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Worked on horseshoe nail glass beads today

working on my baby bodies with toes

Made soap for Hibernate & Create....
Worked on Baby Beads today.
Candy glass beads for Midwest Lampworkers Guild Feb. challenge.
Double face sugar skulls & 2 pieces of candy.
Beads of Courage beads from Sat. retreat at Hot Shops.  I used all short rods & pieces of stringer.  No wasting glass for me.
A few fused glass pieces I need to be creative & come up with something new to do.  In the past I have done necklaces & wine stoppers & door knobs.  Rhonda gave me the idea of wind chime..that's a great plan.
More sugar skulls on cautry tips.
Added fused glass heart knob to a spray painted oval piece of wood...
Day # 18  Hibernate & Create.  Glass handmade lampwork sugar skulls on horseshoe nails.
Made baby beads into necklaces, keychains, zipper pulls for my niece Jess.  Jim is sending them off to CO.
Continue to work on color combinations.
Worked on baby beads today.
I love adding my handmade glass lampwork beads to Ed Hardy keychains.  I have several styles at Studio 102 Hot Shops at 13 Nicholas in downtown Omaha.
Hearts & more hearts..Valentines Day is coming..
Jim build 2 display stands for me.  I did an antique finish.
Made Daisy a new collar.  But her hair is so long now no one will ever see it.....
I was torching a heart bead & it dropped into my apron pocket & burnt a hole. And I wasn't hurt! This is the reason you have water near when working with fire & a fire extinguisher. And I sewed the pocket shut.

Adding heart beads to bangles..
Love adding my glass lampwork hearts to Puravida Bracelets
More heart beads on stainless steel wire.
Wavy beads on horseshoe nails.
Wavy beads on cautry tips.
Created a few coin necklaces from the great coins Jim & I got at Cabin Fever Antique Show at Lancaster Event Center in Lincoln.
Sewing machine keys with glass lampwork hearts.  I love rosary style chain with tourmaline stones.
Added a glass lampwork cabinet knob to a pretty piece of wood.  Use my new kiln at the Hot Shops.  It has been so much fun to work down in my new studio..I get so much done.  Also planning ahead for Hibernate & Create since I work all day tomorrow..
Using my new heart press..making plant stakes..cutting my own rods.  Jim gave me a new bolt cutter for Christmas.  He thinks of everything. Really Jim hates sharing his tools with me.
Made some butterfly plant stakes.
Finally stamped my apron & added a few buttons just because....
Made more zipper pulls...
Fused hearts zipper pulls...
Coin necklace with one of the coins Matt brought back from London.
Fused glass hair clips on handmade manila tags.
Fused hearts