All of the come and try making glass beads spots have been filled for next weekend’s open studio event. You’re still welcome to visit and watch me making beads. Perhaps you have an old glass object that you would like to have made into beads. Let’s talk about it at my studio on either August 10 or 11 from 10-4 both days. Looking forward to this event as part of the @salafestival for 2024.
100 earrings for SALA! Next weekend I will be hosting an open studio at my house. Come and watch how beads are made. I have one spot left on Saturday and Sunday if you would like to have a try at making a couple of beads. Let me know if you are interested. I love how these gold recycled glass beads turned out, almost as much as I love the love hearts
Some more recycled and Italian glass bead earrings that will be at my SALA home studio event. The event is number 599 in the SALA guide. August 10 and 11 at my home studio.
SALA officially opens on Wednesday and lasts for the month of August. However my event is just going to be over the weekend of 10 and 11 August. It’s an open studio event from 10-4 each day. You can come to my home studio and watch me make beads or even have a go yourself (there are a couple of spots left)! I have also been busy making 100 different pairs of earrings. Let me know if you would like to purchase a pair before the day.
Happy Saturday! Today I am having fun rearranging my display and selling work from lots of the artists here at @tartscollective ! In two weeks I will be hosting an open studio event at my home studio on Saturday 10 August and Sunday 11 August. There are still a few spots left if you want to have a go at making a couple of beads. Let me know.
I’m doing something a little bit different for the South Australian Living Artist (SALA) Festival this year!
This will be the 15th SALA that I am participating in, and I thought it might be nice to make it an open studio event, where you can come and watch me make beads and possibly even try making your own glass bead.
I have 10 spots available for people to try making a glass bead. I’ll demonstrate how to make a bead, and then I’ll help you make one or two beads (depending on time). The spots are limited to 20 minutes.
Dates are Saturday August 10 and Sunday August 11 from 10am until 4pm.
At my home studio in Murray Bridge. Let me know if you would like to have a go.
Do you remember the flood that swept through South Australia about 18 months ago? My friend’s house was basically ruined when the water level rose so high and stayed in his house for long enough to make it not worth fixing. He accepted the government’s offer to demolish his house, thinking he would simply build a new house there. Turns out that was not a simple thing to do! 18 months later and there’s no new house being built there. All that is left are memories and some broken glass that didn’t get picked up in the demolition. I took a few pieces when I visited earlier this year and have turned them into beads that I have used to make plant stakes for a housewarming gift for him. He was finally able to buy a house somewhere else, and he will still have his memories of his old house. And hopefully these plant stakes add to his memories.
Cranberry Glass is so old and special that even broken objects like this jug are still worth something, sticky tape and all! I am only happy to buy the broken objects to repurpose into beads. It’s fairly useless as a jug, but makes a beautiful pair of earrings.
I am given all sorts of broken and old glass objects, and I was curious to see what would happen with this chipped purple cup! It definitely stayed purple, although a slightly different shade after being in the flame 🔥
It was a bit of a gloomy and wet day in the Barossa yesterday, but it was lovely to stop in at @bethanywines_barossa where the fire was burning and I had a chance to top up my display of jewellery there. I love using their wine bottles to make beads.