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**11.21.11** Welcome to Suburban Girl Studio (formerly Vintage Blue)!  For the most up-to-date info and special offers join my facebook page! 

My Booth Buddy

I thought I'd give you all a little peak at some wonderful glass focal beads my Bead Fest booth buddy Jan, has been working on lately...

A gorgeous heart pendant.

A large round focal with colors reminiscent of an oilslick.

Ocean-inspired pieces.

She's been taking advantage of the unusually warm January temperatures and has been spending many hours out in her studio.  In addition to making pieces for her Etsy shop she's been hard at work building her inventory for Bead Fest this summer AND we've been working on a special project we are hoping to have published.  

If you would like to keep up with Jan and all her creations, she has a blog you can find here and a facebook page you can "Like" here.

Bead Shop Preview!

Here is a little preview of what will be added to the Etsy bead shop today...

Bead sets

My favorite glaze, copper patina.

Porcelain heart pendants in several colors.

An assortment of flower pendants.

The update will begin this afternoon!

Bead Soup-Teaser

Here's a little teaser of what I'm sending my Bead Soup swap partner, Cheryl Brown: 

I sure hope she enjoys her ingredients!

Published: Bead Design Studio

So excited to share with you that I have a necklace tutorial and two pairs of earrings in the new issue of Bead Design Studio!  

The tutorial for my necklace can be found on pages 58 & 59.

Pairs 2 and 3 were designed by me and each feature my ceramic beads.  Pair 2 also features fantastic flower charms from My Elements by Yvonne.

I'm also happy to note that my Bead Fest booth buddy Jan, of Molten Mayhem has one of her lampwork beads featured on page 82.  This is Jan's first time being published.  Congrats Jan and thank you to Bead Design for another beautiful issue!

Fresh From The Kiln-Porcelain

I opened up the kiln this morning and experienced both joy and sadness as I found a new glaze I love but also had EPIC FAIL with most of my flower beads.  I used a larger gauge wire which ended up cracking the bead during firing...lesson learned.  

Regardless, here are some of the goodies from this firing...

Oooooooo!

Ahhhh!

Colorful bead sets!  

Swirly heart charms!  Several of these are destined for a special project but the rest will go on Etsy.

My new favorite glaze, copper patina!  

You'll find many of these beads in my Etsy shop sometime next week!

Goals for 2012...Already on my way!

Happy 2012!  

I have big things planned for this year!  The first thing was that I recently applied to be a vendor at Bead Fest Philly (August) with my friend Jan who makes beautiful glass beads.  Well, we got accepted!  That's going to be six months of cracked fingers to prepare and I'm looking forward to it!

My other goal for this year is to get more work published...check!  I will have a necklace tutorial and some earrings in the next issue of Bead Design Studio.  I am also working on several other projects to submit throughout the next few weeks.  What I'd really like is to land a cover of a magazine so I'm going to work hard towards that.

Another goal for this year is to create more of my own designs using random objects and carving my own texture plates.  I've started on that as well with some new designs that debuted last month in raku. If you look up at that photo, some of the pieces I glazed today were made using random items + my imagination.

So I'm on my way and look forward to what 2012 brings!

Happy New Year!

A Happy New Year to all my family and friends!  May 2012 be a wonderful year!

To celebrate, I'm offering 20% off in both my Etsy shops.  Enter coupon code NORESOLUTIONS12 at checkout and receive 20% off your purchase (does not include shipping).  This code will be good through late evening on 1/3/12.  

Enjoy!

Merry Christmas!

A very Merry Christmas from the Suburban Girl family to you and yours!   

Artists Helping Artists-Silent Auction

Several artists in the blog community have decided to band together to help a fellow artist in need. Each one of us is conducting a silent auction to help raise funds during this time of hardship. All moneys raised will go directly to the artist in need.

I'm offering one of my handcrafted bracelets featuring my ceramic beads:

My bracelet features one of my handcrafted raku ammonite fossil connectors and porcelain ammonite fossil charm, rutile quartz nuggets, carved bone, lava beads and ostrich shell beads all wrapped with Vintaj bronze wire and finished with Vintaj brass findings.  

The bracelet measures approximately 8 inches in length and has a 1 inch extender chain.

 

Auction Rules: 

Artists Helping Artists Silent Auction

The starting bid for this bracelet is $25.00.  US and Canadian residents welcome (for shipping purposes).  Auction closes Sunday, December 28th at midnight.

Would you like to be the winning bidder?

Please leave a comment along with your bid. If you are the winning bidder, you will receive an invoice after the close of the auction. There must be a way to contact you. If you have email preferences turned off in your profile, please leave your email.

Many people are auctioning items to help out! Please visit these the other artists below and place your bid!

List of participants:

Patti Vanderbloemen

Lori Anderson

Lana Kinney and Marie Cramp

Beth Emery

Diana Ptaszynski-You are here!

Terri Wlaschin

Andrew Thornton, Nan Emmett, and Maria Richmond

Maire Dodd and Deborah Lee Taylor

 

Thank you!

Raku Bead Shop Update: Round 1 of 2

Lots of new raku in the Etsy bead shop today!  

Here's a peak...

Connectors/Links!

New pendant designs!

New charm designs too!

I'm hoping to upload the second batch of raku goodness to Etsy in a couple of days!