Completed Bead Projects in Less than Two Hours!

Here's a list of shops that carry my beads (updated 02may05)

Glassbeads_mini ---aka minihollows---currently includes mini-stripies and mini-soapbubbles. Updated 27may08.

Collection of 2008 heart bead posts. Updated May08.

This category gets updated fairly regularly, as I've been making abstracts pretty consistently ever since I discovered thompson enamels. Last update of the index: 12apr08.

assorted 2007 glassbeads, esp. those not in usual categories, including some curliQs, bigholes, raked fire and ice, assorted earthtone, and sculptural heads.

I've updated the dottie page a little, 16mar04; newest post 09oct07

Includes solid dichros, (small designer beads of a small dichro-on-black cylinder cased in clear), jacketed dichro, and big gaudy dichro focals.

A return to an old idea---my earliest hollow style of bead, a plain transparent hollow, aka the `soap bubble',. Originally posted 20jan07

Oh, those fugly, fugly beads.... Includes the new (12apr08) top-level Friday Fugly directory, which is where I plan to put this stuff now.

Stripey beads. Now a subindex page including three sets of links---mini-stripeys; howto pages ; and the original 03 stripeys; created 29aug06

pixie rounds 14oct06

Three files, originally posted 19dec05, 29aug06, and 06oct06 currently comprise the tessellation/twisted-dot subindex, created 29aug06

A variety of floral vase beads Last updated 30aug06.

Series of designer beads in soft pastel colors made in bullseye; Conceived as a series, these include mostly curliQs, with a few dotties, and gravity swirls to round out the collection. posts created and uploaded during Jan 2006, of beads made in dec 2005.

An unusual series of beads, inpsired by the roughness and iridescence of ancient roman glass. 29nov05. See also this necklace originally posted 19jul06 which includes similar beads made of plate glass.

Though more recently made than the antique curliQs, these opaque antiques made with translucent opalino and alabastro glass got posted first, around 07may05

Some of my new stringing projects include my glass beads; Page and I also have collaborated on projects using glass beads I've made. The new (jun05) Glass Directory shows nonbead glass objects.

I've created a new directory for bead trades and posted a bunch of beads I've traded for, though not all of them! Yet... Yummy new beads added, 03mar05. The Other Artist gallery, which includes all sorts of work, still needs to have its index page created 24aug05

Index of links about seed bead coating tests; a short history of my experiences using thompson enamel 7000/8000 series on bullseye; a listing of metallic type and increasing content in boro glasses from Jesse Kohl of Northstar; and a mostly self-indulgent list of goodies from 2005 Gathering that does have one useful tip for marking rods.

howto page: cleaning & dressing beads; photographing beads & jewelry; florals (subindex page, includes 3 posts); hollow beads; striking silver pink ; solid dichros; 3 methods for making multicolored rods for stripes, one of which is discussed in detail. Also included is a discussion and gallery of the Creative Play Group 100 bead exercise and related posts.

Since I now use my studio space primarily for making beads, this link will take you to an index of my various studio pages---link added 23aug05

I belong to GlassAct251, a glass bead guild. Check out some my fellow beadmakers' work by clicking on the member sites link.