Showing posts with label glass beads lampwork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label glass beads lampwork. Show all posts

Monday, January 26, 2009

Mini Monday for Dorset Hill Beads



Hi! My name is Eileen, I live in a suburb of Maryland with my wonderful husband, 2 sons and our bulldog. I love creating one-of-kind lampwork beads and being able to share them with people like you. I have found my artistic passion.

I am mostly self taught but have been fortunate enough to have taken a few classes from artists that I consider to be highly regarded in the lampwork world. My beads are made with soft glass such as Morette/Effetre, ASK, Vetrefond, Lauscha and others. After each bead is created I tuck them into my kiln for a good night sleep so they will wake up sturdy and strong to last a lifetime...


The passion certainly shows in Eileen's work. In her blog she shares her passion by showing readers what others have done with her beads. The blog has even more than that. You will find posts about our featured EtsyBlogger each month, recipes and garden battles with groundhogs.

Right now Eileen is taking part in the One World One Heart Giveaway. To have a chance to win an item from this wonderful glass artist go to her blog for details that can be found in this post.


Monday, June 2, 2008

Dogmaw Glass on a Mini Monday

Today we are showing off the husband and wife team of the Etsy shop Dogmaw Glass. This couple creates a wide range of work including lampwork beads, paper goods and quilts.

The shopmonkeys of DogmawGlass toil in the internet mines by day to bring Satake Glass to the online lampworking community, but at night... ah, cool dark night... we get get to play with fire!

Alpha Shopmonkey Jo is a mathematician, beadmaker, jewelry maker, card maker, quilter... I think this makes her a craft junkie, a monkey she's not in any way interested in getting off her back. Which is fortunate, since she's already a shopmonkey, and getting yourself off your back is practically like sitting up, and nobody wants that.

An occasional contributor to the shop, Junior Shopmonkey Chris is the sort of man your mothers warned you about - no no, not that kind, the other kind.
Yeah... THAT kind.


They sure are busy in their South Carolina shop! Who knew shop monkeys could make such beautiful stuff? Want to know more? There is a blog to check out.