Cabochons!

Hey everyone! :) Happy Wednesday!

Jason's been working on some off mandrel cabochons, which are turning out awesome!

The cabs shown are all available in our Etsy shop, and Jason also just made some mini ones on Monday! Here's a quick shot after they came out of the kiln. They will be listed in packs of 3 or 4 most likely.



-Andrea

Galaxy Pendant Give Away!!!

Hey everyone! To celebrate our 500th Etsy sale, we're giving away one of Jason's Galaxy Pendants! :) The pendant is black, with six mini "storm" galaxies, a technique by Amy Kinsch, and five fine silvered ivory dots. Each galaxy dot has tons of depth, and swirling silver glass.

All you have to do to be entered in the drawing is leave a comment! We be drawing the name of the winner at 8:00PM EST on Monday February 14th! :)

-Andrea

Breaking Out of My Comfort Zone

I'm trying to push myself and my beads more since I'm full time again! I've revisited encased florals, which are a little stressful, but the end result is totally worth it!

This bead has a light turquoise/transparent purple/dark red twisted stringer base, encased with clear. There are layers of soft blue flowers, and Double Helix silver glass dots on the surface.

I've also decided to cut loose and not only make beads that I know will turn out good. The beads below are an example of me just having fun, and they turned out awesome!

This crunch bead has a light turquoise base, with orange dots, encased with clear. There are layers of my handpulled murrini, as well as murrini and subtle orange stringer designs on the surface.

This crunch bead has a black (which is really a dark transparent purple as you can see in some spots) base, with white dots that have been poked and capped with transparent aqua glass. The bead is encased with clear, and has three raised Double Helix silver glass dots on each side.

I pulled a new murrini cane too! The photo below shows a coral crunch bead with three of the new murrini that have been twisted together-fun!

-Andrea

New Beads! Yay!

I'm back to lampwork full time now! :) To celebrate, I made some cheerful Spring inspired encased crunch beads! I used our handpulled twisties, and some of my murrini (okay well a lot of my murrini). These were very relaxing to make, and I have some that just came out of the kiln from yesterday waiting to be cleaned and photographed! All are available in our Etsy shop

Spring

Spring II

Robin's Egg

Thanks for looking, and have a great Tuesday afternoon! :)
-Andrea

Tons of New Sets!

We've both been trying to make more sets lately, so here they are! We also have several made to order sets available in our Etsy shop!

Party

Chestnut Pebbles

Mosaic

Rain Drops

Ancient Baubles

Bright Pebbles

Islands

Yellow Spacecraft

Also, we are 4 sales away from our 500th Etsy sale! Purchase the 500th item from our shop, and receive 15% off of your entire order! :)
-Andrea

Double Helix Sets!

Hey everyone! :) We got lots and lots of silver glass in last week - so I have a few sets to show! Both are on Etsy, and more to come soon! Let us know what you think, we're having lots of fun with these new colors!

Thanks for a great year!!

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in a while-things have been crazy this holiday season! :) I just want to thank everyone who supported us in 2010, we appreciate it! We're charging into the New Year, with lots of listings on Etsy, eBay, a new shop layout at the studio, and tons of lampwork classes available.

Here's a sneak peak of some new designs! :) They will soon be available on Etsy, at the studio, and of course at the Farmer's Markets this spring/summer!

More to come!
Andrea