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No, not THAT kind of quickie ::frown::. I spent all evening doing all the show prep stuff that I know not to put off until the last minute but do so any­way. I always end up clean­ing the last batch of beads on the last night, and then they have to be sorted, culled, placed […]

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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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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 […]

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