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Meh

Julia — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:31:54 +0000

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 asleep, and after dinner made a very few, very uninspired beads.

Since I was so uninspired, I thought I’d practice using my crystal press, which has been challenging me ever since I got it. It makes beautiful beads WHEN you can get it to work right. However, it is extremely sensitive to the amount of glass you use as well as how that glass is placed. That makes it hard to get both a nice shape around the middle, with well-defined edges and points, and nice ends that are even and smooth instead of lopsided and sharp. It’s even more of a challenge if you want encased crystals, since keeping the core from bleeding out the ends requires something I haven’t discovered yet.

At least tomorrow is Thursday — shorter class day (with an interesting topic for once), dance class in the evening, and a three-day weekend.

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Another “Catch-Up” Best Blog Posts Post

Julia — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:22:09 +0000

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.

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One World-One Heart 2009 Giveaway

Julia — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:29:59 +0000

UPDATE: Comments are now locked, and I’ll be choosing/announcing the winner later today!

The third annual One World-One Heart event, started by Lisa “oceandreamer” Swifka to bring bloggers around the world together, starts today!? The event encourages people to visit participating blogs and get to know other bloggers, and as incentive many bloggers are hosting giveaways for participants.

As part of One World-One Heart 2009, I’ll be giving away, appropriately, this one-of-a-kind boro glass heart pendant on a silver chain.

Caramello Heart — Front

Caramello Heart — Back

To win, simply leave a comment for this post! You don’t need to be a fellow blogger to win, but you DO have to give me a way to contact you if you are the winner. The winner will be randomly drawn from all commenters on this post on Thursday, February 12, and will be posted here that evening.

If you’d also like to see pictures of some of my other heart pendants, they are in my Boro Heart Pendants Gallery.

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Best of the Ridiculously Long Time, Part 2 — COLOR

Julia — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:00:28 +0000

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!

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Best of the Week ending 9/21/2008

Julia — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:51:25 +0000

It’s a veritable plethora of bloggy goodness out there this week!!!

At the new Glass Arts blog on CraftGossip.com, Lori Greenberg finds two bead artists inspired by American Gothic.
Seraphim Flameworks tests out the latest Double Helix odd lots and test batches.
Karolen’s still learning about Pandora as she tries restriking some unstruck beads in the kiln.
Karolen didn’t spend ALL her time at the torch this week, though — she found a useful new tool for Etsy sellers on the Web.
Can you make a living as a lampworker? Deanna Chase does it.
That Marcy Lamberson is a busy, busy person! First she finds the perfect tool to help with the glassy details on your beads.
Then she coaches Fiona in making a blackbird and a penguin at the torch.
For the week’s Major Eye Candy, Hannah Rosner knocks our collective socks off with her latest necklaces using not just lampwork, but a plethora of seed beads and crystals as well.

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