studio insight

I've taken some photos of my small studio.
Some photos have notes on Flickr -
so you might also visit my Flickr gallery
or just click on the photos and you'll be there.

My beloved torch - a Carlisle Mini CC


Here you can see me (ok, part of my hand)
making a flower focal bead


My digitally controlled kiln to anneal the glass beads
(or to fuse small items - never tried it though),
a rice cooker to anneal my trial beads
(and to put chunky beads in.. hehe..),
some of my tools and DoubleHelix glass rods


And last not least my grinder
to clean the bead from the bead release thoroughly.


Oh, almost forgotten - my glass inventory
(Effetre, Vetrofond, Lauscha, FFGH, CiM, Ornela)


That's the place where I create my glass beads :-)

2nd frontpage

Another necklace has made it to the FP yesterday.
I've missed it since I was singing in my choir.
But XbyLeinaNeima has taken a screenshot for me. Thanks!
As I saw, that it was curated by daniellexo,
I knew it must be because of one of the newbie thread.
But I've just applied my name once in an older thread.
Curious as I was, I've plugged the new one and
found out, that Estherly has added my shop there.
Thank you!!



And the best thing being on the FP this time:
I have sold 2 of my flowers -
ice flower and smoky sunday!! Yayy!!!

Now I have to stock again, hoping of good weather for photos.
*singing* :-)

torching again

It's been a while since my last torching.
But I've torched yesterday
instead of taking photos as I've planned to.
So I tried to take photos today - no luck.
The sun has only shown up for a few minutes
(to do the sun dance with me being on the FP :-)).
Lesson to learn:
take photos as long as sun comes out!!

But then I've got the idea to take a mirror
to duplicate the poor daylight.
I should have realized this earlier -
my diploma thesis was about radiosity rendering!!
I guess, I've flushed that after 13 years *sigh*
However.. I got a better light
- not good enough, but better,
that I could list smoky sunday.

what a weekend!

On Friday I've joined the VirtualLabs again.
Again, they told us amongst others to join
street teams and indie community.
I've joined indiepublic the other day.
So now, I've joined the European Street Team (EST)
and also We Love Etsy.
I really enjoy EST - they're a happy, chatty folk,
but I need more time to discover the two communities.
I feel like I'm running out of time!!

On Saturday I've found my items in 3 different treasury lists.
This morning while I was reading and writing in the forum,
I was told that red velvet was on the front page
- my very first front page!!
I'm really thankful. Thank you, EtsyLabs!
It didn't bring me a sale, but many hearts and views.
I didn't know before,
why all the people are SO thrilled being on the frontpage.
Now I know and I AM thrilled about it too :-))
The view has gone up just like a rocket
- from under 50 to over 400 just for that item!!!
And it affects also the other items too -
so how cool is that?!!

first sale

Aww... I really neglected my blog
after I make it public *sigh*

Many things happen meanwhile.
I've added 2 items to my shop.
I've sold one of them just on the next day
- my first sale yayy!! -
and sent the necklace to my customer.
I've signed the handmade pledge.

I'm planning to list some more items
on Sunday (hoping of a sunny Saturday
to take some photos).