I started making beads on a hot head in the fall of 1994... Mid february I broke the scaphoid bone in my left hand which meant I had a cast seperating my left thumb from my hand and both my first two fingers were casted...however there was a hole in the cast between my fingers and my thumb big enough to stick a piece of glass... So I spent a great deal of the time I had the cast on teaching myself to roll the glass onto the mandrel by just twisting my arm.... I have no clue where any of those beads are... and 18 years later I still make beads left handed!
These pictures are all beads/jewellery made sometime in the late 90's while I still lived in Saskatchewan
Really old hollw red beads with Palladium
This is actually a long necklace or it comes apart and makes a short necklace and bracelet
My chili pepper necklace strung on leather
Can't find my first necklace which is multicoloured and really does have 10 of my first beads on it...
Just a note here... in 1995 there was no internet, I lived in a small rural Canadian Community, I had never even seen a 'lampworked' glass bead when I started, I learned from Kate Fowle's video "Lampworked Beadmaking (an Introduciton)" I didn't take a class until 2001, that's essentially when I was exposed to my first beads made by someone that knew what they were doing!
Just a note here... in 1995 there was no internet, I lived in a small rural Canadian Community, I had never even seen a 'lampworked' glass bead when I started, I learned from Kate Fowle's video "Lampworked Beadmaking (an Introduciton)" I didn't take a class until 2001, that's essentially when I was exposed to my first beads made by someone that knew what they were doing!
