Angela's Roasty Toasty Beads !

 

Here's Angela looking Tres Chic in her beaded safety glasses. She is sitting next to my glass rod storage rack.

And she's every bit as colorful as that glass, folks !  

 


Here are Angela's
Day One Beads:

Turquoise and Ivory, Ivory and Turquoise, Amber & Black Tab, Amethyst Heart with rose and stem, and Lime Green and Turquoise Sputnik bead

Angela drove down from Northern New Jersey to learn beadmaking. She is a visiting nurse who makes beautiful jewelry with her business partner, Anna Marie (also a nurse). The two of them have been buying up lampwork by the bunch on eBay, but then Angela decided that learning how to do it herself would save them lots of money !!
And at the rate she's going, it won't be long before others will be buying her work on eBay !!

 Day Two Beads:
(clockwise from right)
Lime & purple poked flower, Bluegreen frit bead encased, Turquoise with Ivory latticino; Ivory Pendant (HUGE!) with olive stringer and silver plum metallic frit; Pale pink, lime and purple flattened tab, Amber, Amethyst & Goldstone

 

 

 

No one comes away from my class without lots of hands-on experience in the many aspects of beadmaking.
Here's Angela crushing some poor little glass rod bits to smithereens !!
(Otherwise know as "Frit" )

She's using a homemade Frit Maker. It's a metal pipe from the hardware store, with one end cap (mortar) and a smaller diameter pipe with two end caps (pestle).

Notice she's wearing a face mask ? That's because she's also putting tiny particles of finely ground glass into the air, and believe me, you DON'T want to breath glass dust into your lungs !

Don't take chances with your health !! Better safe than sorry !!

 

 I can't believe she's making me do this!

Great Job, Angela!
You can roast and toast with the best of them!!

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