Ornament Blog Hop- Art Bead Scene

Lampwork glass ornaments- trees, angels, horses, hollow beads, you name it- what fun! This ornament blog hop from Art Bead Scene caught my attention and sent me off to make a bunch of  ornaments from my own glass beads. I had to make this little guy before I even decided that I'd go to the 'hop'! But I was so pleased with it that I have been making more and more. I finally just had to stop! They're also nice sun catchers or window decorations in a safe spot.

The lampwork beads and headpins are all handmade glass, made by me in my home studio. This one is a bit fancy, with silver bead accents.

Now get hopping to see what others have been inspired to make this holiday season!

Happy Holidays to everyone!

Here are a couple of the others that were inspired by that first ornament.

                                                             

I'm always so excited when one of my beads is featured anywhere. One of my masks was chosen for the 'Show Me Sunday' Art Bead Scene.

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Art Bead Scene September Challenge Winner

Last month, one of my pieces was chosen as September monthly challenge winner on the Art Bead Scene blog- http://artbeadscene.blogspot.com/ . It's a great blog, with lots of interesting info for jewelry designers and beadmakers. The piece I entered was a necklace I'd made that just happened to fit in with their Kandinsky theme for the month, and I entered it at the last minute.

.............. It was just a random drawing- I actually prefered this necklace that I had also entered! This one ended up going to the Netherlands.
There were prizes, and I got one of them in the mail yesterday- a beautiful button from Creative Impressions in Clay from Tari Sasser. http://www.claybuttons.com/ It is such a cool button- I think it's the biggest one I've ever seen (much larger than this photo!). Don't know what I'll do with it yet, but I'm sure I'll think of something. Thanks so much, Tari.

And thanks ArtBeadScene for choosing my necklace!