A new year, a new name!!

Well, it has only taken me until February to say Happy New Year and wish everyone good health, peace and prosperity. Where does the time go?



2010 is also presenting a wonderful new opportunity, in that I have been invited to exhibit my creative pieces in a new gallery opening in Luxembourg - The Art of Good Taste where you'll be able to find my work under Serendipity Glass Art Beads & Jewellery.



The gallery opens toward the end of April, and if you're in the neighbourhood and would like to go along for a look, let me know.



January brought snow, and lots of new bead sets - some of which are here. In the meantime, as always, you can view photo's of everything that has been baked on Flickr

Purplelicious!

Some commission pieces completed for a gentleman to present to his wife for their approaching anniversary. It was nice to be back on the torch after the summer off!



Realised today how quickly Autumn will be with us. There's the barest hint of brown appearing in the trees. Autumn is my favourite season and is always the time of year which inspires me to make tree beads.

GBUK Bead Fair

As a member of GBUK, I'm glad to promote the following event. Unfortunately I can't attend as I'm at a wedding the following week and can't travel to both, but if you can make it you'll see a wonderful assortment of lampwork. Tables are also free to GBUK members, which is great for getting your toes wet with selling at Bead Fairs if you've not done it before.

Glass Beadmakers UK is holding a Bead Fair of handmade glass lampwork beads for sale open to the public from 1pm - 5pm on Saturday September 19th 2009 at
Highgate House,
Creaton,
Northampton.
NN6 8NN

The 2009 Annual General Meeting of Glass Beadmakers UK will also be held on the same day.

Further information from www.gbuk.org or telephone 01455 440361

FHFteam Blog

Please check out the FHFteam blog, which Becci (Fired Silver) has set up. You'll find a list of members blogs, stores and lots of information about Treasury's and in the future, Team challenges, featured artists and much more.

http://www.fhfteam.blogspot.com/

Frit Happens! Team on Etsy

Exciting news!! The Frit Happens forum now has a Street Team on Etsy.




You can find us at http://fhfteam.etsy.com

You'll find a listing of the 30+ member shops so far promoting U.K. and European lampwork and handmade artisan jewellery by self-representing artists.

To become a member of the Frit Happens Forum Team you must be an active member on www.frit-happens.co.uk forum and your Etsy shop must contain selfmade lampwork, fused work or artisan jewellery . Members must use our tag in listings (FHteam) and help to create group treasuries and participate in our forum based activities.