Best of the (Three) Weeks Ending 8/17/2008

Okay, I admit it. I’ve been a slacker for a cou­ple of weeks. My bad! First it was exams for sum­mer term, then a week off when I was a total slug, then a week of meet­ing and advise­ment hell. So I am way, way behind on BotW, because peo­ple HAVE been post­ing good stuff!

• Min­cot expanded on Rachel’s post­ing from last time about the costs behind artist-made lam­p­work beads.
• Lydia Muell shares a bit of the work behind the devel­op­ment of her first-ever lam­p­work tuto­r­ial. Look at the beads, then click over and get the tuto­r­ial itself — I highly rec­om­mend it!
• Need a quickie guide to the dif­fer­ent types of lam­p­work­ing glass?
• Michelle’s explor­ing man­dalas in lam­p­work, and the results are fabulous!
• Want pink? Not sure how to get it? Lori Green­berg tells you the pros and cons of all the “pink” soft glass out there. Now if she’d just help me cre­ate a true pink in boro…
• Lori is also going back in time for a re-look at her cre­ative process over at Watch Me Cre­ate.
• Cindy Gimbrone’s out there singing “I like big wire and I can­not lie…”
• Susan Shee­han recently dis­cov­ered that doing a bead show isn’t as dread­ful as she thought — in fact, it’s a pretty pos­i­tive experience!
• For those of us who couldn’t make it to The Gath­er­ing, Andrea Guarino-Slemmons shares some pic­tures of Vit­to­rio Constantini’s class.
• A lot of us lam­p­work­ers are intro­verted souls. We’d like to think we can torch all the time, but that’s really not fea­si­ble. So what can we do for fun with­out spend­ing a lot of money OR deal­ing with those hated crowds of peo­ple? The Sim­ple Dol­lar to the rescue!