Hi Joyce.....
My wife also makes jewelry. Her gift came to her quite unexpectedly, as we were in a terrible car accident and my wife was bedridden with her injuries. She was a nurse before that and knew the importance of keeping ones mind busy and off the pain. She started to string beads together that she bought. She then bought lamp-work beads and made jewelry, but the cost of the beads were a little too much too afford.
At this point she could walk, but not drive, etc.... and I drove her to a class to learn how to make lamp-work beads. She took only one class and by the end of it, she was surpassing the teacher in her bead making.
I bought her all she needed to make her own beads and jewelry. She even makes her own silver necklaces and bracelets out of silver wire we buy in rolls (I think its call wire wrapping).
At this point, she can not make enough to meet demands, as each piece is made in total by her.
I have some old pictures on this computer, I'll show you, but they are not up to what she is now producing. She is in two studios up here on the island, and still makes trips back to California to sell to customers down there.
Yes....I am very proud of her. She is working in the flame as I type!
Note: I took these pictures and I'm not camera savvy
It is hard to tell just how small and detailed her work is by my pictures, but you can see by the embossing on the napkins, which is small, and her beads are even smaller. She has to melt each color, one at a time, into the flame, and then shapes it, to whatever it is she is making. As you can see by the bottom picture, where the black and pick are embedded in the bead, she starts with pulling a "straw" size glass rod in the flame, till it stretches real thin. She must do that with ever color, then she wraps that around a mandrel in the flame, one color at a time, then finishes it off with clear glass and shapes the roundness to the bead, if in fact it is to be round. It is amazing to watch her work, as all the glass is "molten" orange in the flame so she must discern the colors as she introduces each one!
GOD LUCK on your endeavor Joyce......
You never know what the Lord has in store for us unless we yield and let him lead!
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