist on OT Brew
It’s not easy being green
Michelle yearns to be the Wicked Witch of the West – we think she’s hit pay dirt here.
Strands of Beads
Something wicked is brewing at Melissa’s place
Swelldesigner
Alexa stirs it up with this retro witch wall hanging!
99 cent Tuesday!
I haven’t made these for a while. Fairy Wings.