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Hello and thank you for visiting my gallery! Lampworking and jewelry design are my passion. Each day at the torch is a new opportunity to play with color, texture and designs. I feel extremely fortunate to be able to do what I love every day. I've taken classes from Stephanie Sersich and Dustin Tabor, Amy Johnson, Diego Bottacin, Jeff Barber and Tom and Sage Holland. All are wonderful, patient instructors - I highly recommend their classes. Hope you enjoy the bead pictures - thanks for checking out my gallery, Susan
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Happy, spring beads.
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I'm craving summer and a beach vacation!
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Beads made with new DH glass 'Clio'.
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This bead features a new murrini I made using reactive glasses.
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An experiment...I've been sketching robot girls.
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Still having fun making baleen beads inspired from Micheal Barley's tutorial.
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Experimenting with baleen beads inspired from Michael Barley's tut.
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Baleen beads inspired from Michael Barley's tutorial.
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Inspired by Manuela Wutschke's funny birds. I thought I'd try a pelican.
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Playing with new DH odd lots yet.
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Experimenting with the new odd lots from DH.
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Busy blowing shards...
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Beads made with stormed dots from Amy Kinsch - AKDesigns tutorial.
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Astro Blooms w/dichro.
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More Fall colors!
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Inspired by a recent trip to Maui - what an island paradise! This bead has blue sparkling waves inside of it and my own hand-pulled murrini adorn the side representing Hawaiian lei flowers.
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Still making birds! The basis for this design comes from Jen Gelards tut. I've made a few changes to reflect my own style.
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I've been on a bird kick lately...flamingos, peacocks, song birds....
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Flowbots! Invasion from Minneglasspolis.
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I finally found another use for my Leonardo Petal Puller! Peacock tails!
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She is a little taller than the rest at a little over 2.25 inches (59mm).
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More Astro Bloom focals!
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If the Devil wears Prada.....
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Astro Blooms in juicy orange.
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I was inspired by JC Herrell and Margaret Zinzer's article in The Flow. I donned my mask and broke out the enamels! I'm calling these Astro Blooms after Astro Pops with the graduating colors. Remember those? Yum.
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Lots of enamels and murinni.
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A few other focals using enamels and shards.
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I love the perfect little circle that happened from a bubble under the shard. The green glass shows through the middle. Little surprises like that are fun. :)
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Having fun blowing shards and experimenting with color blends.
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The movement in this bead reminded me of objects getting caught in a lava flow. Pahoehoe is a Hawaiian word for a type of lava flow.
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Playing with Bullseye.
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Layers of swirling colors reminiscent of silk scarves.
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There are four layers of glass inside this bead (beneath the detail work)giving it lots of depth and interest. It took a looooong time to make but I liked how it turned out. :)
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I used reactive shards on this bead. The silvered glass on the top half ended up with a green glow so I named it after the infamous green drink.
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I love gold leaf encased over transparent colors. These are all named after famous rivers. I'm still playing with different color combos...
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Inspired by Jen Gelard's tut and modified to make it my own.
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This is my first bird from Jen Gelard's great tutorial.
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Holiday beads! Inspired by Sarah Hornik's 'Think Pink' tutorial.
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Finally getting into Fall colors.
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These focals incorporate the 'Raindrop' technique I learned from Sislonski's tutorial. Thank you, Shari!
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A couple of new owls. I like this sideways looking pose with the wing in front.
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I went to Tom & Sage Holland's class at the Gathering. I've been practicing some of the techniques learned there.
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I think Pumpkin is my new favorite color!
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My first owl - Barney.
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I took Jeff Barber's Satake class at the B&B Show - great class, great teacher! These are some of the beads I made in class.
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Still playing with Satake.
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More Pin Blossom brooches made with vintage enameled components and my lampwork beads in the center.
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Vintage floral components with lampwork disc-bead centers.
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Fun swirls with gobs of dots! One dot, two dot, red dot, blue dot....
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One more for the Visible Thoughts series. This is Lola in Love.
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Driving in the car the other day, another driver failed to use their blinker for a turn (my pet peeve) and I said "What ARE they thinking?". I started thinking about what it would be like if you could actually SEE peoples thoughts. That's what these beads are about. Instead of wearing your 'heart on your sleeve', they are wearing their thoughts on their heads.
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Raku twisties paired with silver leaf and bright colors.
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For Douglas Adams fans! When fired, the Point-of-view gun causes the target to experience the point of view of the wielder.
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Bullseye Odd Lot colors. Named after the coordinating silk ribbon from Jamn Glass.
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A garden of hand-pulled murrini and a few twisties too.
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Inspired by Georgia O'keefe cattle skulls. Several of the skulls have flowers blooming out of them - representing life from death.
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Cool reaction from CIM Unique Clear with raku powder - tiny bubbles! *See Fizz.
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Wild 60's colors!
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Sweet Squid has this heart in his clutches.
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Her blue bandana was a mistake, I thought I'd grabbed a black stringer. But I like how she turned out. She's got attitude!
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I named this bead 'Happy New Year' because the bright colors are very feastive and cheerful. To me, it screams CELEBRATE!
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I've always collected vintage jewelry - I love it! Antique shopping with my mom and sisters is one of my favorite things to do. I decided to combine my love for all things vintage and my passion for lampworking in these fun new creations.
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I just received some intense black and couldn't wait to pair it with raku and make twisties! I left the surface of these unadorned to showcase the colors from raku.
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I've been thinking about octopus/squid beads for a while. This one has Miss Squid holding a lentil filled with gold leaf.
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Another from my Squid series.
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I made some larger flower beads to go with my new Michal S. pendant. Michal's work can be found in Etsy under username - MichalS
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Focals using Bullseye odd-lot colors.
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I made some off-mandrel leaves for gifts to give to my friends at our annual Autumnal Dinner Party. The colors really popped in the natural sunlight.
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Having fun with some dichro and gold leaf I picked up at the Gathering.
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I broke out my CZs to accent some new twisty cylinders.
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Finally broke out the Bullseye Freaky-Streaky pack from the gathering. I just returned from vacationing in the Florida Keys so these have sea inspired names.
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I took Diego Bottacin's class on glass rings at the Gathering. Very fun and informative class - I highly recommend it! I really like this bold design. Can't wait to experiment some more...
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Some focals I made for the Gathering.
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Inspired by John James Audubon.
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These were a custom order for a client's daughters.
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These are my new Flowbot creatures from Minneglasspolis. They were created out of my love of all things sci-fi. I'm hoping to do a whole series of these little guys. I love the 'zippers' down the front of their space suits! I started adding a little something to the backsides giving the Flowbots...flowbutts!
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