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Another “Catch-Up” Best Blog Posts Post

January 27, 2009 in Best of the Week, Lampworking & Glass by Julia | No comments

Since we’re still not caught up with the backlog of blog posts, here’s another installment of the catchup series. Today, we’re featuring some “eye candy” posts!

Karolen has been making some new silver gemstone beads that are incredible!
Marcy Lamberson talks about the creation of Keely the Peacock, er, Peahen.
Yep, you can always count on Karolen for eye candy — this time it’s leaves.
Sweetwater Designs (who won’t give her real name) shows some EDP magic.

Tags: beads, blog bests, color, creativity, glass, inspiration, lampworking

Best of the Week ending 1/25/2009

January 25, 2009 in Arty Stuff, Best of the Week, Business, Lampworking & Glass by Julia | No comments

Here you go, the best of the lampworking blogosphere this week:

Most of us have beloved pets, but sometimes their mischief in our studio can wreak true havoc. Andrea Winkler’s four-legged guest caused quite a panic when he got into her lampworking supplies last weekend.
Sheila Morley shares some of her recent murrini experiments at Watch Me Create.
Andrea’s been experimenting as well, in her case with color mixing.
Amy begins a new series on starting an online business with some words on business names.
Kandice Seeber shares the results from a color experiment that, well, just worked.

Tags: beads, blog bests, Business, color, lampwork, lampworking, synchronicity

Best of the Week Ending 1/18/2009

January 18, 2009 in Arty Stuff, Best of the Week, Business, Lampworking & Glass by Julia | 1 comment

Really. It’s a real Best of the WEEK. I’m not caught up with posting the backlog yet, but I’ll put up another special mid-week post or two to finish that process.

Going back to color, Kandice Seeber has something new to say about seasonal color at ColorAddiction.
The Art Bead Scene helps us create a business plan for the new year.
Lori Greenberg makes us all pea-green with envy (or would that be Envy Green?) with a virtual tour of Fire & Friends Z Studio. After seeing that, we’re all going to want to move to Arizona!
Once Kelley received her own copy of Val Cox’s new Frit Secrets book, she was on a frit-melting roll!
If you haven’t already heard (have you been under a rock this week?), our own Maureen McRorie won the Frabel Novice Glass Artist award! Andrea Winkler shares her delight, and a picture of the winning image, with the world.

Tags: blog bests, Business, color, lampworking, studio, studios

COLOR">Best of the Ridiculously Long Time, Part 2 — COLOR

January 14, 2009 in Arty Stuff, Best of the Week, Cat Comments, Lampworking & Glass, Rantings, Techie Trivialities by Julia | No comments

Here we go with Part 2 — COLOR!!!

From Kandice Seeber at ColorAddiction,
Karolen’s been playing with CiM Sangre — A Luscious Pomegranate Red
The Art Bead Scene gives us The Trendy Bead — Color Reports.

Next up — some philosophical musings!

Tags: beads, blog bests, CIM, color, glass, inspiration, lampworking

Best of the Ridiculously Long Time Ending 1/11/2009

January 11, 2009 in Best of the Week, Business, Lampworking & Glass, Techie Trivialities by Julia | No comments

Okay. I admit it. The blogosphere hasn’t been THAT quiet; I just keep neglecting to post the “Best of.” But thanks to Tinroof saying how much she’s missed it, let’s see if we can’t get caught up a bit! Given how many are built up in the backlog, I’m going to break it down into a couple of postings. This first one will cover web tools and other useful things for the glass business person.

So here goes:

For all the Etsy shop owners frustrated by the lack of browser tools provided by Etsy itself, Etsy Bitch introduces Etsy Hacks and more Etsy Hacks, courtesy of the husband of an Etsy shop owner. These work with the Firefox web browser only, and are Greasemonkey scripts.
Trying to figure out how to make the best use of Twitter? Humblebeads has some Twitter Tips for Artists & Designers. While you’re at it, make sure you’re following @artofthfirebird, @4TailsLampwork, @flamekeeper, @Kandice_Seeber, and @JudithJohnston, the GlassHaven Tweeters. Oh, and if you’re a TGH member who Tweets, make sure you add your Twitter ID so we can follow YOU.
Melissa Lee talks about the ethical issues in reusing old beads.
Henry Grimmet of Glass Alchemy simply says “DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!”
At Watch Me Create, Linda Morrison ponders the idea of series creation.
Etsy recently added social bookmarking options to their website. Now you can bookmark and share your favorite items on most of the big social networking sites.