If you’ve ever been able to catch one of our live broadcasts, you know what kind of fun is to be had. If you haven’t been able to catch one, you are really missing out. We try to make them as fun as possible and somewhat educational and hope you all enjoy it. This past month we’ve been very busy and unable to do many live broadcasts, hopefully that will change soon. Now that the holiday craziness is behind us things can get back to normal.

Something new that we will be doing beyond the live broadcasts is offering downloadable (is that a word?) mini video tutorials. With this fancy fun little Flip video cam I got for Christmas (thanks Mom and Dad ) I will be able to quickly produce pretty decent quality videos. I’ve been testing it out for the last couple of days and have been having lots of fun with it. A lot of the tutorials will concentrate on using our shards and other supplies which of course will be free to view/download. We will probably also put up some actual “how to make this” video tutorials that will be a more in depth tutorial on how certain beads are made. The more structured videos will be available for purchase and download with some free ones here and there containing the more simple/common lessons.

If anyone has any suggestions on content they would like to see whether its on how a certain shard is used or a bead style that I make, send all your requests and suggestions my way.

Now that you’ve seen how these were made live on camera. Here are the pieces all in their crystal clear detailed photos

First off, here is the set of marbles that I made for a gift. Had I more time I would have made these a bit more elaborate, but their birthday is tomorrow lol. So I had to settle for quick and simple Either way the colors in these are very nice. And lucky for me they all came out of the kiln the same color. These are for a marble game and the set needs to look the same so the player knows which ones are their marbles. And if your wondering it’s a game called Aggravation

We also had a request to show how glass is fumed. This bead at your right is a dark ivory base overlaid with silvered ivory shards and a couple murrini chips. We then fumed it with silver giving this bead a really nice warm golden wheat color. You can’t see it in the photo, but the murrini chips also have goldstone in them, but due to the fuming it sort of hid the sparkle.

And now the bead you all couldn’t wait to see Now mind you, this is not my best encased floral. I messed up the petals on two of the flowers, but hey nature isn’t perfect either right? I used two different stamen canes in this bead along with nile green vine cane, and leaf cane.

Both of the beads from last night are now up for purchase in our online store. I hope that everyone enjoyed the show last night and will be back for the next broadcast!