Islandgirl's Insights

Hopefully there will be a bunch of blogs showing off old beads.. the link should be through here Art Jewelry Elements.. Early BEads Blog Hop...

 New Jellies using my new Ameritool falt lap....  Actually it's a Christmas present but it seemed silly to leave it in the box for 6 wee...

Ormond Beach Florida....  Just got back from a 4 day workshop with  Claudia Trimbur-Pagel at Rocio's Studio in Cocoa FL...  Never manag...

Two sides of a  pendant that I just finished,  it was made to match a bracelet that I made about 5 years ago... black, edp and pea green...

 This little guy mistook me for a giant magenta flower earlier this week ... I was standing under it's feeeder and it flew round and rou...

I can identify a few things in this picture.. but then I know what I'm looking at! My partner is Ann Sherwood from WI and this is her ...

New Beads this week... not sure what I'm doing with them.... Spent Monday beating up on some copper wire and sheet.... OK .. I give ...

I noticed a bunch of enameled beads during the Bead Soup Blog hop... and decided I needed some... Originally I was going to buy a bunch of f...

Back in the mid 90's before we/I wasted 5 + hours a day playing on the computer I was a flat glass artist... I made stained glass birds....

Nave Nave Moe (Sacred Spring, Sweet Dreams) by Paul Gaugin 1894, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg This month our inspiration for the ABS ...

This is the fifth and final year of One World One Heart.... The Blue flameworked/lampworked heart above is what I am giving away this yea...

Today is the last day of 2010.... I will remember 2010 as the year that I helped my parents move out of the house that they had lived in fo...

Typical cat won't stand still to have his picture taken!

The Starving Artist Team on Etsy Sateam had a challenge in November to work with colours you don't normally work with. I like bright b...

Well I'm back in the studio... my birds are done... and shipped so now it's time to melt in bead shop... (Yes it's hot here...)...

The theme for the Carnival Bloggers this month is Growth... Well that's obvious to anyone that lives North of the 45th Parallell ...NEW ...

Come check out the ISGB's Rites of spring Auction on Ebay I donated a piece for this auction but it isn't being auctioned this wee...