Spot the gooseberry!  I had an idea to make some fruity beads and would like to make more and possibly etch them and put together in a bracelet. The one with white and blue flowers is using millefiore.  
The little lady is another idea I'd like to persue maybe as Goddess beads.
the two purpley beads are using opal lavender (I think!), Gelly's Sty pink, and intense black.  The black webs with the pink but not the lavender.

The Carleton Place Bridge St. Bazaar is this coming Saturday so I've been busy getting necklaces and earrings together for it.  I just had an order of Swarovski crystals arrive and I plan on using them in a few things too.

I stopped by David Paterson's today and am delighted as two or three of my beads have sold!

It is official, I now have beads on display at David Paterson's Glassblowing Studio in Merrickville, (my beads aren't on his site, but you'll see the kind of work he does)



I put a display stand together to hold some single beads on cords, and have also submitted some necklaces to The Grotto, I think they prefer to be the exclusive location in Merrickville for their artists so I've made sure that I have offered them items with multiple beads that are more complicated and only showing single beads at David's.  

Here are a sample, put together with help from my David who 
thinks of mixing things that I wouldn't!









I want to try and get some listings in my Etsy shop and see if anything comes of that and will also be on the look out for any other possible locations, maybe Carleton Place or Almonte.

So, I have not been idle, even though I've been quiet!

My beads are annealed and I'm thrilled as I only lost about three of them to cracking.  Now I've started making some simple necklaces and have to get some things ready to present to the Gallery.  Also David Paterson the glass blower who does the annealing for me wants me to stop by and talk about my face beads, perhaps he'll put some in his studio I don't know.


Adding murrini to the beads is fun and I'm still experimenting with that.

Here's the necklace I'm wearing right now, a cute little lady at the cash in Dollarama said she really liked it and made my day :o)



This necklace was put together by my good friend Carole Nelson and myself, she wanted it for her Daughter-in-Law, and I do hope Dacia likes it.

Yesterday was fun at the torch!!  I am starting to understand how the size and placement of the dots can create different patterns - sounds obvious right?  Not so, my green and black bead in this picture has tiny white rectangles between the big dots, I was thrilled when this happened.  It's all about how the glass spreads and I can't wait to get back to try more things.

A couple of these have murrini in them, I want to have another go at that too, I melted it in a little too much, and placed clear over top of one of them, which I have decided I should have done at an earlier stage to make sure I covered the whole piece.

I also used some violet yesterday and got a silver reaction onthe top right bead that I'm having a hard time trying to replicate.

I have a HUGE pile of beads waiting to be annealed, I hope to get them done this week.  It's hard to bite the bullet and tell myself 'do it!', because I keep wanting to add more beads to the pile!!  These are spacers I made last week to help me put some bigger beads together in necklaces.



A couple of pairs of earrings, putting jewellery together does not come as easy as making the beads!




These are made with Kumihimo weaving, it's done using a circular board with a hole through the middle and many notches around the outside.  I'm thinking of hanging pendants from these.



Definitely still dot-addicted, infact I feel a torching session coming on as I write this :o)



More dots, dots, dots - the green one in the middle is actually very pretty, the picture doesn't do it justice.  It sparkles and looks almost like it has facets, I'll try some more of those in different colours.