Miniature food beads........

 

This past week I have been revisiting my popular stacked cheeseburger bead design and topping up my Etsy store in good time for summer BBQ fun and added a new sweet treat design too in the form of tiny ice-cream waffle cones in lots of delicious flavours.

Bring on the sunshine!

Jolene xx

 

First beads for April.....

New work...... 

I am working hard on making matched pairs of beads on the same mandrel...

fairly simple designs in bright colours.

Also I have recently been making a lot of encased ammonite beads, so loving the colours in this one!

I bought an impression plate with a butterfly motif (designed for use on metal sheet rather than glass) and used it to make these shank buttons but am not convinced the texture is deep enough.

Last up a bit of wall storage that I bought in ikea recently, it does a great job of organising my graphite tools.

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Lampwork beads available at jolenebeadsjewellery.etsy.com

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New beads this week......

 Just a quick post run from me today, have a lovely day

Jolene xx

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Lampwork beads available at jolenebeadsjewellery.etsy.com

and also in my facebook group here www.facebook.com/groups/joleneBeads

Cute sea creature beads....

Cute ocean critter heart beads

These are my favourite beads of 2024....so far!

Two tone glass hearts with a dash of silver leaf to bring out the organic caramel and sandy beach tones with teal instead of aqua for contrasting water element.

Decorated with cartoonis craba, lobsters and baby octopus with googly eyes.

Jolene x 

 

Texture tools available at jolenebeads.com

Lampwork beads available at jolenebeadsjewellery.etsy.com

and also in my facebook group here www.facebook.com/groups/joleneBeads

Lampwork beads dusted with enamel....

Playing with enamels over heart texture...

I am cleaning the studio, it's a slow process as I keep discoering long forgotten glass treasures including a sample pack of Thompson enamels and my 3M respirator face mask. So  this morning I dusted my stepped heart texture plate with enamels to see what kind of effects I could achieve. These first results are promising so there will more of this sort of thing happening in the studio tomorrow!

Have a lovely eveining, Jolene xx

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