Paula Radke gave me private glass lessons!!!!

When I was on vacation, playing in the ocean wasn't the only thing I did!

Paula Radke, the finest dichroic glass artist in the U.S. gave me a private lesson on how to make Dichroic glass pendants! She has a store in Morro Bay, CA (where I was vacationing). I asked her if she knew of any store that gave lessons on how to make dichroic glass pendants and beads, and she graciously offered to spend a couple of hours with me in her studio.

She showed me all around her studio and warehouse. I got to see where she packages all of her inventory to ship to the Michaels stores, and where she makes her beads.

Spending a couple of hours with her was AMAZING!!! She is so inspiring, and I would love to be a great artist just like her someday!!!

After the lesson was over, she showed us her backyard beach of glass!!! WOW! When you walk out, you don't want to go out there barefoot!!! There are super-fine pieces of glass EVERYWHERE from years of grinding glass for art projects. She let us pick out a box full of glass so that I can come home and start experimenting! I'm hoping to make my own pendants to include in my jewelry line and sell on ETSY.

Here are some pics of my awesome time with Paula Radke!!!

Thank you Paula Soooooo much!!!

I'm Back!!!

As most of you know, I was gone for about a month at the beach and I had to close my shop temporarily! AHHH! It was hard being so far away from home with no bead table!!!!! But while I wasn't busy, (which was rare) I worked on some brand new wire pendants! They will be arriving in my shop once they are complete!!!!! Thank you so much for all of the convos and comments you left while I was away!!!

SOMETHING FOR THE BRIDE...

Do you remember the post I wrote about getting featured in my local newspaper?

Well, the woman who interviewed me, the editor of the newspaper, asked me too make some necklaces for her wedding!!!

She wanted some gifts for her bridesmaids and her maid of honor. So she asked me too make four necklaces in her wedding colors!

Her wedding colors are tiffany blue, black, and white.

Here is a picture of the necklaces I made for her to chose from!

And the necklaces that she didn't pick are going to be on my ETSY site, so watch for em'!!

Crystal Creations!

I just made a necklace and it is one of my absolute favorites!!!

About two weeks ago, I had a club basketball tournament in Fresno, and the games were a couple of hours apart. So while we waited for the next game, my mom and I had already googled beads shops in that area of Fresno. So one of the bead shops that we went to was really nice, and I started looking at their beads. I then saw a beautiful necklace that a local beader had made and I loved it. I asked the lady if I could see it and she took it out of the display case. I looked at it, and it was beautiful!!! Then it immediatly gave me inspiration. I got the beads that were in the necklace, but when I made it, I gave it my own personal twist.

Here are some pictures of the necklace-

I hope you all like it!

Please check it out on my ETSY site!!

I'M GOING TO THE BEACH!!!!

GUESS WHAT??!!

In July, I'm going to the beach! For 4 whole weeks! I am so excited because my parents rented a beach house in Morro Bay. It seems like it has been forever since I last went to the beach, and I really can't wait to go! Another thing I am excited about is that I might be in some craft fairs when I'm there!!!!!!!

Here are some pretty pictures of Morro Bay and my personal favorite beach, Cambria!

OH YEAH! I almost forgot! OK, well I'm sure you all know that my mom makes scrabble tiles, and she sometimes uses rocks, shells, etc. Well, my mom and I, we love Moonstone Beach in Cambria because it always has the coolest shells and rocks. So when we go to the beach this summer, we are gonna look for some new shells that we can use in her creations! And who knows! I might even find some shells that I can use in a necklace!!!

Here is an example of what she does with shells!

I MADE IT JUST FOR GRANDMA!!!

Well, my grandma's birthday was just last week, and I wanted to get her the perfect gift. So here is what I did. My mom went to the Gottschalks department store, and picked out a beautiful green, floral print shirt. When she brought it home, I ended up having the perfect pendant to make a necklace to go with the shirt. The pendant was a carved shell with a silver print on the front. Now, even though I made a green necklace with that pendant, I also had bought a blue pendant just like it but with a different silver design on the front. I will be posting the blue versoin of that necklace very, very soon, but for now, let's have a look at the necklace I made for my grandma!!

I'M HOME SICK TODAY )o: -SO WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING?

I stayed home sick today, and it was miserable!!! But to keep myself busy, I made a brand new creation to go with my new summer line! It is called, "Birds in the Breeze." The necklace and bracelet are a set and I also made some earrings to tie it all together!!

The necklace has blue turquoise, white mustang beads, and a vintage bird charm at the bottom of the necklace and the bracelet!

Here are some pictures!

Hope you like them!

AHHHHHH...SUMMER!!! My New Line!

Ahhh, summer is on it's way and it is gonna be HOT! And since it is going to be so hot, that calls for hot colors!I will be making a new line of jewelry called, "The Summer Breeze Line." If you like colors like peony pink, cantaloupe orange, and spangle blue, this is the collection for you!

In fact, I just made a necklace that has spangle blue, fettle green and some sphinx black in it!!

The pendant used in this beautiful necklace was wire-wrapped and then I used random stones and strung them on the wire frame all around the center stone. Here's a picture of the next two necklaces I'll be listing on my ETSY site.