gallery archive 10

[★★Terri★★]

For the first time of showing - my efforts at lampworking. 

I use a hothead with propane and had a two hour tutorial with Saffie last year.  Not been able to get to my torch as much as I would have like until last week.  Now have got about 4 hours under my belt.  Have tried various techinques including encasing and some flowers from a tutorial in the current issue of Making Jewellery magazine.







Please give me some feedback - especially on encasing 'coz I can't seen to get a pucker when I encase.


I am also making ceramic and faience beads.  Faience is an ancient material used by the Egyptians for bead making.  Lots of experimenting going on at present - which is all being recorded in my blog.

Terri x

[Clare Scott]

Made these today....



.... but they`ve both got hairline cracks... booo...

Think I was a little inspired after the GBUK meetup @ Tuffnell Glass on Saturday where we blew baubles   Cheers Martin!

[Yellow friend]

Some spring flowers - for Mothers Day

[Ciel]

It's clio glass with sterling silver and blue greek leather - I quite like this glass   I'm going to have to part with it though (I have too many necklaces already!)

[Trudi]

some one's been watching too much lambing live

LOL - loving this thread!!! Sucha diverse aray of beads - and colours!

I had that song Tie A Yellow Ribbon in my head earlier this week - don't ask me why! Then I heard it on Chris Evans .... twas a sign, so I had to make these:





Think I need some warmth & sunshine! 

[mariag]

Lovely set Helen
Manda those are stunning
Sally, I really love your colour combos

Something of a rarity for me, I don't usually post (in awe of the talent on here )

This bracelet is a project for my Alternative Jewellery course, the brief was using found or recycled materials.
I used a sherry bottle & a mineral water bottle & some of the beads have Beady Sam's gorgeous Monet frit.
I also added a button from my collection to finish it off.
(Sorry for the poor photo, the light was rubbish here today!!)

[Dee Dee]

Another fab show and tell!  Particularly love Manda's fairy tales and Trudi's bright yellows - so sunny!  Just a couple from me....

[Nikki]

Haven't posted picture for ages.

[polynana]

Brilliant tiger beads.
those tiny tiny pmc charms are cute.
Colette I love the wiggle beads especially this one

Trudi your yellow daisy focal is gorgeous
The long tube focals of Sally's are great colours

and I love these beads, so bright and cheerful

[SueP]

Just posting my latest offerings - there has been some lovely beads this week - too many to mention - but I do like the yellow ribbons





Bit of a shard fest - but they are Jolene's

[Tracy]

yea I have some thing to show. mojo has been lacking recently   


Sorry to hog  just had to show Jolene's shards...I think it came out ok   

[Sarah]

No need to be nervous Vicki - those are beautiful. And as great minds thought alike I'll add mine here

I've been separated from my torch for a while but we were reunited on Saturday 

 

Sarah
xxx

[Ilona]

Wow what great beadies so far I agree one show and tell is better.

I am hooked on the florals, so sorry for hogging

[SilverGems89]

So Vicki has told us we newbies have to have a go at posting in this scary big girls thread from now on  
Since my beads are sooooo newbie-ish and rubbish i thought i would go for it in the effort to make some of the other newbies feel better!  

So this my collection of BHB's so far, the centre 3 and faux boro one on the left are the most recent, it seemed to really "click" my last session and they turned out great (or i think so  ) and the HUGE faux boro one on the right was my first go at faux boro and encasing, hence it ended up so massive!

And this ones just a close up of the big faux boro one to show its colours a bit better, i love this bead! but my dad has already claimed it  

pleeeeeease be nice  

[Ciel]

Like the faux boro bead - the others are great too!  Here is my contributions.  Need to practice my dotty stringer work