Fun & Fanciful Creature Pendants!!!

Charlie Chameleon Lampwork Focal

On a cylinder of Italian Vetrofond Ivory creme and Italian Efftre Periwinkle blue-purple, decorated with a branch and petroleum green leaves, this yellow, brown, and turquoise spotted Nile green chameleon lizard with conical eyes sits patiently awaiting a snack.

For a beautiful necklace, turn Charlie into a beautiful focal and combine with our Cream and Periwinkle bead set listing.

Freddie Frog Silvered Lampwork Focal

On a cone of Italian Vetrofond Ivory creme and Ochre green-yellow glass with Effetre Petroleum Green lily pad designs, this Black spotted, Silvered Ivory frog with beautiful green toes sits awaiting a snack.

For a beautiful necklace, turn Freddy into a beautiful focal and combine with our Cream and Ochre bead set listing.

Sammy Salamander Lampwork Focal

On a cylinder of swirled Italian Effetre Bright Red, Petroleum Green, and Dark Blue Cobalt Transparent, this Coral spotted Black Salamander lizard with green eyes sits patiently awaiting a snack.

For a beautiful necklace, turn Sammy into a beautiful focal and combine with our Green and Red swirled bead set listing.

Glass Bead Workshop- worthwhile!

Glass Bead Workshop by Jeri Warhaftig

Just when you thought you had aquired all the tools and goodies you would ever need again in your lampwork adventures (yeah... right... LOL) Jeri Warhaftig has authored a new lampworking book that is guaranteed to challenge you to see the world of lampwork in a new light.

This full color book is 144 pages packed with information! It dives headfirst into advanced techniques and concepts, just giving the faintest nod to basic info. Definitely a text designed with the more seasoned lampworker in mind, and it doesn't disappoint.

Advanced techniques are taught using step-by-step photos, thorough explanation, and very creative projects. Each project touches on a variety of materials, tools, and techniques which include: dichroic glass, copper and silver inclusions, enamels, cubic zirconia use, multi-stage bead assembly, fuming, etching, pressing, coldworking, hollow mandrels, disk forming, flower sculpting, vessels, and much more. The tips and appendices of the book condense a lot of great experience into an easy to access and utilize format.

Artist galleries that are included at the end of each chapter, full of inspiring examples of mixing the skills you learn with imagination and creating new, exciting pieces.

If you are looking for some fresh, new ideas and skills to spark your imagination and challenge you, this is the book for you. Tons of experience for the lampworker at the bargin price of $24.95!

Check it out for yourself, and add it to your lampwork glass library! It is available at Amazon.com: Glass Bead Workshop by Jeri Warhaftig

You can learn more about Jeri at her website: http://www.jeribeads.com/

Silver and Fused Glass Gallery 1

Irridescent Puddles of Nature Pendant:

The understated colors of this sweet blue and green dichroic glass

are a perfect compliment for the leaf of this handcrafted silver bail.

They are fused together, not glued.

Pink Bubble Vine Pod Pendant:

Pink-purple dichroic glass makes a beautiful pod

adorned with handmade tendrils of silver "bubble vine".

Nature and imagination bonded together in glass and silver

make a whimsical pendant for your pleasure!

Glass and silver are fused together, not glued.

Rainbows and Flower Vines Pendant:
A rainbow of gorgeous, bright, fun-loving dichroic glass

highlighting a bed of trumpet flowers and tendrils.

A beautiful pendant of fused glass and silver.

Completely unique, and all handmade.

Glass and silver are fused together, not glued.

Industrial Pink- Pendant:

The pink-purple dichroic adds a feminine feel to this pendant,

and the industrial-modern bail balances it.

It creates a playful piece that you can use brighten any casual wardrobe.

Glass and silver are fused together, not glued.