Market Day tomorrow and other Saturday fun!

Saturday is my day at the 104 Street Market. I have lots of new pendants!

In the evening, we are going to see a documentary film called Handmade Nation about the renaissance of artisan made stuff! There is also a sale event preceeding the film which I will mention here as well. But if are you planning to go, you must come to see me first downtown! I can't very well promote an event that I won't be at but this event is worthy! I have been to one of their sale events and they have a great variety of interesting work. Also, they support independent artists - you won' t find Tupperware or home party stuff here. This is at the Trans Alta Arts Barns 10330 - 84 Ave.

New items....

in Photo Album 2! Don't forget to use the zoom feature to see the beads up close.

Just a reminder, I will be at the 104 Street market this Saturday!

Change of Date and more events...

I will be at the 104 St. Market as listed below with one change. September 12 instead of September 26. I have also been added to the list of vendors at the August 15 Arts on the Avenue outdoor market which is 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. I will post more details when it gets closer to the date. Also September 25-26 at the Kaledio Festival, a 2 day outdoor event again with the Arts on the Avenue community. I have to tell you, every event I have particpated in with this group has been fantastic. So much more going on then just the sales venue!

I have posted some new pictures to Photo Album 2 and have yet to add some details of prices and measurements, etc.

Summer Market

The 104 Street Market 2009 season starts on May 16 and runs to October 10. I will be at the Aurora Borealis Fireflies tent on June 27, July 18, August 22, September 26 and October 10. The weekends that I am not there, there will be other glass beadmakers at the location as we will be rotating the Saturdays between 9 of us. There will be a good selection and a lot of variety since it will be different beadmakers every weekend.

The market runs from 9:00 a.m. to 3: oo p.m. rain or shine and is located on 104th Street North of Jasper Avenue. See http://www.city-market.ca/ for more info. It looks like it will be a lot of fun! Hope to see you!

Bloomin' Garden Show and Art Sale

I will have a table at this show and will be hoping to see a lot of familar and new faces at the show!

Here are some details. The sale is Saturday, May 9, 9:00 a.m to 3:00 p.m. at Alberta Avenue Community Centre 9210 - 118 Ave.

I participated in an Winter Festival event at this location with this group and it was so amazing! All of the events that took place aside from the artists venue. I still talk about how impressed I was with the music and the response from the public. Please come, you will have a great time!

Class with Trey Cornette

Beads I made in class. It was hard to decide which side of the bead to show you. They were really a lot of fun to make!

Here is a marble that Trey was making during the Thursday night demo at Bedrock.

Here is Trey demonstrating something with gusto. http://www.treycornette.com/

I bought a marble from him. It is the one in the bottom right corner. It is very cool!

Glass Craft Expo Las Vegas

Me and some fellow beadmakers went to Las Vegas to partake in a very beady event at the Glass Craft Expo at the Southpoint Hotel. (miles from everywhere exciting... oh well) The events and the classes and the trade show were terrific. I took a class with Leah Fairbanks http://www.leahfairbanks.com/ and loved it! She is well known for her beautiful floral beads but the class I took was sea and shore beads.

Here are some images of Vegas, the International Hotglass Invitational, and some beads of course. The Hotglass event was for teams of flame workers. This is different from lampwork which uses a much smaller torch and soft glass. The flame workers use really really big torches and work with borosilicate glass. They made some very interesting and some very awesome creations over the 2 nights the event took place. The results were revealved the next morning at the Exhibit hall.

Creation by Studio Anonymous (above) http://www.studioanonymous.com/

Creation by Onion Mountain (above)

A beautiful mermaid diving through the surf....

Hotglass team preparing gather for longest pull - they were hoping for a world record with a pull the length of a football field. Sadly, it did not happen.

Some very decadent things!

Dale Chilhuly's ceiling at the Bellagio

Below are beads made by me in class. The first is an aquarium bead with sea urchins, angel fish, jellyfish, seaweed and coral. I smudged the angel fish when I covered him with hot glass. Oops! Next time I'll try to avoid doing that. The 2nd picture is a little star shaped bead, then my fish and a pair of mermaids

Lovely Mermaid by Leah on the left, WWF Mermaid on the right by me!