Sunday, 15 August 2010

Lampwork Glass Bead Making

As you may or may not know there are 3 Purple Cows, Sarah, Kathy and myself (Louise).  We all make jewellery but most of it is different, but of course there are only so many designs you can come up with before some pieces may look similar, hence we are branching out...

As per my previous blog, you will know that I have got myself some precious metal clay (PMC) to make some jewellery, and Kathy has been on 2 lampwork glass bead making courses to enable her to make her own beads which we are all very excited about - as well as Kathy!  She did an introductory course and recently has completed a second course in which she began exploring different decorating techniques.  She has shown me the beads she made and they are brilliant - can't believe she hasn't been doing it for longer - I am sure it would have taken me more than 2 courses to have achieved what she did!!!

So, next step?  Well Kathy has to now clear out her utility room so that she can fit in a kiln, torch, glass rods etc so that she can then start making the beads with which to create more wonderful pieces (hopefully she will sell a few of her masterpieces to us!!!)

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