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.

A sale and a free give-away!

Great deals on the following items.

15% off all shards

10% off streaky stringers, silvered stringers, and veining stringers

5% off murrini chips, and vine canes

Sale begins July 1st and runs until July 15th. Two whole weeks of savings. As always we offer free domestic shipping on all orders over $99.

Orders over $35 during this sale also get a free 5 1/2″ red rose murrini cane sampler. Good only while supplies last. We have a total of 20 sample canes to give. These will probably go pretty fast. To get yours you must include in your order (order instructions) that you would like one of the sample canes.

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

We have selected the top 10 names (wasn’t easy) of all those submitted for the new mottle shards 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 either a free .5 ounce bag of these fantastic new shards, or a set(2) of swizzle sticks!

The voting will end on Jan 20th 11:59pm (central).

Happy voting! Good luck to those who’s names have been chosen!

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Lampwork Artist Sale and Giveaway

Start this new year off with a bang!

20% off the following items.
•Shards
•Streaky Stringers
•Veining Stringers

15% off the following items.
•104coe Dichro Strips
•96coe Dichro Strips

But thats not all…All orders over $35 will be entered into a drawing where one lucky person will be receiving one of the new 104coe Bundles of Color!

Sale Ends Saturday Jan. 9th 11:59pm central time

Who’s ready for another shard naming contest!?

Here’s the details/rules…

The naming contest will start now and expire Friday Jan. 8th 2010 at 11:59pm. There will be a limit of one name submission per person. Please post your name here in this thread. If there is more than one person with the same name submission, the person who posted the name first will be the one that counts. 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 here on this blog revealing the names along with a poll for voting. The poll will run from Jan. 11th thru Jan. 15th.

The shard name that receives the most votes at the close of the poll will be the winner and receive either a free .5 ounce bag of these fantastic new shards, or a set(2) of our Marble Stix unique glass swizzle sticks. I’ll post a photo of the set of swizzle sticks soon, but you can go to the following link and get an idea of what they look like. http://www.etsy.com/shop/AvenueBeads?section_id=6205965

Now that you’ve read the boring details. Here is the awesome new shard that’s just waiting for it’s new name.

Yet 2 B named - 104coe Mottle Shards
http://www.avenuebeads.com/index.php…roducts_id=483

If you would like to get in on this contest, please go to the following link to submit your name. http://lampworketc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148918

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!