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Old October 24th 03, 05:18 PM
Karin Cernik
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In case anyone is interested....

Only two weeks left of my lampworking class... bummer! Next week is
open torch. Yesterday we did silver foil, and more twisties (which is
what we focused on the week before, along with florals.)

What I really really like - florals. :-) I've made 4. One looks
really good, but isn't round (triangles are nice too.) One is all
transparents, and looks nice, and is mostly round...but a bit hard to
tell they're flowers. Two this week - tried adding leaves, without much
luck. They're nice looking in an impressionistic sort of way... :-)

What I really really hate - encasing :-( Can't do it for the life of
me, always end up with a huge shapeless blob and then the inside bead
melts again, and the whole thing just gets....icky. I know what I'm
doing wrong, just can't seem to do it right. Although this week's two
beads with silver foil actually came out ok, if you don't really care
that they're not exactly round, or exactly entirely encased, or a few
other picky details. But the teacher liked what the foil did. (I liked
what it did on hers better, and theoretically I did the same thing, with
completely different results.)

Having a blast, still trying to figure out how to get set up at home,
and how to pay for it. Hopefully my trunk show will actually make
enough to pay for the month-long supply binge I've been on, and have
some left over (or enough special orders) to start buying lampworking
equipment. I can hope anyway. :-)

Karin
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Old October 26th 03, 01:57 AM
KDK
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Sounds like class is going pretty well!

I like to see floras - but haven't gotten the hang of them myself - could be
because I just love swirling the colors together

Best of luck on your trunk show!!!!

Kathy K
"Karin Cernik" wrote in message
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In case anyone is interested....

Only two weeks left of my lampworking class... bummer! Next week is
open torch. Yesterday we did silver foil, and more twisties (which is
what we focused on the week before, along with florals.)

What I really really like - florals. :-) I've made 4. One looks
really good, but isn't round (triangles are nice too.) One is all
transparents, and looks nice, and is mostly round...but a bit hard to
tell they're flowers. Two this week - tried adding leaves, without much
luck. They're nice looking in an impressionistic sort of way... :-)

What I really really hate - encasing :-( Can't do it for the life of
me, always end up with a huge shapeless blob and then the inside bead
melts again, and the whole thing just gets....icky. I know what I'm
doing wrong, just can't seem to do it right. Although this week's two
beads with silver foil actually came out ok, if you don't really care
that they're not exactly round, or exactly entirely encased, or a few
other picky details. But the teacher liked what the foil did. (I liked
what it did on hers better, and theoretically I did the same thing, with
completely different results.)

Having a blast, still trying to figure out how to get set up at home,
and how to pay for it. Hopefully my trunk show will actually make
enough to pay for the month-long supply binge I've been on, and have
some left over (or enough special orders) to start buying lampworking
equipment. I can hope anyway. :-)

Karin



 




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