Alright - it is cold! We didn't receive any of the snow storms that came through New Mexico last month but the temperatures have been below freezing most nights. As much as I love the cold weather, I love curling up before the fireplace with a good book or the computer when it is cold. I have 4 new books on the Kindle so I think I am going to enjoy January.
The jewelry/fusing studio has been cleaned, organized and rearranged so that it is Zen with the world. I put down my office rug which makes it seem so homey. I am looking for a comfortable chair and electric teapot but this week I will start painting the graphics on the walls. One wall will have tree branches and birds as the backdrop to the antique birdhouses hanging from the ceiling. The opposite wall will have the Teaparty from Alice in Wonderland with a shelf over the window to hold my eclectic teapot collection. I think you become more inspired when surrounded by the things that make you smile. I hope to find an old chair that I can recover with something very feminine and victorian.
I have been working with boro to make flowers. This has been a very big learning curve but I have been progressing slowly. The hardest thing has been the heat needed to correctly melt the components together so that they are seamless. I bought some little lucite golfball cases to hold the flowers. I love miniature art and hopefully by the end of the year I will be making beautiful little pieces of nature.
So, I hope your January is starting out good.
Barb
Dogwood
Pink Hibiscus Flower
My Shop carries a variety of my flowers, leaves and beads as well as other artists' work...click on the link to the Studio RIVER OF GLASS STUDIO
I traded in balmy South Florida for the beauty of New Mexico!
My sets of flowers are auctioned on Ebay if you love to work with a complete set of flowers, buds and leaves it is the place to look
If you want to bypass the bidding wars then just drop by my Etsy store where you will find the flowers as well as the great work of Lewis Wilson who is renouned for his New Mexico Indian Sculptures and Nautical Life
Next Show: Best Bead Show Kino Building Tucson, NM February 1st, 2012
BOOKS, MAGAZINES AND JURIED WORK
2012
Flow Magazine - Women in Glass Winter Issue Cover of Art Glass Magazine in the January/February Issue with article
2011
People's Choice Award - Glass Craft Expo - Las Vegas
2009 “Elegant Knotted Jewelry” by Becky Meverden, FWMedia “Convergence: Contemporary Jewelry Design with Art-Glass Beads” Juried Show sponsored by Bead & Button Magazine and ISGB. Exhibit and Catalog October 2009 Special Edition Bead & Button Magazine 2008
“Beaded Jewelry – The Complete Guide" by Susan Ray
“Glass Bead Workshop” by Jeri L. Warhaftig, Lark Books“Out of the Box”Sculptured Juried Show sponsored by ISGB Exhibit and CatalogOctober 2008 issue Bead & Button MagazineWorld Artisan Gems – On Line Interview
2007
"Metamorphosis: The Life Cycle of a Glass Bead” Juried Show sponsored by ISGB – Exhibit and Catalog Bead Review II – Publisher Brad Pearson Annealer Magazine – On Line Interview
Antique Rose Necklace Aug 2008
Glass Artist Lewis Wilson 2008 Hippocampus Greek Mythology
Toggle is made of glass beads
There are two things that everyone should do during the day - sing and write - even if you can't carry a tune or spell a word you should just fill your soul with both.
Always do it with a smile - or at least grin just at the thought of what you do!
After the Ball
Metamorphosis: Life of a Glass Bead
Metamorphosis: The Life Cycle of a Glass Bead
The English Garden
My necklace was juried into the Exhibit at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the Evoke Gallery in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2007. The necklace includes my glass flowers and leaves but also incorporates seed beads, crystals and pearls. This piece is also featured in the ISGB Ads for the 2007 Fall Flow Magazine and the Fall 2007 Profitable Glass Quarterly.
Glass Bead Workshop is a Lark Books Publication by Jeri Warhaftig coming out in the Spring of 2008 featuring my Key's Hibiscus.
Beaded Jewelry the Complete Guide by Susan Ray features my glass flowers in a piece by Artist Sandra Webster.
The Bead Review II by Brad Pearson features two pieces of mine, one is a single flower the other a set of flowers, Pages 39 and 63.
I am a Self Representing Artist [SRA #S 7] and a member of the International Society of Glass Beadmakers and the Florida Chapter of ISGB, Florida Glass Dragons. These memberships help me to support the education and sharing of ideas in glass beadmaking. I also participate in "Hope Bead Project" every year which is a project to help the citizens of a small community in Etheopia. Most of my practice beads are given to young girls to encourage them to explore art. Everyone should spend part of every day doing something creative - it's good for the harmony of your soul and always give to life more then you take.
Dare to dream dare to love dare to create from your soul
Florida Hibiscus 2010
Barbara Svetlick - River of Glass Studio @ 2007 All rights Reserved - Copywrite 2007
