Business
Website revamp
After far too long a silence, I’m baaaack! Working on updating my website, which it badly needs.
Etsy (webshop)
Gone to the beach :-)
Iced Moments is closed from 4-25 July. All items in my Etsy shop, have been deactivated, but I have pinned most items on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/IcedMoments. So although you can’t buy, you can still look around. Shipping resumes on 11 August. I will refund shipping costs for any orders placed between 25 July and 11 August, to compensate for the delay. I will be restarting my Facebook auctions on or after 11 August. Seeya in a Read more…
Etsy (webshop)
Fluid – from web page to app
There seem to be some some web pages that I view constantly, several times a day. My Etsy statistics page is a good example: I stalk my stats almost hourly ;-) But, sometimes it can be hard to find the right tab in amongst all of those many, many web pages that I have open. And then I stumbled across this handy bit of software the other day: Fluid. It’s a Mac-only application which turns Read more…
General
Tangled CDs
So, creatively speaking, life has been a bit chaotic for the last few months. As usual I have been doing “stuff”, but haven’t been organised enough to take photos or talk about what I’ve been doing. So, it’s time to play catch-up. I discovered Zentangle™ quite a while ago, but at the time, I only dabbled around a bit. Then, for some reason, a few weeks ago I became obsessed with the idea of drawing Read more…
General
R.I.P.
I usually try to avoid posting personal stuff on the internet. But I would like to tell friends, clients, and well-wishers what’s been happening in my life in the last few months. My mum was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in early April. At the time she was given one to two years to live. Life didn’t change much for about two months; it was in a state that I called, “Weirdly Normal”. But towards Read more…
General
My Timer-Driven Life
One of my articles has been published! In a fairly obscure e-magazine called Soda Lime Time, a monthly magazine for lampworkers. Anyway I submitted an article, it was accepted, and it was published in this month’s issue. It’s not specifically related to lampworking, so I am republishing it here. My Timer-Driven Life There are two things that I struggle with on a daily basis. One is inefficiency in how I work (spending too much time Read more…
General
My newly renovated studio
Well, it’s been a while since I updated this blog. I’ve mainly been using Facebook to post (occasional) updates. I’ve been having long conversations with myself about the pros and cons of blogging and facebooking. But I have updated my blog software, I have a newly renovated studio, and some other interesting things have been happening, so it’s time I cranked up the old blog again. Let’s start with my studio. I’ve posted these photos Read more…
Lampwork
My fine feathered friends
Sorry, no, this isn’t going to be about birds. Instead it’s about my current obsession: feathered, also known as “raked”, beads. Okay, okay, it’s just one of my many obsessions but this one has been going on for a while. It started early last year after I attended JC Herrell‘s Joy of Stringer workshop. Since then I go through periods of industriously practising putting straight lines around the “belly” of the bead. Sounds simple, no? Read more…
General
To Draw = To See
Last Saturday I attended a drawing workshop, “To Draw = To See”, given by Annemarie Schumacher of dertigdecember, another designer at The New Label Project. Although I do not think of myself as being able to draw, I have dabbled a bit over the last few years. Annemarie taught us a few techniques that should prove useful, and I am quite pleased with my drawing of my hand. It’s a bit deformed but at least Read more…
Chain maille
So, what the heck is a headpin??
During my Christmas show I was reminded that not everyone knows what a “headpin”, or “head pin”, is. No, it’s not something that you stick into your hair (or head), nor is it meant to be stuck into a hat. In this post I will show you what you can do with headpins, specifically my lampwork headpins. So let’s start off with the definition of a headpin: it’s basically a metal wire with something on Read more…