Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year everybody :) I wish you all the best in 2010.

If making resolutions does not work for you, but you'd still like to have a bit of focus during the year, I'd like to point you to this lady, Christine Kane, and her 'word of the year' instead. She is excellent.

And if you can see the moon where you are, go check out the tiny bit of an eclipse happening right now! Awesome end of the year :)

So - much success, health and happiness to you and yours!
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I made the Nifty!

Yes, I made a lovely fine bead. This is it, and it includes frit which is something you have rarely seen from me. But - I think I may need to get me some more, I like it!
This is zimmerman, dark rose (I think), which seems much more colourfull when not encased. Strange, I'll have to explore that. I'll also have to make a new bead, one that includes a bit of olivegreen with all the purple. I bet it would be delicious :)



Do let me know of any frits I need to try. I like strong, but muted colours. Think 'autumn'.

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I'm on You Tube!

And I didn't even put me there myself :)
It was the ladies of 'Millionøse metoden', Kirsten Stendevad & Christine Eilvig.
That's me in the red blouse in the front, at 3:33 and also my nose at 1:31 :)
Is this my 15 minutes?

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New Fibulas

I made these for a customer and was very pleased with the result. So was she, yay! :)
These have an ekstra bead, compared to the ones I have made before. I always loved an uneven number more than an even number, but these look well ballanced, so I am happy.



Next year I will raise my price on these, but for the rest of this year I will take orders at the same low price(350Dkr/$70).

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We have a Winner!

Monday night marked the end of my collection at Kræftens Bekæmpelse.
With the help of my lovely assistant we now have a winner.





Congratulations Lone!

Lone has her own lampwork website full of nifty beads and jewelry she has made, and also a new blog. Go visit her :)

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A Goddess Request

Some days ago I had a request, to see if I could make a goddess bead that would fit the Danish charm/bracelet series(Troll & Pandora). An excellent challenge since I have just cored my first beads.
These are my first attempts, front and back:





As bracelet beads go, these are quite large, around 2cm long, but I have tried to keep the diameter fairly slim. Since these are for a bracelet they do not need to be perfectly ballanced, which is nice for these front-heavy ladies.
I am not sure these two can be cored, so I will work on getting the rim of the holes even, and also on getting them a little bit smaller.

Now to see if I can make goddesses with the hole going horizontally ...

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Kiva Anniversary!

Yesterday was my 2 year anniversary as a lender at kiva.org.

I like Kiva. If you don't know it go check it out :)



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