FHF Team Blog - handmade lampwork glass beads, pendants, findings and jewellery: October 2010

Sunday 24 October 2010

Pick of the week - Dress up your Denim

This is a gorgeous lampwork pendant made by me from transparent aquamarine with ends of silvered ivory.

Handmade Lampwork Pendant - TROPICANA - by FinishingTouchJewels

A very large (approx 23mm x 22mm) silver cored encased one of a kind silver glass bead with beautiful embossed leaf sterling bead caps.

Large Silver Cored Focal Bead - Sky Blue Pink with Golden Dots by cheekycherubdesigns

This hedgehog has a dark and mysterious coat of blacks and misty blues, with tan paws and nose as if lit by the moon on a starry night.

Lampwork Moonlit hedgehog pendant in borosilicate glass by flyingbead

This big hole lampwork bead has 6 beautiful windows encasing the lovely effects of silvered glass and will fit on pandora and troll bracelets. It is copper cored over my handmade patterned copper bead caps.

Milky Way - Copper Cored Big Hole Lampwork Bead by dilunah

I adore these handmade lampwork beads, so many different colours run throughout them to make this a bespoke piece of jewellery. They have been made by a talented SRA artisan lampwork beadmaker from the UK.

Passion, lampwork and sterling silver necklace by charmedbymarie

Dress up your denim - beautiful things to wear created by talented members of FHFteam 2010 Enjoy, Jolene x

Monday 18 October 2010

Pick of the week - Inside a Rainbow

This bead will remind you of the fairground and trips to the circus for certain, its fun and sure to be noticed.

Carnival by Mangobeads

A Graduated set of 13 lampwork glass beads in a Rainbow of transparents, with a deep violet bumpy focal bead.

Dream a Rainbow Handmade Lampwork Bead set by ARjewellery

Multicoloured Clown is a deeply encased oval focal bead created with raku, purple, red and yellow glass.

Multicoloured Clown by MyPrecious

23 spacer beads made from transparent and opaque glass, with silvered ivory stringer detail.

Etched rainbow spacer bead bracelet by blackheartbeads

This listing is for a set of 6 Sunspots buttons, in different colours - pink, purple, blue, green, orange and yellow - with random coloured spots

Sunspots Buttons .. handmade glass buttons by LushLampwork

Red and yellow and pink and green
Purple and orange and blue
I can sing a rainbow,
sing a rainbow,
sing a rainbow too.
FHFteam 2010 Enjoy, Jolene x

Friday 8 October 2010

All the colours....

All the colours......
... of the rainbow. Another collection by the fabulously talented Frit Happens Team curated by BumpyBeads

Thursday 7 October 2010

Pick of the week - Forever Flowers

Wear a special poppy this year - this beauty is made from glass and shaped in the torch. It is attached to a sterling silver ring

Poppy ring - glass and sterling silver by littlecastledesigns

This large millefiori pendant is wonderfully detailed. It has a large sterling silver bail on the back.

Large millefiori pendant by blackheartbeads

Deep purple and pale lilac flowers feature on these polymer clay lentil beads; the set comprises 4 earring or spacer beads, and 6 larger beads.

Flowering at Midnight - Polymer Clay Bead Set by ContinuumDesigns

9 beautiful lampwork encased beads, created with clear, pink, coral, white and blue glass.

Jungle Speed - glass beads made by MyPrecious

Pretty abstract fused glass hanging with copper inclusions.

Forever Flowers Fused Glass Hanging by helenbluefairy

Everlasting floral beauty from FHFteam 2010 Hope you like, Jolene.

Saturday 2 October 2010

All the leaves are brown

All the leaves are brown
A fall/autumn inspired treasury from the FHFteam Etsy Street Team curated by helbels

Pick of the week - Recyled, upcycled and boozy

This is a striking bottle stopper with the largest bead measuring 22x33mm

Bumpy bead bottle stopper by blackheartbeads

I'm really excited about my new

Recycled Lampwork Bracelet by RedsBeads

Unique, one of a kind wine bottle stopper in lampwork borosilicate - boro - glass, with a wine genie (or siren?) in pinks and purples.

Wine bottle stopper, lampwork borosilicate glass - Elvira by flyngbead

The lampwork beads were made by me using recycled glass from a Bombay Sapphire Gin bottle

Upcycled Bombay Sapphire Earrings by Sineon2

Inside a solid glass marble I've formed a little bit of ocean! There are some swirling blues and greens, some little bubbles, and even a little bit of seaweed, but the object that really dominates is a jellyfish!

Jellyfish Glass Marble Bottle Stopper by steampunkglass

Recyled, upcycled and boozy gifts from FHFteam 2010 Enjoy, Jolene.

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