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Your Dream Glass Trip

Posted by BorntoBeadnz on June 15, 2011

Hi everyone,

Cora Bailey recently did Anastasia’s workshop and has asked us for help to plan a dream trip.

Cora has an opportunity to put together a couple of specialist overseas trips, and she wondered what would be your dream trip? The thought that visiting one or some of the US bead shows, maybe kiln and gear manufacturers, definitely glass manufacturers, Venice and Murano, Czech Republic? India for bulk manufacturer? The idea is to put together a dream list, then see what is possible, then see what the costs are and adjust from there.

Please send responses to Cora at CBBaillie@gmail.com

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Announcing the winners of the 2011 Annual Glass Bead Competition

Posted by BorntoBeadnz on June 10, 2011

Congratulations to:

Focal Bead Category

Winner – Andrew Firth “iSpy”
Andrew wins Glass pack to the value of $100 donated by Creation is Messy through Affordable Inspirations as well as a Book & DVD (ex NZGBA Library)

Highly commended – Karen Irwin “Too Late the genie is out of the bottle”
Karen wins a Book (ex NZGBA Library)

Bead Set Category

Winner – Lisa-Jane Harvey “Picasso”
Lisa-Jane wins a Glass pack to the value of $100 through Born to Bead and a Book & DVD (ex NZGBA Library)

Highly commended – Emily Lake “Goddess Set”
Emily wins a Book (ex NZGBA Library)

Sculptural Bead Category

Winner – Karilea “Spa Orchid”
Karliea wins a Sauvarins Glass voucher to the value of $100 and Book & DVD (ex NZGBA Library)

Highly Commended – Emily Lake “Butterfly Woman”
Emily won a Book (ex NZGBA Library)

Off Mandrel

Winner – Andrew Firth “Starling”
Andrew wins a Glass pack to the value of $100 purchased from Born to Bead and Book & DVD (ex NZGBA Library)

Highly Commended – Karilea
Karilea wins a Book (ex NZGBA Library)

Viewers choice – Lisa-Jane “Picasso”

Lisa-Jane wins a Glass pack to the value of $100 purchased from Born to Bead and Book & DVD (ex NZGBA Library)

Overall Winner

Lisa-Jane Harvey – Picasso wins the $500 gift voucher sponsored by Affordable Inspirations 

Door Prize Raffle Draw Winners:

CG Beadrollers – Anastasia and Helen Moore
Double Helix – Karen Ritchie
Best Dressed – Geoffrey Bunker

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May Challenge Winner = Shirlee Wilton

Posted by Karen Mitchell on June 6, 2011

Congratulations to Shirlee Wilton who has won the May Challenge.

A big thanks again to Kerry @ Affordable Inspiration for donating a $50 store voucher.

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Emily’s Course

Posted by IslaOsborne on June 2, 2011

I just wanted to say how great Emily’s course was yesterday. She’s a really focused tutor and we all learnt a great deal about blowing glass on the torch. thanks emily. x isla

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May Challenge Karen Mitchell

Posted by Karen Mitchell on May 31, 2011

A set of flowers from me….

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May Challenge Karen Irwin

Posted by Karen Irwin on May 21, 2011

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May Challenge by Claire Taylor

Posted by Claire Taylor on May 12, 2011

I wanted to enter this bead into the May challenge.
It is an oblong tab bead with honeycomb on both sides. It features two little honey bees (Barney and Frizz…think about it…got it? lol) and has a drip of honey on one side. This is part of my ‘Honey Bee mine’ series that I am currently exploring.

I love the way the honeycomb came out on this, as it really does have the seperated hexagons of a real honeycomb :)



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May Bead Challenge – Shirlee Wilton

Posted by Shirlee Wilton on May 6, 2011

Flowers – any colour they still look bright. These are my flowers on a stick for potplants

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Isla Osborne – May Challenge

Posted by IslaOsborne on May 5, 2011

Hi guys,

My entry for the May challenge… It’s called Brown Infection and is a collection of lampworked glass viruses on acrylic. The piece is from my current body of work called “The winter of my discontent”.

I know that we don’t generally think of viruses as beautiful, viewed objectively however, they can be seen as objects of splendid complexity. Beautiful nature.

x isla

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May Challenge…..

Posted by Karen Mitchell on May 2, 2011

Welcome to the May Monthly Challenge….  This month the challenge is: “Nature”

Anything goes… flowers, beaches, animals, sky, mud pools, grass, lightening, trees, snow, rivers, sun, bla bla bla

Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world.  “Nature” refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic.

The May prize is a A$50 store gift voucher from Affordable Inspiration.  Thank you Kerry!

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