studs! and other earrings and pendants

A coworker asked if I had made any new earring or pendant-earring sets. She was looking to buy a gift for a friend that would be easy to send overseas in the mail. This gave me the perfect excuse to make another kiln-load full of jewelry pieces!

I tried something new with this batch. Instead of making drop earrings that need earring bails (which I am out of since a big order of them didn't arrive and the seller won't refund my money or replace the package!) and are hung on earring hooks, I decided to make stud earrings.

These earrings are much smaller and fit nicely on the ear. I love how they look - very classy and elegant.

A smaller drop style earring with post backing

A bunch of pendant and earring sets










Marbles were used in some of these earrings and pendants.


I love streakies glass.


Other styles: millefori beads and cathedral (transparent) glass.


I just adore this series. They are my geometric pendants - inspired by that most fabulous bowl I made using these same colours and design.

red glass bowl found a friend

Remember this little red bowl?

This was the first bowl I made. Scoring the circle was WAY harder than I thought it would be and I didn't know how to tidy up the edges before firing. I hoped that the uneven edges would smooth out during the firing. Didn't happen. I like how the piece slumped during the second firing.

Well, I was looking at this little bowl and it seemed lonely. No other piece was made with the same glass and it didn't even have another bowl to hang with.

Here is it's mate:

I used the same glass, cut two layers and did a full fuse.

Here it is after the second firing where I slumped it into a plate mold. Taking photos of glass is hard! Either there is too much light with lots of reflections that wash out the details and the slump shape or there is not enough light. I should get a new camera.


Still have the newest pedants and earrings to post. Stay tuned!

bowl me over

As per usual, I have gotten behind in my updates.

Life has been especially busy lately and I haven't had a lot of time for crafting. I've been putting in crazy hours at work (12-14 hour days) to try and get caught up with all my assessment reports. Although the work day is pretty long, it hasn't really been that bad. I've been staying in town on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights so at least I don't have the commute adding 3 hours to my work day. Other than work I've been collecting study material for upcoming registration exams. Ugh, I was really enjoying being finished school and am not looking foward to all the studying that is ahead of me.

Although I haven't spent much time fusing, I was able to get a few bowls completed over the last few weeks. I also ordered some new molds, which arrived last week. I've prepped all the molds but was only able to use 1 of them so far. Hopefully the rest of them will be tested this weekend.


Recognize this one? This is the geometric-designed piece you've seen in a previous blog. I finally got around to slumping it into a bowl (8" x 8"). As you can see, one side drew in more than others. I guess this gives the bowl a unique and handmade look but it wasn't my intention and I was a bit disappointed when I opened the kiln. *Sigh* I'm trying to figure out why this happened and how to prevent it in the future.


I was practicing cutting even strips of glass here. The strips are 1" x 8".


I like how this one turned out! I was very pleased that it worked out because it was made especially for a friend's birthday. The bowl is now in it's new home in Pennsylvania.


Another gift for a January birthday. This one went to my brother. He has 2 dogs that he absolutely adores, I tried my best to represent them. This was slumped into one of my new molds, a 7" x 7" plate.

I initially made this piece to be 10" x 10" but when I put the glass into the kiln to full fuse it, each corner of the glass slightly extended over the edge of the kiln shelf! This discovery made me come to the realization that I hadn't taken the interior size of my kiln into account when ordering the new molds! The 10" x 10" square mold I was going to use wouldn't even fit into my kiln! I ended up having to cut the piece down to fit a smaller square plate mold. Bummer.

I also did a batch of pendants, earrings and pendant & earring sets last weekend. I remembered to take pictures and will post them soon.