I haven’t made any jewellery with the red collection of beads yet, I think I will wait until the total gets closer to 1000. Luckily I have lots of other…
Added another 70 beads to the collection this morning! I now have 250. That is a quarter of my way to my goal of making 1000 glass beads for this…
Adding 70 beads to the collection of red beads. Total is now 180 beads made for my @salafestivalexhibition. I like this mix of sparkly silver and gold beads.
I found this lovely little bottle of gin recently and thought I would try to make a pair of earrings to match. The beads in this pair of earrings were…
Red glass has a long history of being a difficult colour to make, with many experiments to get the different shades, and even the addition of gold to make the…
Happy World Gin Day gin lovers! I love making beads from discarded gin and tonic bottles. Makes a special repurposed gift, perfect for anyone who loves a gin and tonic,…
The first red beads are out of the kiln and ready to go! I love that red is one of those colours that works with so many other colours. It…
10 years ago I was busy working towards my 2012 SALA exhibition “10,000 Red Glass Beads.” I was also busy with a 3 year old daughter and being pregnant. I…
Gin and tonic earrings. The dark green beads are made from a Tanqueray gin bottle, the lighter beads are from a Fever Tree tonic water bottle. Simple and pretty.
So many pretty green beads! A mix of my recycled and Italian glass beads, and freshwater pearls.