Graduation Gift

I made this for a dear friend's daughter for her graduation from high school.  I am only two years late.  She is almost a junior in college now.  It is my design made from my own glass beads.  I am happy to say that she is delighted with it.  Took a lot of energy I didn't have to make it, but it was fun finishing it at last and giving it to her.  Do you like them?

Lampwork Beads

Guess what?  I sold some lampwork beads to someone other than Anita.  We went to the Holiday Craft Show sponsored by the East Ohio Lapidary Club.  Anita set up and I helped with the Chinese Auction.  Anita and one of the other club members talked me into selling some of my lampwork.  I didn't know what to charge, so instead of putting a price on each bead, I put sets into medicine cups.  The ones like the cups that come with NyQuil and cough syrups.  We decided on $10 per set.  I actually sold three sets today.  I didn't set up a table but used a small corner of Anita's.  Thank you, Anita,  I couldn't have done it without your help and encouragement.  She even made sure that people noticed them and then showed customers what she makes with my beads.  What a wonderful friend!

We are there again tomorrow.  Don't know if I will sell more, but was happy with just selling three.



Example of a set.



Another example

More Lampwork

These are all experimentations with different colors of glass.

 



Back To Being Me

After being out of touch with many of my friends who do not use facebook, I decided to start my blog again. I really missed many of them. What have I been doing? Nothing really. I still make my lampwork beads off and on. I get muscle spasms daily from my surgery last August so Dave made a rest on my lampworking table to alleviate some of the pain. Here are pictures of the table.

 

Front view of the hand and arm rest.

Side view of my workspace.

Here are some of my lampwork beads:

 

My jello bead