Ok, obviously this site is still under construction, however, there is an end in sight!!!  the lovely Kitty is hard at work and almost ready to blast off!  please leave a comment if you happened upon this sight so i know about you and can reply to your comment.  I am really excited to get this ball rolling and keep everyone who comes here up to date.  Well, i am off to a birthday party and it is sunny here for a change in gool ol’ Cincinnati Ohio!!  later gators!!!

Hi all!!!  This is sooo new to me, the blog and having a website.  Welcome to my new home!  Two things, bear with me and come back again, it’s a new process.  Anyhoo, I am busy at my torch making beads for my lovely stores that are carrying my beads.  First, Yelton’s fine jewelry is a great store on the progressive West side of town of Westchester, Ohio!!!  They were voted number 1 for best accessories on the west side.  They carry a huge assortment of Troll beads and pandora and of course they have rounded out their inventory by carrying my beads to support their custom rings and necklace designs.  Check them out on their website www.yeltons.com you will have to call to find out about the beads and the custom pieces, it’s still not on the website but i am sure they would accomodate anyone interested!!  Also, my beads will be carried at Pleasantree in Fairfield!  It is a great store with lots of fun stuff!  They are located on Nilles Rd.  I look forward to doing business with them.  Ok, that’s my chat for now!  Back to the torch!!

A variant of the wound glass beadmaking technique, and a labor intensive one, is what is traditionally called lampworking. In the Venetian industry, where very large quantities of beads were produced in the 19th century for the African trade, the core of a decorated bead was produced from molten glass at furnace temperatures, a large-scale industrial process dominated by men. The delicate multicolored decoration was then added by people, mostly women, working at home using an oil lamp or spirit lamp to re-heat the cores and the fine wisps of colored glass used to decorate them. These workers were paid on a piecework basis for the resulting lampwork beads.

Modern lampwork beads are made by using a gas torch to heat a rod of glass and spinning the resulting thread around a metal rod covered in bead release. When the base bead has been formed, other colors of glass can be added to the surface to create many designs. After this initial stage of the beadmaking process, the bead can be further fired in a kiln to make it more durable.