The Last Flowers in May

It is the last day of May.
The spring flowers have faded in the heat.
Glass flowers can bloom all year long. Yesterday was the first of two Sculptural Flower classes here at Dream Fire Glass. The students really rocked the class. Look at these great bouquets!



Marla's flowers




Jan's Flowers



















If this is something you would like to learn the next class is scheduled for June the 10th.
Call the studio to sign up.

More Murrini

Time flies when your having fun - yeah right - time flies no matter what! So I haven't posted in a while.I was busy with the doing and not the talking about it.
 Luminaria happened. I got downtown late after teaching class so Glass alley was going strong. SAGAG members were showing beautiful glass. Larry West and his crew was blowing glass.The Brother's of the Flame were dancing with fire. The SALSA members where busy making beads so I thought I'd do something a little different.We were on Hot Heads and the wind was blowing. That is my protect the public from flying glass screen. It helps a bit with the wind too.

I made a bunch of small sculptures,strange flowers, birds in tree's and such. I knew at the end of the night they would go in the trash  but sometimes it is just in the creating that is the art.

Now back to the Murrini I made about 7 different combinations so far and I am really liking what they do on a bead. They have a reptilian feel to them an other worldly reptilian so I'm calling them Dragon eye murrini.

I've also been making these earrings with the dragon eye beads. I like they way they look.

May is for Murrini

May is for Murrini

And  Graduations, Mothers Day and May flowers.
Today is just a short blog on the reactive murrini I've been making. I made about 5 different pulls of murrini and am testing them to see what they will do. Because they are made with reactive glass they are not going to behave like a regular murrini which means lots of test drives on different bead shapes and glass.
These are COE 90 Bullseye glass murrini - these 2 are my favorites so far.

I think it comes from being a scientist or maybe I was a scientist because of it. I take notes and make observations. I'm always recording what I did, how I did it, what worked and what didn't. It also helps me remember what I did several years down the road.
Here's a peek at a page on these murrini

Here's a look at them before they go on a bead.
Believe it or not the top right container is the top 2 beads above and the far right is the bottom 3

And here is the bunch of test beads from yesterday.

Fiery Friday is tomorrow so I think I'll make another batch and test them!

Someday I will get these murrini and beads in that etsy store I started.

As for Mothers Day - you have 2 more days to pick something up for Mom and I might just have something she wants here at the store.....Just saying. Mention the blog post and you'll get 10% my jewelry thought Saturday the 12th of May.

More on May flowers next blog.

Done with time to spare!

Usually I don't post  what I have entered until the jury has made its decision.
But this time I worked for so many hours to get this done, photographed and sent into the jury - all while juggling customers and students and bills and orders.
I'm rewarding myself with.......Here it is the finished piece!
Hope you like her - hope they like her. I do

Wow April is almost gone

I keep asking that question in this blog. Where did the time go?
I know time flies when you are having fun but I didn't realize I was having that much fun!
Taxes are not fun I know I did those since the last post. I have been having fun with the Fiesta open torches and the Berries class this week. I'm working hard to get a pendant finished and photographed for the ISGB pendant show. The beads are done now I have to get her put together.

You can tell from the quality of my photos the camera is on it's last leg. It still takes some good pictures but a new camera is on the wish list. I will miss this on it is a Kodak EasyShare a really old one. It was so easy to use and it took some really nice pictures but with all things made of plastic "stuff" Breaks and the toggle that controls everything no longer works and it doesn't recognize the card anymore so I can take exactly 11 pictures and can not change the settings. Now aren't you glad I share that!

I have been working on flowers of all kinds. There are 2 classes I am teaching here at Dream Fire Glass Studio you might want to take if these flower beads are what you want to make.
Sculptural Flowers- May 26

Encased Florals May 27
In this class you will learn to make floral cane and use it to make the flowers on the outside and the inside of a bead

Fresh out of the Kiln edtion 2

Last night was Fiery Friday. We had a good crowd and I got a little torch time myself.
I know I only made a few but every bead counts!
Simple surface decorated floral bead on black slim and elegant.

An Encased floral bead (that flower in the middle is encased deep in the bead) with more flowers on the surface.

Another Sugar Skull - Pink Rose's and all- she's kind of cheeky wouldn't you say?

Fresh out of the Kiln

Yesterday was open torch at the studio so I took advantage of the torches being fired up and sat down to make a few things myself.
I do love making the Dia de los Muertos sugar skulls. I get to sculpt in the flame,use my murrini and decorate the heck out of them with flowers. You can't look at them without smiling they truly are the grateful dead. Even though the day of the dead is in November these skulls full of flowers just makes you think spring. OK so maybe I'm a bit twisted.

The other beads I got done are for the Red, White and Blue mass bead exchange. which will be tonight at the SALSA( Society of Artisan Lampworkers in San Antonio) meeting. I finished my 12 beads I hope everyone likes them.



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