http://kuistudios.com/journal Idle Dreams of a Glass Bead Maker Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:24:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome! If you’ve found your way here for the Lampwork Carnival, welcome to my tiny corner of the world. If you came here just to catch up with me, you are in for a treat! This is the July edition of the Lampwork Carnival, with a theme of “other creative ... http://kuistudios.com/journal/?p=21 Hope everyone had a great 4th of July holiday! Riley enjoyed a day home from school, and staying up late to go watch fireworks. She especially enjoyed setting up in the back of the pickup and eating bags and bags of popwork -- she thought it was like a camp-out. ... http://kuistudios.com/journal/?p=20 I'm really pretty proud to say that I'm going to be featured in a very small column in the local paper for my lampworking. The column is too short to even amount to 15 minutes of fame -- so I'm calling it 15 seconds! This is the piece (or collection) ... http://kuistudios.com/journal/?p=18 As most beadmakers/beadsellers know -- you've got to learn how to take decent pictures of your beads! If you want to sell them, if you want to show them on the forums, if you want to put them on your website -- you've got to have a decent picture. The ... http://kuistudios.com/journal/?p=17 We are back from vacation, settling back into the school/work routine -- and time to get back to some bead business!! But -- first -- here is my beautiful baby at her Spring Dance Recital! She did a wonderful job, and had a great time. The original intended costumes never ... http://kuistudios.com/journal/?p=16 Tomorrow, I begin a week-long vacation! Well, after a dance recital, church, and church musical ... then we begin our vacation!!  It is the only real vacation I have planned this summer, so am really looking forward to it. Riley, of course, is ecstatic! Are you familiar with blog carnivals? They ... http://kuistudios.com/journal/?p=15 Happy Friday everyone! I can't believe it has been so long since I updated my journal! I haven't been writing much, but I have been busy! Check out this fish -- my first. His little tail broke off (twice) -- but I am still hugely proud of my first sculptural ... http://kuistudios.com/journal/?p=14 Last night I had the greatest time -- with my new lampworker friends in Columbia!! I attended a "bead jam" at Village Glass Works, and had a ball. It was wonderful to meet folks with a similar passion for glass beads, and to just commune informally. We had a couple ... http://kuistudios.com/journal/?p=13 Well -- you can't see much of the tulips in this pic -- but I loved this pic of Riley. At four years old, she is a seasoned model (for grandma, anyway!) Happy Spring, everyone! http://kuistudios.com/journal/?p=12 Remember those old housekeeping guides that set up a particular task for a particular day? In an effort at orderly beadmaking, I'm adopting a version of that. Monday is beadcleaning day -- so that is what I spent last night doing! Beadcleaning is not my favorite chore, and I ... http://kuistudios.com/journal/?p=11