|
This was my first complete year of lampworking. No classes yet, and still only getting about 8 hours of torch time per month, but still practicing!!!
Back to Parent Page:  Iron Mountain Jewelry
|
For Christmas this year my DH got a 10amp rectifier for me, and a 1000cc pyrex beaker with a nice long handle. I couldn't wait to play!!! However, I needed to gather together the rest of the materials...
As soon as the rest of the materials, solutions, paint, etc, are all gathered nicely together I'm still too darn tired after getting out of the patient side of the hospital to do anything interesting, so everything just sits there on the shelf looking at me and making faces.
At last!! I can do it!! So what if I'm on call... it could take awhile for one bead, right??? Right?? Like 18 hours or something???
Of course my husband won't let me set up in the house, or my studio, or his garage... so I'm in the tool shed. I pull out my tutorial that I printed from an article by Kate Fowle Meleney, hook everything up, get the bath set up, and THEN realize that the line where she mentions the amperage had gotten cut off.
Hmm. I'm new at this, exhausted from call, and NOT thinking
(1 image, 2 sub-pages, 1 comment)
|
|
These are attempts almost to, I guess you could say - with appologies for the pun - control my emotions.
I was asked if I ever made the emotion beads in a smaller scale, to which I replied that I had never thought of it but that I was willing to try.
I was then asked if I *was* able to make them smaller, understanding how they were made in the first place, did I think that I could make a small set.
A challenge for me? DEFINITELY. A lesson in control? Probably much needed... and opportune...
(1 image, 1 sub-page)
|
|
I always sit and make a structured bead, but when I had a really horrible day at work I wound up taking out all of my frustration on the glass - resulting in a totally amorphic bead. Randomness and chaos, both good and bad. These are my emotions in glass.... (GULP)
(1 image, 23 sub-pages)
|
|
More of the Emotion Series... growing, regressing, hiding, standing strong...
(1 image, 9 sub-pages)
|
|
Similar to the Emotion Series, these beads are amorphic but not quite so deep....
(1 image, 7 sub-pages)
|
|
These beads take up my entire palm!! They took me a good 2.5 to 3 hours and a good portion of my sanity to make....
(7 images, 3 sub-pages)
|
|
These are some Valentine hearts that I've been playing with....
(11 images)
|
|
We've had so many cold dreary days here that I wanted to play with spring colours and still play more with the water bead series, but not add the heavy silver to them. Just something a little more delicate.... I DON'T DO GIRLY!!!! (chuckles)
(16 images, 3 sub-pages)
|
|
More of my Organic Series focals... Just starting 2008 with a new page.
(1 image, 23 sub-pages)
|
|
This is a new look that I've been playing with - more of a stone-like look.
(1 image, 17 sub-pages)
|
|
Soft glass, silver foil & frit
(35 images, 12 sub-pages)
|
|
These are small sets based on my Organic Series beads....
(6 images, 6 sub-pages)
|
|
More Organic sets - small & large...
(1 image, 4 sub-pages)
|
|
These are small sets of beads - two or three beads to a set - made from soft glass. Most will probably be colour tests to see how I like certain frit colours on base glasses on large and small beads.
(4 images)
|
|
(8 images)
|
|
A transparent twist to my organic bead family - I just wanted to see how they looked and if I should keep making them!!!
(20 images, 5 comments)
* Featured Page *
|
|
More of my focal transparent water beads - the other page was getting a little full, so I started a new one.
(16 images, 8 sub-pages)
|
|
More of my Water Beads series - transparent veiled or striated glass with silver foil or mesh and frit. A variation of my organics.
(1 image, 13 sub-pages)
|
|
These are sets of smaller water beads (going on eBay: http://stores.ebay.com/Iron... Not quite sure how I like the small ones yet, but we'll see.
(5 images, 4 sub-pages)
|
|
These are wine bottle stoppers of varying styles that I'm beginning to make for friends, family, and just for the fun of making them....
(13 images, 3 sub-pages)
|
|
My sister has this thing for worry stones - I thought I'd try to make a few and then pick one for her. They fit comfortably in the hand and the thumb seems to glida across the depression almost of it's own free will. Anything can be a worry stone - a rock, a shell, a nut, a bead...
(4 images, 1 sub-page)
|
Iron Mountain Jewelry is a one person glass studio in sunny (sweltering) Bulverde, TX, in the hillcountry just north of San Antonio. I'm a self-taught lampworker who works full-time in an Interventional Radiology Lab and only get to play with hot, moulten glass when I've been good. Or when I can run fast enough to get away from my department. I've been playing with glass now for about 2 years, but if you add up the actual time, it's more like 13 months. I WANT SOME MORE!!!!!!
www.Ironmountain01.Etsy.com
|
|
Would you like to post a comment on this gallery page?
|
|
|
Community
Home Page
Browse All Glass Beads
Browse By Date
Browse Featured Pages
Find Artists By Name
Find Artists By Location
Forums
Chat
Links
Add Your Link
How to Link To Us
FAQs
Register (Free!)
Sign In
Glass Jewelry
Browse Sub-Pages of 
Artist:
