Isn't the world a small place?

Doing this blog I get to see/pry where it's readers are from. The results are always quite surprising-Here's a screen shot of the last 2 days visitors. No-one's interested in Greenland! How rude! I'm busy adding bits to my dichroic glass jewellery website as well as my ebay store. Tryng to fit all this in whilst preparing the new site has been tough but thanks to the glorious weather this week i've not been too over stretched-everyone's outside!


Here's a few from my sundrop dichroic pendant range. These are all based on transluscent art glass-very summery! You can get one for every outfit...please!

As well as my ebay site which is my sale site, my website also offers wholesale dichroic glass accounts for resellers so just get in touch!

Dichroic Designs of Shaker Heights

Oooo, I'm now featured on a great website based in the US. Dichroic Designs of Shaker Heights, a fab website featuring some truely beautiful dichroic glass jewellery. It's an honour to be among them!

Got that Friday feeling?

Friday's here already and the weekend is upon us. Bank holidays really through me out of sinc with the week so can never remember what day of the week it is. The only clue really is the church next door rings it's very loud, very annoying bells on different days to alert me. Not just for me obviously. Friday's are practise night and tonight i'm looking forward to 4 hours on monotonous clanging from the novices. Can you tell i'm not a fan?

When the droan starts I normally put my ipod on to drown out the noise. One podcast I listen to regularly is Craftcast. It's a multi-discipline crafts show I download to tunes and is great for ideas and resources. It deals with so many fields that you're sure to pick up inspiration for your next venture. It's also good to reach out to the craft community from time to time.

With that in mind....stay tuned for a very special announcement from me and incywincy crafts about a brand new website for the craft community starting very soon!

I really must slow down with these websites!!

ttfn

Summer's Finally Here!

British weather is a marvellous thing. One second it feels like we're in suburban Antarctic, the next it feels like the Algarve!


The sun is currently cracking the flags and everyone is out an about- hence no-one staying at home buying things from me!- Seriously, it's tragic!



I always notice a downturn in sales when it's sunny so i'm not too concerned-I'm enjoying the weather too much myself!



I'm busy adding to my website and getting things together for a bit of a relaunch. My main sales avenue is ebay and to be fair the whole site is fast going down the drain! So i'm going to concentrate on that -plus the new website!

At the moment i'm doing quite chunky designs with textured dichroic glass. It can be quite a pain using ths type of glass as the clear top you add can pull in, ruining the piece. Conveniently though, i've already done a how-to for the new site so it'll be easy for beginners to tackle using this glass after they read that....if they want. Not that i'm pressuring anyone or anything.

I'm also starting to reintroduce dichroic 'slider' pendants. These pieces are fused with a hole near the top so they'll 'slide' right onto chain etc. They're probably my favourite pieces as they're so thick and full of depth. The finished result can be so random after fusing! I get quite a few questions about these so i'll add a how-to on these to the site as well.

Anyway-it's too blooming nice to be stuck indoors next to the kiln so i'm going far a walk!

Enjoy!

Exciting New Dichroic glass and Glass Fusing website

Exciting news folks!...Well relatively speaking that is. I'm launching a brand new website launching in late May http://www.dichroicglass.co.uk/ for everyone interested in dichroic glass and fused glass jewellery and art.

The site will combine tutorials, news from suppliers and artists, website reviews from both glass artists and suppliers plus a forum!

I'll be adding contact details here very soon so please get in touch if you've got anything to share in the world of fused glass.

I've been very quiet on the blog for a while as i've been so busy working on it and I'm hoping it'll be a great resource for anyone.

Competition Winner and New Glass Fusing Classes!!

Firstly...Can I just apologise for the delay in announcing the winner of the competion. I've been working so hard lately that a few things have gone undone....but...as promised....the winner of the plate....is...Lesley... with Home Kanvas.....probably just as well because some of the entries were, well...interesting!....The competion winner can contact me via the website with the address details.
Next...following on from the first Beginners glass fusing glass, i'm holding the next one on..June 8th!....Like the previous one, it's going to be a small class ranging from the very basics of working with glass to using dichroic glass. We'll be making several projects including items of jewellery and a few items for the home. The aim of the class is to give you the fundamentals of glass fusing and going through the lessons you can apply them to any of the future project you want. Plus..i'll act as your 'remote tutor' after the class, so if you've got any questions or want impartial advice you can drop me a line!
Anywho...must go, the kiln's beeping!

I'm Back!!!!!

Hello again!

Sorry it's been sooo long since the last post but I've been a little overwhelmed with work lately and answering emails something had to give!
What have I been upto?! Well firstly, I held my glass fusing beginners class and it went really well!....In fact I got quite jealous at some of the work produced! David, Harriet and Lynsey all picked it up really quickly and some excellent things got made....I expect to see one or two glass fusing rivals very soon!
As well as that I've been making room for some brand new lines...and i'm thinking big! Which means a new kiln!..yey! New ranges will include some wall art, platters and other homeware lines...and lets just say they take up quite a lot of room!
My third bit of news is still very hush hush.....but lets just say i've got a new website! It's going to be based on the blog but I don't want to say too much as the spies are out there!

Back tomorrow with more news....and the competition winners!!!....Ooo time for a new competition I think!