Just a heads-up for glass bead makers, or anyone interested in making glass beads:
I just wrote and posted a tutorial on how to make hearts, over at my bead blog. Check it out:
Lampwork Glass Bead Tutorial: Hearts
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From the category archives:
glass bead making
I’d like to introduce you to my other blog that is about glass beads. Making them, being inspired by them, etc. It’s also a looser format that contains some business stuff in a rambling fashion. Kind of like I’m doing right now.
The last couple days I have written about my own booth set up. There is so much information out there about good booth set up (Like Rena Klingenberg’s ebook that I advertise over there on the left) as well as Luann Udell’s recent blog posts about Good Booths Gone Bad. So, I won’t even try to tackle that subject! I’ve only been doing shows for a few years…they’re pros!
I would like you to introduce you to my other bead blog though and give you the opportunity to read a few of my findings regarding doing shows. Everyone has their own perspectives and what works…these two posts contain some of mine:
Presenting Beads for Sale – Necessity Breeds Invention
Tips Tuesday – Keep Your Booth Simple
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Are you a beadmaker? Have you ever thought about your title? I do, every time I write it or almost call myself one. Glass Beadmaker (that’s me). Polymer Clay Beadmaker. Ceramic Beadmaker. PMC Beadmaker. Etc. I’m not sure it applies as much to all media, so maybe this is focused mainly at glass beadmakers because that is what a lot of us call ourselves. Our guild/society is even called that. The International Society of Glass Beadmakers. ISGB.
You might be thinking that I’m going to go off on telling you what you should call yourself. An artist, a craftsperson, etc. But I’m not. Today I’m just musing around with a silly thought that goes through my head when I explain what I do.
I just can’t get away from it. Think about it. Glass Beadmaker. While the title is supposed to be one that describes what I/we do, I can’t help but reading it as just what it says. To me it says:
I am a beadmaker made of glass. Glass Beadmaker.
Then I go on to wonder, what would a better suited title?
I am a lampworker. But then, not everyone knows what that is so You have to go on to explain what that is. It would have been easier to say, ‘I am a glass beadmaker’ and hope that the listener doesn’t have the same ear as I do.
I make glass beads. That is what I usually say and it works for me but sounds a little lackluster.
The real trouble comes in when I have to write a short bio or blurb for say, the end of a blog for which I’m guest writing or a magazine article. Example:
Lori Greenberg is a glass beadmaker, working from her studio in Cave Creek, Arizona.
There it is again. Glass Beadmaker.
Lori Greenberg is a maker of glass beads. Ew.
It isn’t even proper to call oneself a Glass Bead Artist, for the same reasons, but it does appear better. Glass Bead Maker. Glass Bead-Maker. Such a quandry.
The image shown here is truly a Glass Beadmaker–Although Lewis Wilson is much more than that when it comes to glass–it’s a beadmaker, made of glass.
So, what do you think? Have you ever thought about this?
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