With these beads

Hooray!  I finished my necklace using a couple of my first lampwork beads, some fused silver and my first ArtClay Silver charms.  I certainly learned a lot along the way and enjoyed every minute of it.

Here are some details...

The charm on this pendant was inspired by a treasured antique button I have that belonged to my grandmother.

 One of the things I was determined to do was to make a toggle clasp out of the ArtClay Silver.

There are jasper beads from a necklace I bought in the early nineties at an artisan market at La Fusterie.  The silver beads are from a bracelet I bought on a trip to Paris that had come apart and was irreparable.  I have enough materials that I intend to make a pair of earrings and a bracelet......

Baby Steps

Took some photos today of those first lampwork beads (made 13 February at the day-long workshop Tanya, Lucy and I had as part of my birthday celebration) so that my family could see them.  Here they are, such as they are, a record of baby steps.

 

Now, here are the beads of the master, Michel DuBouchet.  He most generously let each of us take home a handful of beads that he had made.  Tanya took them all home with her and annealed them.

It was a wonderful day!  Now I can't wait for the next session on 6 March!

Beading Babes' Day Out, finally arrived!

Today Tanya, Lucy and I had a wonderful time chez Michel in Thonon where he coached us in making lampwork beads.  Our eagerly awaited session was amazing!  Here are a couple of photos of the action.  The beads have all happily gone home with Tanya where they will be annealed in her kiln!  More photos to follow.

Thank you, Tanya, Frank, Lucy and Thomas for a fabulous birthday present!

 

 

Donations for an India evening

One of the students I am supervising for her Personal Project has organised an evening to raise money for crêches in Kodaikanal, India.  As part of the evening, she will be auctioning off art work donated by students and teachers. I decided a while ago that I would contribute some jewelry to her effort.  The Morning Frost necklace from the previous post started it all off.  The pieces that follow are the rest of my effort.  I learned a lot while working on them all and hope they are sold for good prices for the fund-raiser.

 

  

  

  

  

 

Morning Frost

Just under the wire, I completed and photographed my submission to the January Monthly Challenge.  Whew!  I wonder if I met all the criteria to have my photos accepted.  Fingers crossed.  It was an interesting project.  Now to find a nice package for it, suitable for donating it to the auction raising funds for a nursery school in India.....