I lost my heart!

5 years ago I was demoing at a gallery here in Germany and the owner gave me a lucky charm afterwards - a red small glass heart. She said she's always wearing her's in her wallet and I should do the same, it will bring me luck. So I kept this glass heart all these years in my wallet, took it with me to all my travels (which means I take all my german money out, put the dollars in and always packed the heart also in and out, every time thinking about the moment she gave it to me and with the thought that I might need it for a special person one day). I'm a superstitious person, so I was very careful not to lose it.

I remeber I took all my small coins out a few days ago and the heart was still there. This morning I've been downtown, came home and wanted to take again all the small coins out and realized – my heart is gone! I don't know when and where I lost it, but it's definately not mine anymore. Very sad.

Two Elephants

Finally I am back in the right mood for doing my "Indian Elephant" beads again.

And I'm really happy how those two guys turned out, after I havn't made them for such a long time. The size of the pink elephant is 44 x 40 x 9mm and the greenish one is 45 x 43 x 9mm.

Lucky star

Size: 56 x 27 x 10mm
And she's one of those beads that don't look as colorful on pictures than in reality.

Silverbrown

Last week I had to deal with compability issues with Lauscha clear again. Nothing is more frustrating than having nice beads that don't survive. In the last days I used my old Moretti rods and all is good now.

And I used the first time Reichenbach silverbrown. I read about it on the forums for a while, but I'm never really up-to-date when it comes to "new" glass colors. Anyway, this is really a great silver glass option pricewise to the other manufactures.

Summer breeze

Hope you had a nice weekend. I spent it with my family and went horse riding through the forest; I havn't done that for at least 25 years, so today I'm really sore.

London calling

Before I started working with glass by myself I loved to wear glass jewelry and at that time I bought a fused pendant in a small shop in London. It had different shades of light aqua and blue and a silver setting. I didn't know how it was made, but I still remember the fascination I felt when I saw it.

Unfortunately I don't have it anymore, I lost it over the years.

This one of course is not fused; but it's inspired by that excitement I felt that day in London by the transparence and colors of glass. Size: 67 x 22 x 7mm

Lullaby

Relaxing colors ...