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Iron Mountain Jewelry

Posted by Ironmoutain01 on 9/1/2006

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Beads of Courage

Beads of Courage

These are some of the heart beads that I've been making for "Beads of Courage". Hearts and purple have never really been my thing, but if these kids can do it, so can I - my part in their recovery is so very small. Our San Antonio lampworking group is one of many taking part in the Beads of Courage program - you can read more at http://www.beadsofcourage.n...
(26 images, 1 sub-page)
Cabinet Knobs

Cabinet Knobs

An adaptation of my organic series beads - turned into cabinet knobs!! These are soft glass, sterling foil and frit.
(15 images, 3 sub-pages, 1 comment)
Carribbean Blue

Carribbean Blue

These are a couple more pictures of my first attempt at a bead with a CZ in it. I was playing with a water bead, and instead of using silver, well...

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(5 images)
Christmas Exchange Beads

Christmas Exchange Beads

These are the beads that I sent out for the LE Christmas Exchange 2006. I'm not wild about making theme beads, but I love making my organics, so these were sort of Christmas-y organics!!!
(13 images)

Custom Orders 1

These are some small, bracelet-sized organics that have been custom ordered from some of my organic focals.

(6 sub-pages)
Duos

Duos

A new twist to the water beads - I missed making the organics, so I wondered what would happen if I simply combined the two. What do you think?? Does it work or should I scrap it??
(11 images, 1 sub-page)
Electroformed Beads

Electroformed Beads

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 clearly if at all. I think to myself "Hmm. Kate recommends a 10 amp rectifier. So did Tink. There must have been a reason for that."

Yep. I did. I cranked it. ALL the way up. 10 amps.

Well, I took a nap, then figured that I'd just go check and see what wasn't happening - because what could possibly have happened in an hour and a half, hmm???



Uh, um, well.... a whole lot.

For starters I turned OFF the rectifier. Let's see... The copper plates were lying on the bottom of the beaker, the wires that they HAD been hanging from were whittled down to little bitty points, and there was so much vegitation on that bead it looked like someone had stuck a tree in tidy-bowl leaves first!!!

After cleaning up my mess, making sure that the rectifier was working fine, and hanging my THING out to dry, I went back to the web article...

So maybe the amps were a little high...

1amp. I was supposed to start at 1amp!!!
(1 image, 2 sub-pages, 1 comment)
Emotion Bead Sets

Emotion Bead Sets

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)
Emotion Beads

Emotion Beads

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)
Emotion Beads 2008

Emotion Beads 2008

More of the Emotion Series... growing, regressing, hiding, standing strong...
(1 image, 9 sub-pages)
Freeform Series

Freeform Series

Similar to the Emotion Series, these beads are amorphic but not quite so deep....
(1 image, 7 sub-pages)
GRANDE Beads!!!!

GRANDE Beads!!!!

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)
Hearts Afire

Hearts Afire

These are some Valentine hearts that I've been playing with....
(11 images)
Ice Jewels

Ice Jewels

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)
Organic Focals 2008

Organic Focals 2008

More of my Organic Series focals... Just starting 2008 with a new page.
(1 image, 23 sub-pages)
Organic Moss Series

Organic Moss Series

This is a new look that I've been playing with - more of a stone-like look.
(1 image, 17 sub-pages)
Organic Series

Organic Series

Soft glass, silver foil & frit
(35 images, 12 sub-pages)
Organic Sets

Organic Sets

These are small sets based on my Organic Series beads....
(6 images, 6 sub-pages)
Organic Sets 2008

Organic Sets 2008

More Organic sets - small & large...
(1 image, 4 sub-pages)
Orphan Sets

Orphan Sets

What to do with the one of a kind beads, test beads, left overs and orphans??? Make them their own home for now!!!
(9 images, 3 sub-pages)
Small Bead Sets

Small Bead Sets

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)
Soft Glass Sets

Soft Glass Sets

(8 images)
This week on eBay (2-2-07)!!

This week on eBay (2-2-07)!!

Two water beads and one water bead set that I'm putting on the bay this week: http://stores.ebay.com/Iron...
(7 images)
Water Beads

Water Beads

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)
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Water Beads II

Water Beads II

More of my focal transparent water beads - the other page was getting a little full, so I started a new one.
(16 images, 7 sub-pages)
Water Beads III

Water Beads III

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)
Water Beads Sets

Water Beads Sets

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)
Where I Started  (First Year)

Where I Started (First Year)

By now I've been lampworking for about 19 months... a long time for me, but a drop in the bead release for alot of others out there. I thought I'd be brave and post pictures of some of my first-year beads to see how they compare to the ones I've been making now. I'm a self-taught artist, so please bear with me. Eventually I would LOVE to take a class, but I have to peel myself away from work, first.
(25 images)
Wine Bottle Stoppers

Wine Bottle Stoppers

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)
Worry Beads

Worry Beads

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)



 Artist:   Ironmoutain01  Contact Artist 
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 20 months, but if you add up the actual time, it's more like 8 or 9. I WANT SOME MORE!!!!!!

www.Ironmountain01.Etsy.com
Profile Page: http://www.BeadArtists.org/Ironmoutain01
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 Comments on This Gallery Page
Thanks!!
You are so sweet to comment on my Reactive River Rock beads!! I've been looking around your gallery & especially love what you did with the duos!!
» Posted by VivianLampworkBeads on 7/31/2007 6:15:51 PM.
Beautiful!
» Posted by eeyore on 10/29/2007 9:47:15 PM.
Hi
Duh!
I was looking at your gallery thinking I had seen some of these before and just realized I probably even held a few of them!
I just realized who you are!
Great Gallery and I love your purple hearts. We'll have to get a nice batch together at Christmas.
» Posted by GlassJewels on 11/13/2007 5:34:45 AM.

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