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It must be too hot to play with glass in many locales, because the blog post­ing has picked up. After all, it IS usu­ally cooler sit­ting in front of a com­puter screen than in front of a torch! The Carter Seibels fea­ture arti­cle in Belle Armoire Jewelry’s Sum­mer issue con­tin­ues to gen­er­ate reac­tion among the lam­p­work­ers: Susan […]

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Actu­ally, since last week got away from me, this is a Best of the Fort­night post! Spend your time cook­ing glass, not cook­ing din­ner, with five essen­tial crock­pot recipes from The Sim­ple Dol­lar. Not all “eco-​friendly ideas” are nec­es­sar­ily good ones. Mike Aure­lius dis­agrees with sev­eral recent sug­ges­tions at Wet Can­vas. Our favorite Bead­Nerd, Lori Green­berg, is […]

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I’ve never worked in retail in my life.? Try­ing to be a sales­per­son in Junior Achieve­ment was a night­mare.? I was even ter­ri­ble at sell­ing Girl Scout cook­ies.? How­ever, if you’re going to do bead shows and try to sell your cre­ations, you’re going to have to try your best to be a sales­per­son. If this […]

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Yes, good things will come to those with patience.? The show was vastly bet­ter today than yes­ter­day.? Foot traf­fic was def­i­nitely higher, and peo­ple were evi­dently in much more of a spend­ing mood.? We had one cou­ple that accounted for prob­a­bly over half our sales, as it turned out (though I don’t know for certain […]

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Best lam­p­work­ing blog entries for the week end­ing Novem­ber 18, 2007: Watch Me Cre­ate — Rose­marie Hanus goes off-​mandrel Jen­nifer Miller on beads going bad Kandice See­ber says Vetro­fond must love orange Luann Udell does an inter­ven­tion on booths gone bad Luann also sug­gests not over­whelm­ing the cus­tomer with choices in your booth Deb­o­rah Gre­gory talks about pric­ing your work on […]

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