Finally updated my Etsy shop

For a whole variety of reasons my poor old Etsy shop has been rather neglected of late (Chrismas fairs, stocking the shop in Bude and various other outlets; some of which are still waiting for pieces!  I suppose my new love affair with boro hasn't helped as I am probably spending alot of time playing when I should be producing pieces to sell!).  Anyway, today I finally did it and have managed to post up 4 of my borosillicate pendants on there. Let's hope they do well!

Yeah, done it!

I love making the flower marbles (it is by a method called implosion, bit tricky to explain and can be tricky to do!).  For ages I have been fairly happy with the ones I have been making, but yesterday (rather by accident) I made this and can't get the grin off my face!

Also this vortex marble which is rather nice and a vortex pendant (same colours) (I did make other things as well but these are the ones I am really really pleased with! :)

Some more work

Been playing alot with the borocillicate glass and have been making a few new pendants and some more marbles, some didn't quite work according to plan, but if I didn't tell you you wouldn't know would you ;)

Happy New Year

Personally 2013 was a bit of a mixed bag and to be honest I am very happy to see the back of it, of course no one can predict what a future year will hold, so will just have to do my damnedest to make sure that it is as good as it can be!

Glass wise it was also a year of ups and downs, but mostly ups (I am pleased to say) the second biggest up being asked to place my pieces in a Gallery in South Devon and also one in Mid Devon (which I am afraid to say I haven't managed to do yet, something on the top of the list to do in the next quarter!).   But the best thing I did last year was to go on my course up in the Lakes, I have been having such fun making marbles since then and now trying to branch out (pardon the pun) into other (firstly simple) sculptural pieces.  I am going to have to be very disciplined though and try to ensure that in this quiet period before Easter and the markets starting up again that I split my glass making time equally between playing with the new stuff and making beads and jewellery for the various outlets and the markets so that I don't up with another crazy summer working 7 days a week and no time off to enjoy this wonderful part of the country where I live!

A few photos of what I have been up to lately on the boro glass front (the new glass).