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Posted in art, beads, business, creative process, lampworking, musings, sales, work, writing on Jan 30th, 2010
People who work at home know that one of the biggest challenges comes from people who cannot understand that the teleworker cannot drop anything at a moment’s notice and visit a friend or relative. Because housework does have a certain degree of flexibility (though the idea that it is somehow not “real work” is wrongheaded [...]
Posted in Four Tails Lampwork, beads, photography, sales on Mar 10th, 2009
What nobody ever tells you when you begin to post your beads or other crafts online is that you are going to have to become a photographer and a Photoshop or GIMP guru as well as a crafter, business person, marketer, and other related occupations. (No, I don’t know how to do all that gracefully; [...]
Posted in Four Tails Lampwork, bead sales, beads, etsy on Dec 28th, 2008
Yes, I have committed the ultimate blog sin: not updating for nearly a month. Mea maxima culpa. It was that whole Real Life thing–you know, having a full-time job that has seasonal busy spots–combined with not planning ahead appropriately for those busy spots. I’m sorry! What I am doing: spending Christmas at my sister’s house [...]
Posted in assignments, beads, creativity, slump on Nov 3rd, 2008
I continued with Gwacie’s assignments, and have dragged a couple of others into playing with me on The Glass Haven. Here’s the newest pictures: Gwacie’s assignments were these: Make the longest tube bead you have ever made, make the bead with the most colors you have ever used on a single bead, and make the [...]
Posted in beads, contest, eye candy, flame tree, holiday, sculpture on Oct 31st, 2008
I didn’t make many Halloween-themed beads this year–a few spiders and candy corn, but that was it. However, many other beadmakers did, including some of the amazingly talented Southern Flames beadmakers. You can see their work here, at Flame Tree Glass’s Halloween Contest page. There’s information on the main pane, and on the left there [...]
Posted in beads, experiments, orders, silver glass, slump on Oct 29th, 2008
Saturday was the first meeting of the Southern Flames lampworking group that I have been able to attend for a while. Meetings are most often on Wednesday nights, and very often I am teaching on Wednesday evenings. It was a fun meeting. During the meeting, we had a new visitor–Brad Shute of Striking Color. He [...]
I am in LOVE. With a torch. You’d think it silly, being this much in love with a torch that is technically a step down from the torch I have now, a Bethlehem Piranha. Dogmaw of Dogmaw Glass reviewed the Cricket, and when I saw that review I knew I had to try it. The [...]
Posted in bead release, beads, new product, review on Oct 13th, 2008
Finally I have gotten to try the bead release sample I was given at the Down the Street Bead Show by the owners of Forward Motion Arts. This is the release that they formulated specifically for higher humidity areas. Most of the releases out there are created in the inter-mountain West, where it is generally [...]
the Indie Craft Experience show here in Atlanta. Both Art of the Firebird and I are applying, but separately; the booth size is so small that we really can’t share a table. We do plan to put our tables together, though, so we can use the same credit card machine. They wanted some pictures, and [...]
Posted in Down the Street Bead Show, beads, peyote stitch on Oct 3rd, 2008
One of the things I value most about any conference or convention, whether it is in my professional field or my crafting field, is the serendipitous discovery of new ideas. I always come away exhausted (Dogmaw and I had drinks and dinner at O’Charley’s on the last night of the show, and were in bed [...]