Decorating

We found a sweet computer desk by the dumpster recently and decorated it with some of my paperweights.

Thanks for looking!

Jason

Paperweights on Wooden Stands

I've been having a lot of fun making paperweights and wooden stands lately. The darker stands were made by my dad, however I will be picking up some darker stain later today :) I have a bunch of paperweights that are just waiting for the stands, so once those are done I will make another entry with those :) 

 

 

 

 

Reversed Snakeskin

I've been wanting to add silver foil to my snakeskin beads but I couldn't figure out how to add them to individual dots. Then I was reading a tutorial in The Flow magazine for a different technique but it hit me to do lines instead of dots! Here is the outcome :D

Organic Snakeskin

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Jason

Catch of the Day!

Don't forget to check out our new facebook page to see our beads fresh out of the kiln in our "Catch of the Day" photos :)

"Catch of the Day" beads from Feb 24, 2012

 

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Jason

Geometric Artifact Part I

Here is some beads from a series I am working on

Geometric Artifact

 

Geometric Artifact II

 

 

Geometric Artifact III

 

 Geometric Artifact IV

Thanks for looking :)

Jason

Snakeskin

I have been going back on some old designs lately and this was one of my favorites to work on :)

Jason

Dreaming of Spring!

It seems like spring is on Andrea's mind :) Maybe with the mild winter everyone seems to be having there will be some real flowers soon!

 

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Jason

Lots Of Dots!

I have been trying to get back into the grove of torching and dots have been calling my name lately. These are from some recent torch sessions :)

Thanks for looking! :)

Jason

Goldbracelets

We added a few ways to get a discount on our Etsy shop and one was to post pictures of finished jewelry using our beads. Phyllis Martin from Goldbracelets.etsy.com posted a few gorgeous gold bracelets using some of our beads :) Her descriptions can be read here. I love the look of them all, the second one is my favorite and love how the opal yellow goes nice with the gold.





Jason

Our Pendants Reviewed

Check out this review on our pendants and also a chance to win a FREE pendant!!!!


http://singlemama-reviewcorner.blogspot.com/2010/04/powers-art-glass-review-and-giveaway.html

More marbles

AHHH I'm in love with soft glass marbles! So much easier to work silver glass with limited oxygen. Also can get decent sizes with only one concentrator. With boro I'd have two concentrators but seemed to take forever to get a decent size marble made. I just fixed this marble yesterday, I was surprised that this size marble could be fixed since it was soft glass but I had no problem reheating it in the flame. Anywho here is the marble.

Soft Glass Marbles

Wednesday I ended up making one soft glass marble that turned out great but had a flat spot where the final punty was. Yesterday I didn't have much time on the torch but I was determined to make a perfect soft glass marble. I made four total, one had a mark that almost looked like a chip came off the marble so I wirewrapped it for myself :) It was a nice organic one with silver leaf on it. I was surprised I did so well with soft glass marbles since I like to use a lot of heat and thought boro would be easier because of that. It turns out the soft glass ones took quite a bit less time to shape.

I am starting to wirewrap some of my old boro marbles that have been sitting waiting to be listed online. Those will start to be listed on the upcycled copper Etsy now.

Here's my soft glass marbles from yesterday (only two out of the four)

Wire Jig

Our packages came in Tuesday and I am loving using the wire jig! Here are a few of the beads/buttons pendants I've made (middle one just sold and is our first sale!!). More on our new etsy upcycledcopper.etsy.com :)

New Etsy

I don't have a picture of the copper bracelet that I said I would post because our wire straighteners are coming in today so I figured I would show the one I make next that is a better quality. We opened up a new etsy shop, www.upcycledcopper.etsy.com It has only copper wire pendants with lampwork beads so far but will have much more variety soon. We ordered a tumbler so going to put our stained glass/fusing glass scrap in the tumbler and then make some home decor items. Probably also get some earrings and rings up but that won't be right away.

We placed a few different orders lately so waiting on a bunch of new exciting things :) From Arrow Springs we got some puffy mandrels, adventurine and a JC sifter with coil actuator. From Rings and Things we got some greek beads, wire wrapping jig, wire straightener, ring sizer and ring mandrel. From Monsterslayer we got sterling silver wire, sterling beads and the tumbler. The Arrow Springs order got delayed and should be in today along with the Rings and Things order :) It's so fun getting new stuff to play with :)

Here's a few of the copper pendants in our new shop