Jolene Beads online store

Jolene Beads Store 

I have recently opened my very own online store with shopify and to celebrate I am putting up some very special discount codes online including here on my blog

Save 20% on everything in your basket with the code 20blog at www.jolenebeads.com

To give you a little sample of the kind of beads and jewellery that you will find in my store, here are a few images of some of the lampwork beads, necklaces and bracelets that I currently have in stock.

Buddy bead bracelets 

Opal glass buddy beads with bags of personality and googly eyes. They are strung on hypo-allergenic 2mm stainless steel ball chain. I have 8 shades in stock right now with blue, green or mismatched eyes.

Candy heart bracelets

Deliciously mouth watering and colorie free!

 

Hand crafted glass heart beads for your wrist in 6 delicious looking combinations including banoffee, caramel, milk chocolate with strawberry sauce and heart chocs dusted with 24K gold.

 

 

 

*Made of glass - do not eat :-D

Lampwork animal beads

You will also find super tiny detailed glass animal beads in my new shop, including piggy beads and hedgehog beads with little belly buttons. You can  also find bunny beads like this fella with the most adorable feet. Awwwww 💕

Colour swatch jewellery

Summer is the the newest combination in my color swatch jewellery range. This hot trio of colours was inspired by citrus fruits, limes, lemons and satsumas. 

You can find matching hoop earrings here.

The other colours in my colour swatch range are called Ocean, Thorn, Heather, Buff and Brick.

Patchwork Heart Necklaces

Every single lampwork patchwork heart I create is a one of a kind design - totally unique. These chunky heart beads have a big visual impact and certainly make for a wonderful statement necklace.

Dragonscale disc necklaces

I adore making these elegant stacked disc beads in super bright shades of glass. These unusual glass beads certainly have a lot of visual interest and impact. They look amazing on too!

Happy Apple lampwork beads

These happy apple beads are totally adorable! They are tactile, tiny and have big eyes. Each one has a tiny caterpillar friend to hang out with.

 

For luxury handcrafted jewellery and lampwork beads visit me at

www.jolenebeads.com

 

Jolene xx

 

 

Messy testing - Birchwood, Cafe Au Lait and Saddle Leather ltd run

Thes ocean hearts are made with neutral and brown CiM ltd run colours that will soon be available in the UK to buy. I have teamed up Birchwood, Cafe Au Lait and Saddle Leather ltd run with blues an teals and a touch of fine silver leaf...

...and boy do all 3 of these glass colours love silver leaf! There are earthy and organic reactions galore....

To create these darker patches and shiny silver droplets I burnished parts of the cream/brown colours with silver leaf and vapourised it the torch flame.

Please ensure you have adequate ventilation if you are using any kind of metal leaf or foil in your lampwork bead making.

First up is Birchwood ltd run with Effetre mid blue. In rod form Birchwood is a pale cream opaque glass. 

In the areas where I have added the small pieces of silver leaf the glass has darkened to a deep caramel toffee colour. I am loving the effect.

The second combination I have put together is CiM Cafe Au Lait ltd run with Poolside. I rod form this glass is a warm creamy looking mid brown. 

The areas where I have added the silver leaf have darkened up  beautifully. The shade of the reaction is very similar in hue to what I previously saw with Birchwood.

This heart is made with CiM Saddle Leather ltd run and Aegean.

The areas burnishes with silver are very dark indeed. There is a wonderful organic looking earthy crust with a smattering of silver droplets. Yummy!

Check these lovely beads out on Etsy...

Jolene xx

 

 

 

 

Messy testing - Pizzazz ltd run

I'm focusing on just one colour today, a stunning new purple glass called Pizzazz ltd run which will be available from Creation is Messy soon.

 Pizzazz ltd run is a beautiful colour. It's a vibrant opalescent mid-purple which seems to have its own special kind of internal glow about it!

It is a stiff but well behaved glass to work with and fall into the what you see is what you get in terms of rod colour compared to the finished beads.

This next bead is made with Pizzazz ltd run which I have decorated with Reichenbach deep black dots.I'm guessing this shade is going to sell out very quickly!

Happy melting, Jolene x

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Messy testing - Elegance, Douglas Aster and Glycerin Milky ltd run

In today's blog post I am showing beads made with 3 very pretty new CoE 104 glass colours from the Creation is Messy spring 2022 release that will be available to buy soon. 

First up is this utterly lovely soft pastel pink opal glass is called Elegance. It's so beautiful!

Like all premium pink glass rods, I imagine Elegance ltd run will have a premium price tag attached, but oh boy is this one special!

The next new glass colour I am showing today is called Douglas Aster ltd run. It's a soft and pretty shade of pastel purple.The top pair of hearts have a core of Douglas Aster which I have encased with Effetre 006. The other two pairs of Douglas Aster hearts are decorated with Reichenbach dense black. This one is a beauty, such a lovely lavender colour.

Only one pair of the hearts in this last picture were made with Glycerine ltd run. I wanted to compare Glycerine with some Diaphanous misty and milky hearts from my last glass testing blog post.

The Glycerine hearts are the pair at the top that look the most opaque (let the least light pass through). Moving around in a clockwise direction, the next two hearts are Diaphanous milky and the last two hearts are Diaphanous misty (white dots). Aside from looking obviously more opaque, Glycerine has a much cooler icy looking tone. Diaphanous looks positively toasty in comparison!

Jolene xx

Messy testing - Diaphanous, Fjord, Pond Slime and Aquamarine Ice ltd run

Today I am looking at some of the new colours available soon from Creation is Messy. I have beads made from 4 new opal colours, all of which are available in a Misty and Milky  version.

The first hearts here are made with Diaphanous ltd run. The beads on the left are Diaphanous Misty decorated with white dots. The heart pair on the right are Diaphanous Misty decorated with Reichenbach black stringer and dots.

Both pairs of these off white glass hearts are beautiful though for me the more translucent misty version just has the edge. 

Fjord ltd run is a stunning new aqua blue opal addition to the CoE 104 palette. I find the misty (white dots) and milky (black stringer) versions have a similar opacity with the Misty version only looking more obviously translucent when the beads are held up to the light.

Creation is Messy make absolutely fabulous opal green glass and Pond Slime ltd run is no exception. Again the misty (white dots) and milky (black detail) versions appear to be quite similar until you hold them up to the light and then it's easy to see that the Misty version has much more translucence.

Arctic milky ltd run looks to be a pale opal blue shade in rod form. When I opened the kiln I was very surprised to find these lovely warm grey hearts. 

As before the misty version of this glass has more translucence (white dots) but also I find that Arctic milky opal looks more pastel than it's misty counterpart.

 

Additional pictures taken under bright artificial lighting....

Jolene x