Here I am still beading away. I just had my one year anniversary, and this beading thing has been really good to me. Many thanks to my steady stream of loyal customers.
Recently the Bull Dog Rescue of Long Island came out with an exclusive bead, designed and made by me, for a fund raiser.
The beads are all made one at a time by hand, in my basement studio. I use a Minor Torch to melt the glass rods. The torch uses propane and oxygen from an oxygen concentrator.
Subsequently the beads are slowly cooled to prevent them from cracking. After that, I inspect them, and clean them with a Dremel tool. And when they come out really beautiful, I will try and sell them on eBay or Etsy. You can find a link to my auctions under Services.
I make different kinds of beads, like the one on this page for example is a Pandora bead.
Sometimes I make the beads into jewelry. In addition to the lampwork beads I use handcrafted silver beads, imported directly from Bali, Indonesia. Usually I add some Swarovski crystals for extra lustre. I use 49 strand Beadalon bead wire to string the jewelry so that it will last for a long, long time.
Then there are sets of beads in different sizes and shapes. At last, but for sure not least, are the focal beads, they are big and bold, sometimes to be combined with a set and sometimes solo.
