My blog Soup is here, thanks Lupe Meter!!

Yup, its here! Wow, Lupe the polymer pieces are beautiful!! SO many goodies, how does one choose!! I have an idea, sketched it out on paper and hopefully I can do your pieces justice! Thank you Lupe!! Sue

A sneek pink of my Bead Soup

Ok, my partner is Lupe Meter and here is a sneek peek into the bead soup I'm sending her!!

I know, I know, its hard to tell what it is isn't it? Well, we can't let her see it right? She has to be surprised!! Lupe, I hope you are surprised with your bead soup and I hope you like it!! Sue

Now I've got my partner and reveal date!!

Ok, so I've now been given my partners name Lupe Meter and my reveal date of April 6th. I am set and ready to go!! Now I need to get a sneek peek picture of my bead soup!! So, come back tomorrow and I'll show a picture of my package and possibly a played with pic of the soup!! :) Till then, Sue

Bead Soup Blog Party

Ok, I'm all signed up and ready to go!! This is my first time joining and i'm looking SO forward to getting my partner!! I have my soup almost all picked out, just need a couple more things so I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready!! SO, are you in? 500 sign ups is amazing and SO much work i'm sure, bless her heart!! Thank you Lori, I can't wait to get my partner and get started!! Till then, Sue

Marbles

So, i've always had this fascination with marbles. Over the years i've put them in jars and bowls and enjoyed how they look there. Maybe a year ago I tried my hand at making one....well actually 3 but who's counting. It was VERY difficult for me. They were very small, misshapen and not quite that pretty but "I" made them so I was thrilled. But with it being so hard I got rid of my book and marble mold. Figuring I would just stick to beads........ A quick look at them:

yea, pretty crappy and very tiny. SO, go forward and I've decided to try it again after finding a youtube video. She made it look SO easy. I wish I could find the video again, it was a woman making a marble at a show and a little boy was watching. She inspired me to try it again and i'm SO glad I did. Not that my marbles are much better, although they are, but she made it look easy enough to try again! So, I first started with soft glass again since its what I'm used to working with. Here is some results:

First a group shot......the good,the bad and the ugly!! :) then some I really like looking at. I've been carrying some around in my pocket, taking them out to admire. So, I decided to give boro a try. Why not, I had enjoyed making the boro chains from Pipyrs tutorial, why not marbles right? Other than it taking SO much longer, it was great! So I have decided to continue with boro for marbles. Yea, I made a pandora bead just for the heck of it but it certainly didn't come out as nice as the marbles did!! The marbles stand in the pics is soft glass.....I need to make one with boro and not so colorful :)

Top 3 pictures are of one I used a flower pin frog with and the last 2 are of one swirled. I have 2 new ones from last night, one I made using a tube and the other a flower compression marble from a video I found on youtube. They came out VERY cool and I'll post pics once I get them done. Till next time, take care! Sue

New Glass Chains

I've been working on something new: Glass Chains! I've been trying to make them in soft glass but have not been able to get beyond 3 chains. A secret Santa gifted me a tutorial written by Pipyr Here's the link http://pipyr.com/tutorials.html just in case you would like to try too! Her tutorial is SO well written, lots of pictures and includes an off mandrel button tutorial. Now, if you know me you know I LOVE making buttons! My etsy shop has lots of them. I have them on my desk waiting to be listed, on my work bench waiting to be photographed, they are everywhere! The off mandrel button tutorial was very easy to follow with great results too! Now mind you I've only played with boro twice so I was a little worried but figured since her tutorial was written using boro (she says soft glass can be used too :) I decided that I would work with the boro first! Here are my results! I just LOVE this chain, so much so that I made a second one in clear!! Here is the end of the first day, 2 1/2 hours on it.

and the button

Last night I was able to get another 2 1/2 hours on the torch and made the rest of the links and a few toggles. I'm not sure if I'm going to use a toggle clasp or the button with the leather the way Pipyr does it in the tutorial so I made both.

So, what do you think? Any thoughts on the clasp? Have you gone to check out the tutorial yet? You will be very pleased if you do decide to purchase it!! Well, till next time, Have a good one, Sue

The cutest bead pens!

More new pens from Gail at Bodaciouspens.com I LOVE how cute these are! What a perfect gift for someone. These are beads i've made that gail has yet again turned into wonderful pens! You can find them with her at shows she does in North Florida and Georgia or on her website boadciouspens.com and I know she is always up for custom orders :) Surf board Love

Pitbull

Yellow Jacket

Be sure to check out her site! Till next time, Sue aka glassymom