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Wired Designs – Class Scedule

If you’re in the San Antonio area of Texas and are looking for a long list of fun things to do go to Wired Designs. Check out their list of their upcoming classes. So much fun! So much to do!…

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Torch Bugs – A Forum full of Glass Bead Making Tutorials

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I’m looking for tutorials. I found Torch Bugs. And I actually found something I want to make. It’s the wig wag twistie to decorate with. Sarah Hornik has perfected this and who contributed to the tutorial but Sarah herself. So cool.…

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Call For Glass Artists – Fallbrook Art Center

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Day One at CHA – Cool Glass and Stuff for Glass

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Today I spent half a day at CHA. Did my demo of macramé to promote my book, Mod Knots and then wandered around about half the show. I had a pressing engagement and had to run early but I’m returning…

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The Flow – 5th Annual Gallery of Women in Glass

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JC Herrell – These Beads and Marbles are Fantastic!!

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Let’s just start this post with JC’s description of the beads she’s making…”Stringer intensive tube beads inspired by the prairie designs of Frank Lloyd Wright. Built on transparent colors and shaped into short, thick tubes these lines design are great…

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Contemporary Lampworking Volume III

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It’s in production!!! Contemporary Lampworking Volume III by Bandu Dunham. This is pretty exciting stuff if you’re a lampworker…you know a torchworker…you like to play with fire and glass. It’s been years since the second volume came out so I really…

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New Issue of Glass Line Full of Tutorials

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I’ll start this post with a huge disclaimer. I’m in this issue of Glass Line with my Rose Skull Glass Bead Tutorial. Yay! But there’s so much more in this issue…it’s not just about me. There are boro tutorials and a…

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Coloraddiction…Lampwork Bead Making Tutorials

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I was looking for interesting places to find bead making tutorials and came across this web site…Coloraddiction that a collabloration between Kimberly Affleck and Kandice Seeber. What a cool site!! They provide glass bead making tutorials for the beginner through the…

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What Do You Do With Glass?

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P1130715 My passion is glass. I melt it and form it into cute beads…pretty beads…sometimes beads that blow my mind. I also fuse glass into objects…functional art. A sink…a lamp…plates and bowls. Then there’s mosaic. Bits of glass and tiles adhered…

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Tips and tricks for using silver glass.

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working silver glass

Silver glass is all the rage these days in glass beadmaking. From the picture above you might understand why. The glass is very expensive due to its high silver content that gives the glass its color. It also can be…

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How to make glass butterfly beads.

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glass butterfly beads

Lampworker Marcy Lamberson highlights the butterfly beads of Robert Simmons on her blog. Robert is the Director of Bead Donations for Beads of Courage, an organization that provides arts in medicine to children and families coping with serious illness.

In the…

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Learn about dichroic glass.

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pat frantz dichroic glass bead

Pat Frantz, who has a video on working with dichroic glass, shares some of her tips in the Frantz Art Glass Newsletter. Learn how to avoid getting scum in your glass and how to achieve watercolor effects.

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Win a Kerri Fuhr Glass Bead eTutorial

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The Creative Process

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belvedere beads blog

If any of you read Watch Me Create, the team blog that I manage and write for, it is no surprise to you that I love hearing about artist’s creative processes. Ranking right up there at the top of my…

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