Glasperletræf 2014 - Danish Glassbead Society yearly meet-up, Part Il, the Beadmarket

On sunday we welcome the public and set up a small market. This year it had grown to 11 booths with several new people joining in.

The new people included:

Frank Miguletz of FaxArt 
I were very impressed by the amount, the size and the precision of his beads. I had seen pictures online, but nothing beats the touching-holding of the real stuff.

 

Sabine Übelhör of Flammenliebe  
Sabine makes beautiful feminine beads and ringtops. Cute, colourful and full of details.

Dorthe Andersen-høyer
How fun to meet this lampworker, who is practically my neighboor :) And what beautiful flower necklaces she makes. I want the pink one! (or possibly the green or the golden/brown one)

Jane Bundgaard of Bundgaard strik og stearin 
maker of fabulous fun lampwork buttons, button bracelets and much more

 

Britta Christoffersen of Krea-huset  
I especially love her disc necklace. Wow!

Of the repeat sellers I'd like to show you

Martina Schlemminger of die Kleine Verroterie
Her booth is full of cute creatures and always colourfull

Manuela Hagn of BavarianBeads
offering up all her many, many presses and showing amazing beads made with them. Unfortunately all my close-ups had a lot of glare, so I only have Group shots for you.

Jens Kondrup of jckondrup
blower of very large 'chaos'-balls, and tripple connected schnaps glasses

 

 

Birgitte Ekholm Gaardsted of Ekholm Design
odd organic shapes flows from this lampworker

Lisbeth Larsen of Galleri Lisbeth L
Strict shapes in playful colours

Connie Sørensen of Søglas
a tray of colourful fish pendants

Bodil and Otto Zebitz
Many, many ideas spring forth from this lampworking couple

And of course, myself, Lene Piasecki of Profusion Art Glass :)
Pendants and pins galore

Sorry you missed it? Come by next year, or use the links :)

Glasperletræf 2014 - Danish Glassbead Society yearly meet-up, Part l, the Demos

What a great weekend, as always, when we have our annual lampwork meet-up.

I have taken so many pictures so I will split them up in a couple of posts. This first part is for the saturday demos. Do click the pictures for a better view.

Saturday is for members only, and wall to wall demos. A very interesting and fun day.

First up was the lovely Martina Schlemminger, who demoed first a cute spotted duck, then a little Swabish pig (not pictured here).

Martina Schlemminger

Manuela Hagn demoed a sweet old style teddybear. It was brown and without murini, but shaped like this lighter one from her booth.

Manuela Hagn

Then Frank Miguletz stepped in to show us a wigwag

Frank Miguletz

and Christiane Strauss set a ruby zirkonia into a ringtopper

Christiane Strauss

By then we were all very hungry and it was time for lunch.

After lunch Dorry Tierry Niclou showed her technique for hollow ringtops with things inside. Only very small things can go in as they have to pass through the nut in the bottom. She made two, one smooth and one with an impression of an ammonite on the top. Fascinating ...



Dorry Tierry Niclou

Frank Miguletz showed how to make his smiley beads

Frank Miguletz

and then it was time for the annual general assembly of the beadsociety. We went to have dinner at Øster Højst Kro afterwards.

When we returned Jens Kondrup made a nectar cup for butterflies, shaped like a flower, and a tiny goblet.

Jens Christian Kondrup

Tina Moslund showed us how to do enamels with a torch, and gave many tips for ending necklaces securely and putting locks on them. Very usefull information :)

Tina Moslund

By then I was very tired and took off for my B&B while others continued hanging out.
Saturday is always a very long, intensely informative and interesting day. I love it!

On sunday there were demos too, but alas I missed two since I spent the day tending my booth, mingling and doing some shopping :)

The two I missed were Jens Kondrup making his large hollow kaos beads, and Britta Christoffersen showing how to make a tiny beermug.

I did get to see Connie Sørensen making an ancient zigzag pattern

and Jane Bundgaard give tips on how to make buttons.

Oh, there are so many possibilities and not enough time to try it all :)