in progress… I’m looking forward to playing with my newest design today. Lampwork Beads “Wave”
I have been featured not once but twice in this fabulous treasury A Glint of Glass by Mimi of the lovely Hearty Felty ‘A glint of grass’ by mimioxborough Beautiful greens – like dry...
Yo Kylie.. What everyone needs first thing on a Wednesday morning is a little bit of Kylie looking fab and rocking in the early 90′s
Every now and again I buy a new notebook and pen to keep in the shed with every intention of writing down notes as I work, I usually manage one sometimes two sessions at best I signed up for an onlin...
Heather Trimlett is one of my favourite glass beadmakers… I love her use of colour, so bold and bright, her beads always make me smile, which is what beadmaking is all about for me. She has som...
I have mostly been playing with silver glass…. Aren’t they just fabulously shiny? I haven’t had much beading time of late, what with selling the house and all so it makes me very ha...
Only 24 hours left for my 10%discount and free shipping sale!
Get ‘em while they’re HOT! All lampwork beads in my Etsy shop LampworkJewels have been marked down by 10% and have free worldwide shipping For one week only!
A couple of years ago and after extensive research I bought a new kiln, it was and is a thing of beauty I loved my kiln but I didn’t realise for a while that it ran hot and I mean HOT. After a ...
A couple of weeks ago I celebrated my 10 year lampwork bead-versary, it really doesn’t seem that long but it is certainly true that “time flies when you’re having fun”. I have...
It’s been a while since I made any floral focal beads and even longer since I made one without cubic zirconia! This one has a transparent grey base with pure silver foil burnished on which fume...
I have been messin’ with the coding, just want to see if this works… HOORAY, yes it does, I can stop fiddling…. As you were!
I thought I was in for a sport free weekend but George got the satellite box working again by sheer force of will. Have a great weekend, if anyone needs me I will be in the shed
I posted a picture of my torch set up on FB and someone asked if I found the didymium screen better to use than glasses. The resounding answer is yes, but I spent a lot of money on things that didn&#...
My Primrose watercolour florals have been included in this lovely treasury. ‘lemonade in field of lavender’ by areiczyk Dreamy Cream Misty Earl… RiverOfRomansk $57.85 Gold lemon lav...
It’s Tuesday… we have an estate agent coming to value the house tomorrow, my lovely mother in law is arriving for a week on Thursday, as is my son, at the weekend it is Natalies birthday ...
This week I have mostly been making watercolour floral beads. Floral beads are what got me into lampworking originally and they have always been my favourite beads to make so it is wonderful to have ...
I am still putting my bead stock, and there is a LOT of it, into my etsy shop LampworkJewels but for the last week I have been making me some new beads -yay! Ignoring the etching debacle and trying t...
I have changed the name of my Etsy shop to LampworkJewels please adjust your bookmarks. Etsy does a 301 re-direct for about a month but that’s all, I will put JudithBeads in as a tag so I will ...
Look, Paula from Studio Paula on Etsy put my fairytale beads in this gorgeous treasury! I love these colors. Check it out… On the 2nd row down, one from the left – Golden Thread cookies w...
I have changed all my bead listings in my Etsy shop JudithBeads to provide FREE first class or standard airmail postage WORLDWIDE, oh yes! From now until I change my mind – Hooray! I probably w...
I hope you all had a fab weekend. I’m still tinkering about with the coding out back…. so in the meantime here is some music for you to listen to
of the etching debacle and here it is…. BEFORE ETCHING AFTER ETCHING and that is all I’m going to say about that!
In the end I decided to acid etch the water-colour floral beads because, well because I could. I would have had to get grit and other tumbling media to tumble etch them and I am far too impatient for...
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Yesterday I was feeling chinzy… I had an idea for some watercolour florals and I made some with the sole purpose of etching them. Now I loathe and detest certain bead making substances, enamels...
The reality of simplifying everything by taking the beads from my website shop and re-listing them on Etsy is of course that I have spent every waking minute of the last four days surrounded by beads...
Going back to my roots – yeah! The house is nearly finished and I need to focus and find my beadmaking groove again… to facilitate this I’m going simple… I will be listing al...
To celebrate the fact that the end is in sight to the house refurbishments I am having a short sale in my Etsy shop and my website shop. Type the code winterwarmer into the discount box at checkout i...
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