Ta dah....

Well, if you haven't already guessed I am just a little bit pleased with my efforts from making beads with Laura Sparling last week. Typical me there was lots of blue glass being used :)

Oh and then I had a bit of a roll and made a set of fritties.....I can't wait to hold them in my hands and see how even they are in size as I kind of guessed that, but for a first attempt I think the girl did good. Now all I have to do is make some jewellery with them - at the moment that may take much longer than the bead making did!

So, the big question - do I want to make more lampwork beads. I would love to, but I think space and more importantly time are at a minimum at the moment. However, if anyone is willing to rent me time at the torch nearby I won't be saying no :)

Ta dah....

Well, if you haven't already guessed I am just a little bit pleased with my efforts from making beads with Laura Sparling last week. Typical me there was lots of blue glass being used :)

Oh and then I had a bit of a roll and made a set of fritties.....I can't wait to hold them in my hands and see how even they are in size as I kind of guessed that, but for a first attempt I think the girl did good. Now all I have to do is make some jewellery with them - at the moment that may take much longer than the bead making did!

So, the big question - do I want to make more lampwork beads. I would love to, but I think space and more importantly time are at a minimum at the moment. However, if anyone is willing to rent me time at the torch nearby I won't be saying no :)

Me making beads

He he, I almost look like I know what I am doing :)

Photos of the beads to follow later this eve.....

Me making beads

He he, I almost look like I know what I am doing :)

Photos of the beads to follow later this eve.....

Flaming hot hot hot....

Yesterday I had a fantastic day melting glass with the very talented Laura Sparling. I feel sorry for my hubby as I think I may be a little bit (just a little bit) hooked :) I had to laugh though, I came home and showed him one of Laura's cupcakes and all I got was "did you make that?" as if!

Pics to follow soon hopefully of some gorgeous frit beads - my flowers however leave a little to be desired but for a first time I think I did ok. As they say watch this blog.....

Flaming hot hot hot....

Yesterday I had a fantastic day melting glass with the very talented Laura Sparling. I feel sorry for my hubby as I think I may be a little bit (just a little bit) hooked :) I had to laugh though, I came home and showed him one of Laura's cupcakes and all I got was "did you make that?" as if!

Pics to follow soon hopefully of some gorgeous frit beads - my flowers however leave a little to be desired but for a first time I think I did ok. As they say watch this blog.....

Jewellery Envy

Just because you make your own jewellery doesn't mean you don't swoon over other peoples pieces, buy other peoples pieces and in my case be envious of other peoples abilities. Alison at Ali Bali Jewellery is one of those such people. I am very envious of her skills using precious metal clay (PMC). I think the heart pendant above is just simply gorgeous, I just love the pattern she has used. I tried PMC a few years ago now and to say the least, my attempts were really rather bad. Maybe one day I will try again and have better luck? - who knows. For now I will just have to be envious of the skills of others. This is another piece of hers I just love - delicate flower charms in my kind of colours :)If you want to see more of Alison's gorgeous pieces you can find her here - enjoy having a good look around.

http://www.alibalijewellery.blogspot.com/
http://www.alibalijewellery.etsy.com/
http://www.alibalijewellery.folksy.com/
www.en.dawanda.com/shop/alibalijewellery

Jewellery Envy

Just because you make your own jewellery doesn't mean you don't swoon over other peoples pieces, buy other peoples pieces and in my case be envious of other peoples abilities. Alison at Ali Bali Jewellery is one of those such people. I am very envious of her skills using precious metal clay (PMC). I think the heart pendant above is just simply gorgeous, I just love the pattern she has used. I tried PMC a few years ago now and to say the least, my attempts were really rather bad. Maybe one day I will try again and have better luck? - who knows. For now I will just have to be envious of the skills of others. This is another piece of hers I just love - delicate flower charms in my kind of colours :)If you want to see more of Alison's gorgeous pieces you can find her here - enjoy having a good look around.

http://www.alibalijewellery.blogspot.com/
http://www.alibalijewellery.etsy.com/
http://www.alibalijewellery.folksy.com/
www.en.dawanda.com/shop/alibalijewellery

Folksy

The past few days I have added a few more items to my Folksy shop. This is the first external selling shop I have tried so I am hoping it goes well. There are some gorgeous hand crafted items on there so if you haven't checked it out I would thoroughly recommend a look.

For those of you on Folksy, please let me know. I have been trying to find you to add your shop to my favourites, but I am limited in search time - there are so many other things that need doing LOL, plus keep getting waylaid looking at all the other gorgeous offerings.

So if you on Folksy please let me know and I will go check out your shop.

Folksy

The past few days I have added a few more items to my Folksy shop. This is the first external selling shop I have tried so I am hoping it goes well. There are some gorgeous hand crafted items on there so if you haven't checked it out I would thoroughly recommend a look.

For those of you on Folksy, please let me know. I have been trying to find you to add your shop to my favourites, but I am limited in search time - there are so many other things that need doing LOL, plus keep getting waylaid looking at all the other gorgeous offerings.

So if you on Folksy please let me know and I will go check out your shop.