YOJ Week 31 - Biker Chic

I took a "Faux Chainmaille" class last week, it's fun to be the student once in awhile! :-)

Here's mine....

And here's the class photo....

YOJ Week 24 - Tube Setting

I took a tube setting class over the weekend with the charming and talented (and very patient) Kristina Malcolm! Here are my pieces....

Grand River Beads & the NE Ohio Bead Shop Hop

This delightful post by Lauren Potts is about our shop. Thanks so much Lauren and it was a real pleasure to meet you!!! You can read about the rest of the NE Ohio Hoppin' Bead Shops here, but of coarse I'm a mite partial to mine. :-)

What an awesome place this was!! Such beautiful quality pieces and such artistry around the store with student and employee made pieces. The store had a great feel to it and everything was just lovely.  I also met a lovely woman who it turned out I was already following here on blogspot. Her name is Eva Sherman and you can follow her BLOG too. What a talented lady she is and a very inspiring artist!

Grand River was having a Czech glass trunk show. I didn't buy much just a few strands.

The promo at Grand River was pretty sweet. Eva taught me (a beginning wire-wrapper) a pretty awesome wire bangle design.

  

I loved this design! It was so simple and definitely sparked something in me to try more often. I'd like to do this and fire one with a torch or use different patina dyes. Here she just dipped it in the liver of sulfur to oxidize it and what a feel it has afterwards. I definitely am inspired from this piece and can't wait to make more as stackers!!!!