Archive for the ‘bead’ Category

Murrini and Glass Beads

This is one of Trey Cornette’s fabulous glass beads.  He makes the most amazing flower and dot/squiggle beads.  What I like to do is make the murrini that goes onto beads like Trey’s, rather than beads like Trey’s, cause I sure don’t want to steal his cool ideas. What is murrini you ask?  Well, let’s [...]

May 19, 2009 · johoff · 3 Comments
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Jeff Barber – beads and bulldogs

Jeff Barber is one of my favorite bead artists. This is one of his beads, made with Satake Glass from Japan.  He uses other kinds of glass too, but I really like his Satake ones.  Even better, Jeff is a bulldog lover too!  The frenchie is named Grace, and the big bullie is Louie.  If [...]

May 14, 2009 · johoff · 6 Comments
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My favorite bead

This is one of my favorite beads that I have made.  I’ve had it now for about 3 years, just waiting for the right time to use it.  I’m still not sure I want to try and sell it at Crafty Feast at the end of May, or keep it for myself.  Maybe I’ll put [...]

May 3, 2009 · johoff · 6 Comments
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Shopping Spree!

Well as you can see, I got a lot of shopping done at the IBS this Sunday!  It was part of our local bead group meeting. In fact, I turned out to have a fuller car than I thought I would.  Phyllis, Donna, and Goat Renee went with me, and we had a blast.   On [...]

April 20, 2009 · johoff · 6 Comments
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Still in a green mood

I just love the fall colors of green. They are some of my favorite ones to wear (especially the olive tones) and some of my favorite glass colors. This is a green pendant I made, and it shows just how hard it is to take a representative picture of boro colors. Boro colors tend to [...]

October 6, 2008 · johoff · No Comments
Posted in: bead, boro, lampwork, pendant

What Happened in Charleston.

I promised you all the story of the Charleston trip, and here it is! For those of you who have been asking about the puffy pillow press, look for that later next week. We drove to Charleston on Friday, and went out looking for dinner. After driving around near the ocean, we came across a [...]

May 19, 2008 · johoff · No Comments
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ETSY GLASS ARTISTS SPRING SALE APRIL 28th – MAY 5th

A sale, yahhhhh, everyone loves a sale, some of the EGA (etsy glass artists) members are participating in a sale. Each store will be having their own sale, everything from 10% off – BOGO 1/2 Off. You can search for our stores through http://etsyglass.com, http://etsyglass.com/springsale/ or by putting EGA, or EGATEAM in the etsy search [...]

April 28, 2008 · johoff · No Comments
Posted in: bead, button, etsy glass artist, glass, lampwork

Gwacie Beads

While I was in Atlanta I got to help out at Gwacie’s bead booth. Gwacie makes amazing glass beads. Her tab beads are just too cool. Here is a blue one with flowers. I’m not a flower girl myself, but if you like flowers then Gwacie is for you! Look at all the details and [...]

April 10, 2008 · johoff · No Comments
Posted in: bead, lampwork