Happy Monday everyone! Hope that everyone had a great weekend! This week we have some more great specials in store for you.

All specials end Saturday at midnight central time Feb. 12th

15% off
104coe Sedona Streaky Stringers
104coe Berry Mint Chips

20% off
104coe Sea Foam Shards
96coe Dark Multicolor Frit

35% off
Effetre 104coe Tongue Pink
Effetre 104coe Powder Pink

http://www.avenuebeads.com/index.php?main_page=specials

Have a great week!

This week all remaining jars of 104 confetti are 20% off. Along with that all domestic orders $50 and up receive free shipping. If you are a international customer orders $75 and up will get you free shipping.

Use coupon code “freeshipping” during check out to get the deal.

Sale and shipping specials ends this Saturday Dec 4th at midnight.

We have added another color to our growing silvered stringer collection. This one is by far my new favorite! I have been using this new silvered stringer in pretty much everything that I have been making lately. It is great!

I introduce you to our brand new 104coe silvered yellow stringers. This is a very reactive color and you are going to love it just as much as I do. These silvered stringers will change and exhibit different colors depending on the base glasses you use it with.

Here are just some of the things that I have been creating with these awesome new silvered stringers.

These new stringers are now up on the website and available for your lampworking enjoyment. So come on over and try a bundle or two, you may just get addicted like myself

Here’s an item that is very versatile. Check out our new unique handmade lampwork glass cabochons. What are they?

A cabochon, or “cab”, is a flat-backed piece that is void of any holes or channels. Cabochons can be used within many different mediums and techniques to create a beautiful finished piece. You can glue on a bail, bezel set, wire wrap, use them in a PMC creation, or even peyote stitch around the cab. Even further, cabochons can be used in mosaics and stained glass panels. The possibilities are only limited by your imagination and ability.

Cabochons

Now available in our store!

Unique sterling silver pendants that allow you to wear your favorite marble as jewelry. Each pendant is an interchangeable marble keeper. Simply snap your favorite marble of the day in and you’re ready to go! Want to change it? Just pull the marble out and put a different one in to match your mood or attire. How cool is that! With the Holidays quickly approaching, these would make a really great gift.

The pendants come in both plain and twisted style. More sizes and styles coming soon.

Plain Marble Keeper	Twisted Marble Keeper

Don’t forget to check out the unique marbles we have available made specially for these awesome new Marble Keepers. Check back often as new marbles are added on a daily basis.

Click here to go directly to the marble section.

An excerpt from our latest live lampworking broadcast showing how I make blown vessels. This one is more of an experiment of making them without the glass handles and adding wire handles once annealed. Finished piece is pictured blow video.

Blowing A Lampwork Vessel

Watch live video from Playing with fire! on Justin.tv

Here is the vessel with the wire handles added. Going to be playing around with this more in the future. What do you think?
http://www.etsy.com/listing/56106289/mottled-vessel-lampwork-blown-glass

An excerpt from our broadcast showing how an off mandrel glass leaf is made.

Watch live video from Playing with fire! on Justin.tv

Here is what they look like after coming out of the kiln.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/55998507/dark-green-leaves-lampwork-glass-bead

Glass Leaves

There is a new Fusion Frit! We mixed this batch as a new color earlier this year. Only we made one mistake, didn’t write down the recipe. Oops!

So we have this beautiful new Fusion Frit and it will only be available until supplies last. Then its good bye. So if you like this new color, don’t wait too long. Our unique Fusion Frit is very popular and usually doesn’t stay in stock for very long.

On a side note, our frit making machine has been out of commission for awhile. We purchased a new setup and are back in business. You’ll notice that most of the other Fusion Frits are out of stock. We hope to be refilling our stock as soon as possible.

Check out the new color!

Click here to see this and all the other lampwork Fusion Frits that are currently available.

We have selected the top 10 names of all those submitted for the new shard naming contest. Now it is time for you all to decide what these shards will be named. The shard name that receives the most votes at the close of the poll will be the winner and that person will receive a free .5 ounce bag of these fantastic new shards!

The voting will end on July 31st 11:59pm (central).

Happy voting! Good luck to those who’s names have been chosen, and thank you everyone for playing along.

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Shard naming contest

We really enjoy holding these naming contests for our new lampwork shards as they are a lot of fun for us and hopefully you as well. Plus if you win you get a great prize!

The naming contest submission starts now and expires Friday July. 16th 2010 at 11:59pm. There will be a limit of one name submission per person. Please follow this link (here) to submit your name and see others submissions as well. If there is more than one person with the same name submission, the person who posted the name first will be the one that is considered. After the close of the submission process we will go through all the names and pick our favorite top 10 names. A post will be made on our blog here revealing the names along with a poll for voting. The poll will run from July 19th thru July 31st.

The shard name that receives the most votes at the close of the poll will be the winner and receive a free .5 ounce bag of these fantastic new shards. So come on over to the contest thread and give it your best shot.