Klunk-worthy Eye Candy

Shari Slonski is from the Far North. She knows what the aurora really looks like.

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Sarah Moran's beads are just stunning

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More Ann Rickerts

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Tiffany McCoy kaleras

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and sea things

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Jerri uses techniques like Lori Robins but in different colors

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(I often wish other bead-makers wouldn't be afraid to make similar beads to a well known lampworker, but in different colors. Eg, Ever After flowers always seem to have some purple and I just don't like purple beads). Some of the German lampworkers make beads with a very different feel

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Love the baroque look of these

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And flowers I just love flowers Val White

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Sisters' beads

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Beads n Bears n brights

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Bead n Bears n blue (I love the name!)

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AND the marvelous beads I got today from Amber Van Meter (Naos)

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and one similar to this

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Tina

Are you fricking kidding me?! I was almost crucified on LampworkEtc. for admitting that I copied someone else's *technique* just to try to figure out how they made the glass do a certain thing. It was borosilicate glass and I hadn't ever seen glass do a particular thing so I wanted to try the

*technique* as best as I guessed how it might work. I even credited the original artist for inspiring me with the *technique* which I have since learned was certainly no original idea by her but something pretty standard and oft used by other glass artists.

I am making a big deal by stating it was a *technique* rather than an actual design although I have to admit I have been inspired to try certain things after seeing they are possible. For example, I had never thought to try to sculpt with glass until I saw Wendy Tobler's dogs. I made my sister a Yorkshire Terrier head for X-mas one year but I never even took a photo because I was afraid of what other glass artists would do to me if they saw me making a glass dog head. I am even scared to admit that I did a glass lampwork dog!

Interestingly, the artist whose *technique* I tried to recreate teaches lampwork. I wonder what she teaches if she freaks out so badly when someone actually attempts to learn something from her?

Okay, so I sound bitter but this is a very upsetting thing for me. I have rarely had hate spewed at me like that and I thought it was pretty undeserved.

- Sandy