Ocean Lentils, Aqua Beads and Sparkling Pixiedust Pandora Spacers to Share

Lots of freshly listed goodies up on Etsy and Ebay this week.

I particularly like this set up top. It's made of half blue and half teal with sparkling green aventurine mixed in with the teal. The two colors are divided by waves of silvered ivory. These beads are pressed into lentils which are perfect for bracelets. This one is up on ebay



These ones are a bit similar. I think the warm weather this week was making me think of a soothing sparkling beach. These have been pressed into the nice lentil shape and made with cool aqua glass. They have stripes of metallic glasses that have been raked across the surface. These are always such a fun style. These are listed up on etsy.

Last beads I'll share with you today are these pixiedust spacers for Pandora bracelets.



These are perfect for if you just want a splash of sparkling color for your Pandora or Troll bracelet without breaking the bank. I've been making these in various summer colors with different colored pixie dust sparkles. These are all going up on Etsy and once these first sets sell, can be made to order.

Thanks for looking everyone! Talk to you next Friday.

Lampwork Beauties!

Lampwork Beauties!

Here's a new treasury I just made on etsy of some amazing lampwork beads by various artists.

New Webpage! For real this time!

So there's this massive gap in my postings because I started a new web page. Unfortunately I had a lot of troubles with the hosting provider and canceled my service.  Even more unfortunate, I forgot to back up my site. Ooops! So there's this 3 month gap of no posts. Even without my website troubles I'm horrible with updating my web site sometimes.

Now I do have a hosting provider that I'm a bit happier with, so it all worked out in the end.

Anyways, so welcome to my blog version 3. I'll be posting about what's new for sale in my Etsy store weekly or so, Occasional chatter about what's going on in my life, Some info about lampworking techniques and if there's any suggestions please let me know :) Thanks for stopping by.

Purple Pair with Green Metallic Scrolls

Fresh Beads up on Etsy :)

Propane Problems

Hey there everyone! Sorry there haven't been as many beads listed on Etsy the past few days. I've been having a fun (not really) struggle with my propane. It's been going on for a few days now and I finally just ordered some new parts.

It started on a cold snowy evening of -1 degrees out. I'm all ready to start torching! I get my boots on, my coat and scarf and head out to my backyard through the snow to turn on my propane. I go up and down the icy snowy porch steps, trudge through a foot of snow, get inside, take off my winterwear and head to the studio to get some work done.

I turn on the propane of my torch and I get nothing. Hmmmm...this can't be a good thing. I put my winterwear back on, trudge back through the snow to the propane tank to see that the gauge is on zero. I notice that the little arrow on the gauge is frozen and not moving. I carefully listen for the familiar sound of propane rushing into the hoses as I fiddle with the knobs. Nothing....sigh. My propane must be out. That sucks.

The next day, my husband brings home a fresh tank of propane for me and hooks everything up. Hooray! I'm ready for another night of torching. I go outside into the lovely Rochester winter wonderland (blech) and turn on the propane. It's not as cold today so the knob moves to its normal setting and life is good. I head back inside and to the studio to start torching away.

Everything's good for about an hour. Hmm....why's my flame getting huge and then tiny? I try to turn down the flame to apply some stringer and it turns into a giant bushy candle. I try to turn up the propane to reduce some silver glass and my flame almost dissapears. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here!

I've given up on making anything productive at this point. I shut everything off, go outside and take the regulator off the propane tank. Why is the needle on zero? It was on earlier. I've been making beads for an hour. I turn it off and dissconnect the hose and apparently the needle had gone so high that it went back around to zero. Ooops!

So anyways, my regulator is pretty much shot at this point. It has been cleaned out and then accidentally frozen to the tank because I didn't dry out all the water. I've cleaned it and left it on a heat vent for 24 hours and still nothing. My husband even took the entire thing apart and cleaned it up, but still nothing.

So I'm currently not able to torch and I'm waiting for a new regulator in the mail. Yuck!

Daily Deviation Hooray!

So yesterday I came home from my day job. I've been having a rough time with my day job lately. Yesterday was not much different. I came home exhausted from another day and started logging on to my etsy, DA, and other sites I promote my work on.

Whoa....that's a lot of messages! What did I do? Wow! A favorite every 5 minutes? What the hell did I do!?

It took me a little while to figure it out because I'm slow and my brain doesn't always function after work, but finally I did figure it out. I was the Daily Deviation for Monday January 25th! Thank you so much everyone who commented on my work. I hope you enjoy peeking at it. It really brightens my day.

Oh and be sure to visit PurpleRose on DA. She suggested my beads to be featured and I really appreciate it :)

An Overdue Update

Ok, I'm very overdue for a blog post. Especially since I think in one of my recent posts I said I'm going to update more. I lied apparently. Sorry about that :(

Anyways, I hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Years. Mine was good, but it sure sapped the energy out of me. I've been beading like a madwoman lately and then I hit a tiny wall in my photography and decided I needed a little break, so I took the weekend off. I feel like my batteries have been recharged and it is a great feeling. If you were wondering, I did figure out my little photograph issue. Yay!

I don't have a ton to write about at the moment, but I have the impress beadliner on order right now! When I get it, I'm hoping to show you guys what it's like. This tool has been out for a while, but when I was doing research on it, I couldn't find any pictures of it in use. Everyone says it is a great tool for the money. I'll let you know my observations on it. Just gotta wait for it to get here. I'm not very good at waiting.