I must say huge thanks to Sara Sally LaGrand for sharing with us how she makes her beautiful marbles. Without her demo I would never be brave enough to try it :-)

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I was trying to make bead like this for a long time, usually at the last shaping it was falling apart. This one first to survive :-)

In September I was flying to Sedona AZ, to beautiful The Melting Point glass studio. I was taking Astrid Riedel 5 days hollow beads workshop. It was amazing!

My new obsession - galaxy beads! I made lots of them lately, but only few really looks like galaxy, others more like sparkly mess :-)

Berry time

I was experimenting with enamels for the past few days and now I have lots of blueberry. Now I need to make something with it :-)

My place

Here is how my studio looks after cleaning, but usually it not that clean :-) 

I want to believe that my bead making skills got better since  I posted here last time :-)  I will try posting here more often from now on.
Here is few of my latest beads:

I am now working in Tannery Art Center in Santa Cruz. This weekend we have  Winter Art Festival, if you will be near by please stop to say hello :-) I am in studio 102.

I bought dragon tut from Mary Lockwood and she gave me orca whale tut for free :-)
Dragon head break right after I put it on the bead, but I love rest of the bead I already made, so I tryed to make new head right on the bead. It's not as beautiful, but I still like my first dragon.

After making orca wale with huge tail:-), I tried to make narwhal :-) love them bouth 

Here is one of the things I need to find out how to make it work. Made new etched cuff with enameled copper flowers. Like it a lot, but need to redo the flowers: enamel cracks when I was attaching flowers to cuff.

And I made two spinning rings today. It's love love love :-)

I was learning metal smith lately and have done some jewelry I really proud of. I must say huge thanks to my teacher Laura Bracken (http://www.BrackenDesigns.com).
I learned how to solder metals and how to apply enamels, and how to do metal sawing, and many other great things!

 

I want to save it for myself http://kimstjean.blogspot.com
Lots of useful info on metals

I bought a book with tutorials from Kate Fowle Meleney and was hooked by her prehistoric goddess :-) and after several tryout I got two beautiful ladies