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.

It has been a really long time since our last broadcast. We finally broke the silence and did our first live studio broadcast this year If you were able to tune you got to see a bunch of pendants being made and a handful of beads. Hope you enjoyed the show! If however you missed the show you can still watch the archived videos from yesterday.

Disc pendants
Just need to flat lap the backs and add the jump rings.

Disc Pendants

Tree Focal
New style of tree bead. What do you think?

Tree Focal

Big Hole Pandora Beads

Have three new listings up on ebay. Due to the holiday we don’t have as many listings this week. Should have bunches more to list next week. Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend!

Clicking on the photos will take you directly to the auction listing.

Etched Amber set

Blue Ribbed Pandora/Troll bead.

Blue Isle Disc Pendant

Here are a few items new on ebay this week that you should definitely check out. Clicking on the photos will take you directly to the auction listing.

Duo Bead Set

Marbled Rose Disc Pendant

Fragnments Disc Pendant

Since things in our Etsy store have slowed to a screeching halt I now have more beads than I have places to store them. Everywhere you look in our house you will most likely see a bead just sitting there all lonely waiting for a new home

So….After a very long hiatus from eBay I have decided to get back into the auction game. I may not get as much money for my work but I figure hey they don’t do me any good sitting around here now do they. Watching people bid on my beads is kind of fun as well, even if it does end lower than I would usually sell the item for. At least I know they are finally going to their new happy home.

Here is some new items that are on eBay right now. Clicking on the photos will take you directly to the auction page.

Mottled Disc Snake Skin Focal Big Bubble Focal Bead

To see the rest of the beads and pendants that are currently up for auction click here.

Each week I will be spotlighting some current auctions that you definitely don’t want to pass up checking out. So be sure and check back often and see whats new every week.

Happy Bidding!

A little sneak peek into the studio today.

New disc pendant being made

Disc pendants waiting to be listed

Have you seen the new pendants in our Artfire store? These new faceted pendants are a very unique one of kind piece of jewelry. The idea came from seeing polished agate with its multiple layers of color inside, something that can be gazed at for hours with the depth and colors keeping you in trance. We have carried that look over to glass with stunning results.

The whole process starts with making the pendant itself, working from the inside out adding layer upon layer. After the piece has annealed in the kiln the pendant is put through the cold working process of grinding away the layers of glass (and sometimes skin lol) taking about an hour or more. As you will see though from the end result, the sore fingers and messy work is all worth it.

Each of the pendants come with a large sterling silver jump ring allowing the pendant to be strung on any necklace of your choosing. Looks great on satin cord as well as sterling silver. Imagine the compliments and questions you will get when wearing one of these very unique glass art pendants.

Man, am I ever having fun with these new window jars that I’ve been blowing! I’m starting to get my technique down so as we go along the jars will most likely get more complex in their design.

The two that I made during last nights broadcast came out great! The first one was made with a gold pink base that was rolled in our Cherry Smash fusion frit. Finished with a raku rim and hanging handle.

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The second one that I blew I decide to have serve a bit of different purpose. I will be grinding the bottom of this one flat so that instead of hanging in a window it can be set on a window sill or a shelf/counter. This one is my favorite one so far! The colors are beautiful. I still have to do some cold work on this piece. So as long as I don’t mess it up on the lapidary, it will be listed in our store as soon as it is finished.

Lastly, I got to use a new tool that I’ve been wanting to get for some time. Its for making the loop in off mandrel pendants. They are called “Peter’s Tweezers” and they really cut the time down in trying to get that perfect pendant loop. I can see already that this tool is going to get a lot of use. I got it from Flamekissedglass.com and you can’t beat the price of only $7.00 !

This was the pendant that was made during last nights broadcast using these tweezers. Base of light ivory with dots of Cobalt and Aurae. Check out how the Aurae nicely fumed the ivory!

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We’ll be in the studio a little later today and will be making more jars and pendants. Check in about 4pm central time and we should be live! www.Justin.tv/avenuebeads

~Joe~