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I work most­ly­with borosil­i­cate glass (bet­ter known as Pyrex), which tends to make me a mandrel-​killer. These man­drels are stain­less steel TIG weld­ing rods so are meant to han­dle heat…just not the kind of heat I need to make that glass MOVE where and how it’s sup­posed to move. I burn through 3/​32″ man­drels routinely […]

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Last night’s crystal-​shaped beads were more suc­cess­ful than they’ve been in the past. Def­i­nitely I don’t need to be mak­ing encased crys­tals until I get the unen­cased ones down, though! These also look bet­ter in lighter col­ors, and in transparent/​translucent col­ors. Also, I love my two Zoozii’s XXL presses (the Kalera XXL and the Straight-​Sided Lentil […]

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Here I am try­ing to blog every day for a month, four days in, and I have noth­ing to say. Do we call this “blogger’s block,” akin to writer’s block? Or is it just symp­to­matic of the entire day, when I couldn’t get mov­ing this morn­ing, was blah all through class, came home and fell […]

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I’m not hugely sure about this move, but after mon­i­tor­ing a lot of chat­ter, I’ve gone ahead and opened up a stu­dio at Art­fire.? At the very least, it is an alter­na­tive out­let to Etsy for beads that I want to sell as is. I’m plan­ning to keep fin­ished pieces, includ­ing ear­rings and the major­ity of […]

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As a boro glass bead­maker, I’m prone to push­ing my “con­sum­ables” to the limit and beyond. Man­drels and bead release both take a lot of abuse at my hands. It’s no trou­ble at all to melt through a 3/​32″ stain­less steel weld­ing rod as I smooth out the glass I just wound onto it…that is, […]

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