The glass journey continues

I haven't posted in awhile. The glass has me in a trance. I just got some new silvered glass and it is so beautiful when done right. I finally had an ahhaa moment yesterday with something someone else said about how they reduce their silver glass. Couldn't wait to get down there today and try it. It worked!!! I made my first reduced encased silver bead. The new Double Helix glass Triton with a little Psyche thrown in just for fun on the surface. Truly amazing. (it's the blue one) The second one is a Vetrofond Odd glass called Lichen that I added some Triton dots to. Interesting how different Triton can look depending on what glass it is placed on top of. The third photo is a drippy heart with Triton in the center. I have included two photos of it because the sides of the heart are completely metallic. The sheen is amazing, I tried to capture it, not sure that I did a very good job. You will just have to try it yourself.

Lavendar Skies - where the journey takes me

Lavendar Skies
Originally uploaded by cserpentDesigns

I was pared up with cserpentdesigns a jewelry artist on Etsy who made this wonderful bracelet with the my beads. We won the challenge and the bracelet is on sale at www.host.etsy.com (the Helping others Street Team). Go check it out along with all the other submissions from the challenge.

Etsy Bead Challenge

pink desert1
Originally uploaded by fiber-glass-polyclay-thejourney

As a member of the Creative Glass Guild of Etsy we were challenged with creating a set of beads for one of the jewelry artist on Etsy to make into a piece of jewelry. Here was my submission for the challenge.

Journey to pigdome

Almost forgot about the pigs.....I have a friend that has a thing for pigs (such a long crazy story that I won't bore you). I promised him that I would try to make a pig bead for him. The first try was abysmal. The second not so bad. I am going to do one more eventually so he will have the three little pigs. Here are the first two.

The lampwork journey

Boy, I've been so busy sitting at the torch that I haven't had time to update my blog. I could post photos forever. What to show you. I spend my freetime over on YouTube watching lampwork videos. Here are some new beads that I've made lately, they are all up at my Etsy shop for sale.