Ok............So I'm not that great at keeping a blog, pretty lame actually. I checked and I did one post and set everything up, never came back. How crazy is that? So I'm lampworking full time now. I love it. I take the kids off in the morning, and then home and on the torch. I've been having loads of fun with it. I've started making head pins. They are pretty fun to make. I've been pretty busy with them actually. Here are some pics.
I have more, they are in my Etsy and Artfire shop. I know something wonderful can be made with them, maybe I'll catch some time to make up a pendant or some earrings later. I've also made a lot of beads this week.
My favorite is this set of floating pansies. You pull several stringers before you start your bead. You need a dark transparent color, I used Vennacia purple for these. I just love this purple, alone it is so dark it is almost black, but on white it is a deep transparent purple. I also pull me some opal stringer, it makes your petals look light and feathery. I used opal light pink. After you have your base bead made, you take your transparent stringer and make small dots in clusters of 3's and 4's leaving a little space between the dots so that when you melt them in , they won't make a blob. Then you take the opal stringer and make smaller dots and place them on the tip of the dots you've already made. Once you have applied all your dots, your ready to poke your flowers. I heat each cluster one at a time in the middle of the dots, then I take my tungsten poker and poke a deep hole, in the center. This causes the petal to draw in, plus once you heat it all back up it makes a pretty little bubble in the center of the flower. Once you are finished poking all your flower centers, heat the bead all the way through making sure you don't distort the shape. There you go! Floating Pansies!
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