lampwork beads made by me in my home studio


lampwork beads made by me in my home studio and jewerly made with
fine silver, sterling silver, crystals, pearls and other lovely findings


Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Class with Lisa St. Martin

Lisa St. Martin specializes in sparkle! It was so much fun learning new ways of incorporating dichro, silver, copper and even copper dish scubbies. Lisa is always thinking about different ways to work with metals. We fumed with gold and apparently I have to practice this since none of my beads got anything more then a pink hue. This is good, but I wanted to see the golden glow.

These pictured above are made by Lisa. Check out the sparkle on the right! This bead was subdued compared to some others she had that were over the top dripping dichro. Too much fun! I absolutely love the Carribean blue hue of the sculptured vessel on the left.

These are the beads I made. Hmmm, gotta get a little more sparkle and wow going. I was really pleased with my beads and now want to play with all of the dichro I bought. Yikes!

Class with Michael Barley


The first picture are beads that I made in the class.... Okay, it is a little stressful and remember Rome was not built in a day. Must practice.

The following are some beads made by Michael. The one on the choker I bought and the 2nd one aquired by luck. Michael raffles all his demo beads at the end of class. I'm so lucky to have won the Leaf bead!
Here is Michael actually making the Leaf Bead I won.

This was the beginning of 2 weekends of intense classes with bead makers of renown and unique style.
Michael Barley from Port Townsend was in Edmonton for 6 days of classes. Wow! 2 days per session, 10 students each session. He must have been exhausted by end of day 6 and happy to be on his way home. Michael, we were so blown away by your generousity in sharing so many of your techniques and ideas. Thank you thank you thank you!