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Just interested to know how many people tweet, and if you use it to promote your work... Maybe I'll see you there ;-)

Yippeee!

I woke up this morning and had my first Etsy sale notification. I'm so excited!

And if anyone has any idea why suddenly my photo's from the last couple of posts aren't re-sizing as they usually do and no longer fit within their "frames" (see below) I'd appreciate your advice :-*

So I thought....

... I'd make another tree bead yesterday before turning off the torch. I've been admiring the green beginning to show in the surrounding forests and have been itching to translate it into glass. For those of you who make tree beads, you'll know they aren't quick beads to make. This little beauty (35mm lentil) was made from 12 different stringers, each stringer consisting of 3 to 5 colours. It took about 20 minutes of pulling stringers. The base bead is white and transparent green glass, about 2 rods of glass in total. That took about 45 minutes to melt, then another 15 - 20 minutes laying down stringers and shaping. I'm pleased with it and it's my first tree bead in around 7 months, but they still need more work.

What did I do yesterday

A sneak peek at yesterdays work.

Firstly, it's the in-laws 40th wedding anniversary today and as we are in France, and have rather a fondness pour le vin rouge, this "ruby" lampworked winestop seemed an appropriate gift.



These will also be listed in my etsy shop over the next 24 to 48 hours after a lady who requested a Chinese Silk bead decides which she'd like ( and those of you with young children will appreciate there are Easter egg hunts to be done!)

CS bead 2


CS bead 3


Then there are these

Spring green focal and spacers


Autum tube focal


Now, I'm not sure whether to list these or keep them for a friend who loves green, and whose birthday is in June....



Happy Easter everyone. Hope the Easter Bunny left you plenty of chocolate eggs xx

Er-hmmmmm!

Well, I have been absent. Not only from updating my blog, but melting glass. I am back, and hopefully won't be absent for more than a few days at a time again. I won't bore you with the details as the main thing is beads are being baked once more.

There are also some announcements. My website is down for the foreseeable future (grrrrrr!! to the webhost) and so I will be selling my work through etsy, and you'll see my etsy shop details listed to the right. Beads will be previewed here also, and new bead listing announcements noted on my twitter feed (yes, I have succumbed to twitter). At the moment, I am running the one general Twitter feed as billiejlittle so you get a bit of family gossip too, but will split that off once I'm listing beads weekly again. And of course you can see a gallery of work on Flickr

That's it for today. Beads are baking as I type. Photo's to follow!