DEBORAHREAD.COM: 2024

Getting More Laser Cut Earrings prepped and packed

All colored ready for UV Resin coating

All coated in UV resin and set

all asembled with niobium ear wires and packaged

Mothers Day is coming up

12 x 12 roses in shadow box

a week of visiting studio to lampwork

Made a bunch of lampwork beads and hearts - hearts are all boro

The weather is slowly changing and trying to get into the studio to work - Some Lampworking was accomplished with small boro hearts to go onto byzantine bracelets. large heart pendant beads and other glass lampwork. A scrapbook crop and got some of the Mothers day paper heart shadow boxes done along with cutting some laser earrings. Hoping this weekend more time in the studio - Hooking up new Kiln I got in November and getting my big kiln running to make plates - Hopefully more postings this year

Mothers Day Shadow Boxes

Valentine/Mothers Day Shadow Boxes - make with paper rolled flowers in the shape of a heart (I have a dog one coming soon)

Phrases will be going on to these for mothers day when I get them cut

2 Hours in the Studio - still cold

I went up to the studio in hopes of lampworking. I refuse to turn on the big heater until its warmer so I can use my big kilns - (Hydro is costly ) The outside was 42F start temp inside was 47F and by the time I finished it was still only 57F only my feet were cold . But I was able to make up some larger boro heart pendants and some spacer beads.

Hoping as it warms up I can stay longer and longer and build more glass stock.

Laser Cutting this week

Started to laser cut for earrings to get stock up - Grinches, Sally & Jack, Stictch & Angel, Garfield & Odie to start

Byzantine bracelet with Lampwork hearts

size 7" and 8" bracelets - boro glass hearts with stainless steel byzantine jump ring bracelets and some boro heart earrings with niobium wires

Shrink Plastic - butterflies

Picked up some eyeshadow for colors to apply - they seem easier than using the distress inks and are more vibrant it seems - when you reduce the color gets stronger as it shrinks - The original size of the butterfly was 2.5" and it reduced down to 1" - I used a black Sharpie and used the eye shadows for color

Shrink Plastic Fun

I have had Shrink Plastic on the shelf for years and only tried it out last week and boy how did I miss this fun. I had seen on Tik Tok some flower earrings that I just had to try . So I started cutting by hand and did some cutting on my Scan N Cut cutting machine. Colored with Distress Inks and just love making them.