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One way to get inspired is to occa­sion­ally hang out with fel­low lam­p­work­ers.? I’m for­tu­nate enough to live near Atlanta, which is large enough to have a com­mu­nity of lam­p­work­ers and bead­mak­ers who come together as the South­ern Flames, which is a chap­ter of the Inter­na­tional Soci­ety of Glass Bead­mak­ers.? Peo­ple always come to the […]

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The South­ern Flames Demo Day was yes­ter­day. For $10 you get to sit there all day and watch demos by your fel­low glass artists, schmooze with them, and eat a yummy chili lunch. I always opt for Gerry’s white bean and chicken chili — not too hot and utterly del­ish. The six demos were […]

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The Larry Scott class offered through South­ern Flames last week­end was, to me, many things: A huge edu­ca­tion. Larry demon­strated many tricks and tech­niques that I had never before seen, and explained some things I had seen before in a new way so that I finally “got it.” I sort of under­stood the idea behind linear […]

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At the last South­ern Flames meet­ing, I was off to the side fill­ing out my form as I tried to choose which of three beads from the Folk School class I was going to sub­mit to be pho­tographed for the 2006 post­card. Wal­ter, one of the long-​time mem­bers, looked over my shoul­der to see the […]

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