G l a s s . G a l l e r y
2 0 0 7 - 2 0 1 1
2011 - Large Glass Heart Bead... Dark Ivory & clear encased silver glass w/ silvered ivory stringer-work.
Tuscan Vineyard Glass Heart on an antique skeleton key. 2011
Forget-Me-Not heart necklace
Carnival Acorns. 2011
Carnival Bead on an interchangeable chain
2011 Bead Booty
My Challenge beads for the Art Glass & Bead Show in Madison, Wisconsin.. I made 18 or so of them, if I recall. 2011
Some of my first Carnival beads... capped & cored. 2011
When I first started making mini acorns... a size comparison pic w/ a penny & a Cheez-It in a child's hand. :)
2010 Bead Booty
Early encased, capped & cored big hole beads. 2010
Glass & Copper Acorn
Glass & Copper Acorns 2010
Clear Encased bead w/ colored glass powders & a copper butterfly... made for Beads of Courage. 2010
Etched copper washers & leaves, as well as fine silver rings. 2010
A fun, cored disk bead
Glass, copper & Sterling earrings.
Glass & Electroformed Heart
Tuscan Vineyard Glass Heart on a skeleton key
One of my first mini kaleidoscopes w/out the wand. 2010
Glass Pendulum on an antique sewing cabinet skeleton key - 2010
Heart Bead on an antique skeleton key
My first 5 beads on a key! Fun!! 2009
Early use of Vetrofond Lemongrass glass... etched Urn Bead
2010 Glass Booty
One of my early disk beads. 2009
One of my first large disk beads. 2009
2009 - Glass Booty
An Ice Cream Bucket full of Glass Beads!
Some of my first lentil beads... silver glass, very early 2008
Love!!!! Ivory & Luna silver glass Heart Necklace
Early silver glass beads... 2008
Glass Cross Bead Necklace.
Silver glass crunch bead.... I loved this bead. 2008
Glass bottle stopper.
Funky bottle stopper... COLOR!!
My beads from my very first professional class, taught by Jennifer Geldard @ M&D Designs studio in Chinook, Washington.
Fish Bones Window Bead from playing after my first professional class w/ Jennifer Geldard. 2008
Changing things up... adding more color (silver glass) to my pallet...
Opal Yellow & Rubino. Wrapped in silver leaf w/ raku scrollwork... on one of my original twig pendant holders. This became the image for my first postcard. 2008
Opal Yellow & Rubino w/ Raku Stinger detail beads. 2008
Glass Heart Bead
Snowmen in a snow globe
One of my first glass domed snow globes.
A cute grouping of snowmen & snowwomen! Opal Yellow & Rubino, of course!
Rubino & Opal Yellow Heart... front & back
One of my first Kaleidoscopes - 2007. I saw the kit (made for woodworkers) & said "Hey, that has a hole going through it, thus, a bead! I think I can make that!" ...putting my big girl pants on & doing it.
Ocean/Beach Cross Pendant
I loved this Ocean/Beach heart bead!
A Lizard on a Log pen, made for a pen competition @ the 2007 ISGB Gathering... the biggest & most complicated bead I had made @ that point. July 2007
Turquoise big hole Dreadlock Beads
My fall into Rubino & Opal Yellow... I fell deep & hard.
My first glass snowman (girl).. modeled after one I had made out of a little plastic bowling pin years earlier.
White & Pineapple Sparkle Heart Beads
First Frog on a Log
First Heart Beads
2007 - My first beads... January-February.