Iris Jewelry

For the past couple of years, I've had a booth at the National Iris Convention. I enjoy them so much that I am always trying to find new ways to showcase the flowers. These are the start of pendants I'm working on for next year's convention...

New Starbursts

Fun, fun, fun!


The piece on the bottom is called 'Spellbound' and to the top is 'Razzle Dazzle'. Razzle Dazzle was a challenge with 5 layers of glass stacked on top of each other and fused at the same time. I banned the cats from the studio while I was working on it... All it took was one bump of the table and down came my house of cards, so to speak. I think it was worth all the effort though.

A few more...

Here are a couple of other newbies... This cross is called "Joy Bubbles Up". I'm finding myself drawn more and more to the clear dichroic pieces. Here it is without the black behind it. It's the same cross -no photo editing, just a different background.

Sneak Peek @ New Items for Fall

We have finally moved into our house in San Antonio and most of the boxes are unpacked. I finally found my photo studio equipment and took some photos of new designs I've been working on all summer.

This is one of my dragonflies. These have been a challenge because glass wants to shink up to be 1/4" when it is molten and the wings on many of my earlier pieces shrank right off their wee bodies. For a while I was only getting about a 25% success rate, but I've been able to work out *most* of the kinks. I'm really happy with these little guys. I especially like the silver swirls at the ends of the wings.