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My Beautiful BALLOONS!Posted by Bent Warped And Twisted on 8/24/2007Once again Lydia Muell of Ashton Jewels has inspired me to make hot air balloons. Except this time, she actually made the beads with my balloons in mind! A couple of the beads actually ARE balloons (the goldstone and white beads), the others have just been combined to create those wonderful, whimsical airships with their beautiful buoyancy! I hope you like them, I'll be listing them for sale if I don't sell out at our town's centennial fair!
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I love this one! Lydia Muell does it again - this time with a fabulously shaped bead that is perfect for the balloon in this hot air balloon pendant! I've taken a different tack with the gondola bead and gone round, since the bottom of the top bead is flat, so the beautiful turquoise blue reflects down onto the creamy, minty green and gold of the round bead. The goldstone stringer is raised on the balloon bead and is flush on the gondola bead, providing some wonderful contrasts in this pendant. The beads are mounted on solid 14K wire with solid 14K beads. |
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This balloon represents my transition in life from my old days as Twinkle D. Clown (yes, really!) to Twinkle D. Mented (crazy is FUN!). From twisty animals to the ultimate twisty balloon, I'll always be a clown, this piece just epitomizes my darker, more bizarre side :D |
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I'm BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK! My jewelry is Bent, Warped & Twisted - just like me ;) My website and forum and online gallery are still sort of under construction but the chat room's open for business, feel free to drop by! Many of the pieces you see here are available in my Etsy store, if there's a piece you're interested in that isn't in my Etsy store drop me a line and ask about it, I may just not have gotten around to listing it yet! I do try to put "sold" signs on the pieces that are no longer available :) I LOVE WORKING WITH LAMPWORK BEADS. It's not just a love, it's therapy. Marrying my love of jewelry with the art of lampwork glass and wire work is cathartic, relaxing and compared to a shrink, it's CHEAP! It's also something I can do with ALL of my kids that really makes our family time especially fun, and it fosters the importance of crafting and artistic expression in them in a time when an appreciation for true quality work and attention to details seems to be falling by the wayside. When they see the work that goes into it they have a much deeper appreciation for it! I wish I could take up the torch myself but I have fibromyalgia and the meds I take for it would make playing with fire not only dangerous but kind of stupidly irresponsible. Besides, someone has to BUY the pretty beads that all you wonderfully talented torchers make! I try REALLY hard to give props to the glass artists who make the beads that I use in the pieces I make and put in my gallery but if you recognize your beads in my work and for some reason I had oatmeal for brains when I did the writeup and didn't acknowledge you PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I believe in giving credit where it's due and I couldn't make a bead out of Play-Doh and I'm not going to let anyone think I made these beautiful glass jewels that permit ME to put them in pieces of jewelry. I'm very fortunate to have had just the right beads tell me to come and get them, it's a moral imperative that I give their creators the proper respect! Amy Bozarth 2605 Union Point RD Union Point GA 30669 US Phone: 800-759-6869 http://www.bentwarpedandtwisted.com |
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