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Pandora Style Beads
It seems any time I sell some beads there is always that question - Do you have any Pandora beads? How about something that will fit???

I am starting to make a few more... I am not happy with them yet. I have tried making them on a fine silver core which is expensive and time consuming but they look O.K. There will be lots of reject beads :)

Beads, Beads and more Beads.......

Making beads for me is like a Yoga class for others. Even if what you make is garbage (and that happens a lot) working at the torch is a great way to let go of your troubles and just focus on the flowing glass.

Implosion Beads
A slight attempt at trying to do the soft glass version of the popular boro implosions. Not quite the effect I was looking for but they do look neat

I purchase my glass rods and tools from a variety of places around North America. I use mostly COE 104 compatible glasses. This includes Moretti, Vertofond, Lausha, Double Helix, Tag and Richenbach.

All my beads are all properly kiln-annealed to ensure strength and durability.

This weekend was the Kristina Logan Class at Tank Studios! It was great fun and we all learned soooo much. Here are a few of the beads from day one.

We were taught to make disks. I was surprised how much you could do with a small flame and a bit of graphite. In this bead we practiced dragging the glass.

I was shown a new way to encase and it it works great! These dots are done with full size rods! Hard to believe!

This bead was a demo bead Kristina made to demonstrate a technique on how to make large bicones. At the end of the course we all got to pick a surprise demo bead and this was the one I got. I will never be able to make one so perfect in shape.

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