My Bead Photography Tutorials

I have a couple of bead related photography set up tutorial, and also bead photo editing tutorial, a basic one. I just want to mention them here too, make it easier for more people to find them. To go to the tutorial, click on the images. Hope you find them useful.

Bead Photography Set Up

Basic Bead Photo Editing Tutorial

Miss Cutie McFlirty

You might not understand this if you are not a beadmaker, or if you’re a normal person. I get too attached to my beads sometimes. I named them according to their personalities. I made this pink turtle bead which is my most fave, using my favorite glass Messy Pink, I named her ‘Cutie McFlirty’. Cause she is super cute!

Cutie is one of the biggest bead I ever made, she’s a chubster. I was so excited to see how she turned out. I guess I was mesmerized by her big blue eyes, I forgot to keep her warm while decorating her body. So she cracked during finishing touches, gave me a minor heart attack. I remember screaming the ’s’ word, which I dont really do by the way I was devastated. I spent about half an hour on her, damn it! Anyway, pulled myself together, I heat her up again, she is in 1 piece, but not sellable. I was going to keep her anyway. Update: Cutie lives with my cousin now, to prove that I can part with my favorite beads.

The Goddesses Project

Long long time ago before I make my own beads, I have this little project in mind. Due to many many oh so many reasons that I wont get into, this project was neglected. Recently I decided to finish it and I’m very happy with the result.

So, my plan was to make a piece of jewelry using variety of lampwork beads that I collected from some of the many beadmakers I admire. I emailed each one of them with the same request, which is to make me 3 beads in their signature style. I pick the rod colors, which is white, clear, clear pink and variety of pink. I also set the size of beads to be around 11 to 13mm, with expectation that some will be off by 1 or 2 mm, which is okay.

Anyway, I found out that its also impossible, at least for me, to make just 1 jewelry out of these beads. I ended up with a few pieces. Everything’s done, except for the bracelet. I call this line ‘Goddesses’. To see the list of beadmakers, click on the image. Thank you for reading!

My First Nice Bunch ^__^

Don’t know what to talk about yet. I guess I’ll start with sharing picture of my first nice bunch. After many many, many fugly ones for many many months. These are my first nice bunch of lampwork beads. Yay me!