Classes 2012 Classes at Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, Frederick, MD (register through their website) I will add more dates for classes as they are added to their schedule. We are trying something a little new this summer. I will be teaching a class for new, or fairly new, glass bead makers. It is suitable for anyone who is just getting started using a minor bench burner to melt glass and make beads. And it will be a day and a half. We supply all tools and supplies. June 30 - July1, 2012 - Beginning Glass Beadmaking - Saturday, 9:30am-4:30pm and Sunday, noon - 4:30 JULY 14 - 15, 2012 - Beginning Glass Beadmaking - Saturday, 9:30am-4:30pm and Sunday, noon - 4:30 PLEASE! If you ever find that links on this site are not working properly or there are any other problems, please email me at debbyweaver7@yahoo.com 
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May 16, 2012
A week or so ago, a friend and I went to see another friends' daughter in her high school production of "Little Shop of Horrors". Several years ago I had made glass flower stakes but not recently. Well, "Audrey II" inspired me. I had to make one for this girl. Then I started some new variations of my older flowers. What do you think? 
May 15, 2012 WOW! I thought things were busy before, they have been even busier since we got back from Key West. While we were there, I made connections to two new locations. Click here to link up with my information page and get information about the Shoppers Wharf in Bays Head, NJ, and the Wine Cottage in Key West, FL. The end of April, I traveled to Staunton, VA, for the 10th Annual Virginia Hot Glass Festival. I have also recently added new work to Gifts Inn Boonsboro and Delaplaine Visual Arts Gift Gallery just in time for Mother's Day! Things really have been busy.
Now that I am getting the hang of my new laptop, I sure hope to be able to post information and pictures more often. So please check back! March 20, 2012 Hi, Everyone, No, I have not fallen off the face of the earth. My faithful iBook finally crashed and died. And I could not edit my web page from my iPad. I had to make a decision and finally did. I got an MacBook Pro. Love it!!! But still have a lot to get used to. So no new pictures at the moment but it will all come together eventually. Just wanted to let you know I was still here! This weekend I will be doing a lamp work demo from 10am-4pm at the Wine Cottage on Eaton here in Key West. Please come by and see how my beads are made. Susan O'Neill will also be working on her paintings. Lots of interesting things going on at this interesting location in Old Town Key West. (Plus you can get a treat at the Old Town Bakery next door!!!) February 6, 2012 We are really enjoying our time in Key West. So much so it has taken me awhile to get our photo gallery up and running. But it is now! If you would like to check out some of your pictures, just go tot he link at the bottom of this page. We will be updating it as frequently as we can! Wifi is not as reliable as we would like and I can't seem to edit the page on my iPad - got to figure out why! Hope everyone is enjoying their February! February 1, 2012 (already!!!) We have been really busy since last I posted. The middle of the month we made our annual trip to Key West for the winter. When we first got down here, we had friends from Wisconsin come for a few days. Had a wonderful time showing them all around. After they left, I began my morning water exercise classes and spent a lot of time getting ready for the Key West Craft Show. That was last week. Fun show! Good sales! Now I am trying to get a studio set up beside our travel trailer so I can make beads down here. Gary has been kayaking and fishing with his buddies and generally enjoying being south. We have a friend living in our house this year and taking care of the kitties so we are not too worried about things up there but they are generally having a mild winter anyway. We haven't gotten the picture section of the web page set up but we will. We are having too much fun!!! Tee-hee! Here is a picture of my booth at the show: 
January 3, 2012 Really? It is a new year! Hope everyone is ready - I'm not sure I am. I have been trying to get into the studio and make new beads every day this year! So far, so good! Tee-Hee!!! I don't think I will be able to keep up that record but . . . . The big thing is that the first show of the year is this weekend! The Baltimore Bead Society is having their annual Winter Bead Bazaar and I will be here! Come and see what is cookin' for 2012 so far. 
December 15, 2011 Wow! The shows are over and there is new work in the Galleries in time for Christmas shopping. I have some orders to fill and the 2012 shows to look forward to. But right now, I am going to enjoy this very special time of the year. I have preformed in one choral concert and have another one this coming Sunday. Gary has had his band concert. The church choirs are working on music for Christmas eve and Christmas morning. (you can tell singing in the choir is an important part of my life!) I am having "lunch" with all kinds of friends - Whoo hoo! And a coupld Christmas dinners and parties - more Whoo hoo! Celebrate the season! I am! I have been making bunches of stoppers and have new ones at Gifts Inn Boonsboro and Delaplaine Visual Arts Gift Gallery. Here is a peek at a few of them! 
December 1, 2011 Come on down to the Delaplaine this Saturday (11-6) to see all the goodies Beth and I will have for you holiday shopping. One of the very newest items will be pendants Beth has made from my glass cabs. We will be selling them on black silk ribbon (to save you some money) but also have sterling chains available! This is our last show before the holidays. As always, a selection of our work will be available at the Galleries that usually carry our work: East Street Beads Gifts Inn Boonsboro Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center Buy Local! - Buy Handmade in America! - Support Small Business! 
November 17, 2011 What a busy time of the year! I had a nice show last weekend in Gaithersburg and I know many of you attended. I mostly had loose beads available there. Today I am taking many of my beads to East Street Beads, here in Frederick, MD. This is my only location that carries my loose beads and the new cabs for bead embroidery and metal work. This coming weekend, I will be participating in the Yuletide Craft Show in Burkittsville, MD. I will have some loose beads and cabs there for my bead collectors and jewelry makers, but I will also have a large variety of finished work for those looking for unique gifts. In fact, all of the artists will have great gifts for your list. So before going to the Mall on Black Friday (horrors!!!), please come check out our selection. 
November 8, 2011 This coming weekend the Bead Bazaar sponsored by the Bead Society of Greater Washington is being held In Gaithersburg, MD, the Activity Center at Bohrer Park. This is a terrific bazaar with all kinds of goodies available. I will have loose beads and cabs and some finished work. Just in time for your holiday gift giving. Please remember that when you buy and wear an item of mine or another artist, you are getting a one of a kind item that you will not see other people wearing. It will be unique! And when you incorporate a bead or cab into your own work, it is even more unique! Please come and see all the eye candy! 
I got everything done except the clasp. Planning (fingers crossed) on having that on and having this at the show this weekend. Silvered Green Glow. 
October 17, 2011 I finished a new bead embroidery bracelet I call Purple Bling. I had started it and was not sure I wanted to finish it. With lots of encouragment from my friend, I finished it and I am so glad I did. this one is softer - does not have a brass band inside. So I added the clasp and extender. Something new for me. Unfortunately, I could not get a picture of it on my own wrist! Tee-hee! Enjoy! 
October 4, 2011 Heads up!!! I just took new work over to Gifts Inn Boonsboro, in Boonsboro, MD. I swapped out earrings and some older work and added some new - especially the new small bead bracelets and bead embroidery cuffs. Go see!!! September 29, 2011 I just got back from East Street Beads, here in Frederick, MD. I had pulled all the beads and cabs I had there for the show I did last weekend. Today Dawn and Cindy picked from all of my work for the the shop. There are lots of my new cabs for bead embroidery and wire work, including the Victorian Florals in lots of colors - if you don't see a color or size/shape you want, ask for it. I will make it! I also left a good selection of beads in fall colors just in time for crisper days ahead - including leaves and acorns. All of my Venetian masks that have not been made into completed pieces are in the showcase! And there is a nice selection of other beads as well. So please stop by and check out all the goodies! September 22. 2011 I will be at the Northern Virginia Bead Bazaar this weekend - at it's new location at the the Annandale Campus of the Northern Virginia Community College. Lots of space - everyone in the same room! - and lots of parking. And, of course, lots of eye candy! I will have lots of my new glass cabs and some new bead styles as well as some of your other favorite styles. Print out the card below to save on the entrance fee! And one fee is good for both days!!! Ask at the door for details. 
September 11, 2011 - A Day of Rememberence As I go through what should be a normal Sunday, and is because we live in this country, I can not neglect to mention how hard this day will be for so many. But I have hope. Hope that we are all working for a better country and world, no matter our political leanings. Today for me will be spent in front of the TV, remembering; going to church, praying; and being with those who I am so lucky to have in my life. If I can, I'll also make some beads. Yesterday, I finished etching a number of Victorian Floral cabs. They have been quite popular and in two weeks I hope to have these and other cab designs at the Northern Virginia Bead Society, Annual Bead Bazaar at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, VA. (Sept. 24-25, Saturday 10-5, Sunday 10:30-4:30). I am also trying to have some new beads and masks. I'll look forward to seeing you there. 
HAPPY LABOR DAY! September 5, 2011 Yeasterday I took a class at East Street Beads, here in Frederick, MD. I am trying to learn a number of different beads stitches so I can use my beads in different ways. This is right Angle Weave and I used odd beads for the dangles left over from making earrings! 
Fellow beadmaker, Trey Cornette, recently posted some new beads in his Etsy shop that I just love. He told me the colors that he was using and I used them and took off from there, I hope my beads inspired by his are a bit different. I hope! Got me thinking a bit outside my box. So I'm going to play some more with these. 
BTW - I dropped off about 10 of my lampworked cabs at East Street Beads yesterday when I took the class. Two have already gone out the door and I have an order for another. If you like to do bead embroidery or wire wrapping, please stop by and check them out! August 29, 2011 I haven't made bumby beads for awhile but I have a customer who wanted some to complete a necklace she started when I was doing them before. So here they are! Quite a few have metallic glass used that creates really interesting results. Anglea will have first choice but then the rest will be for sale on my table at the Northern Virginia Bead Bazaar at the end of September. 
September 24-25, 2011, Northern Virginia Bead Society, Annual Bead Bazaar at Northern Virginia Community College in Annadale, VA. Saturday 10-5, Sunday 10:30-4:30 August 25, 2011 I have been making cabs for my recent bead embroidery projects. Here are some of them. I will have some available at the bead bazaars I will be participating in this coming fall - not too far away! 
And here are some of them made up into pins. With one of those conversion findings, they could easily also be pendants. Mrs. Obama has been wearing a lot of large, awesome pins. I do believe pins are "IN"!!!! 
Check out my Facebook page to follow my progress on the current starfish cuff. August 18, 2011 I finished the Victorian Floral cuff I showed you below. And it has already found a home. Working on some other ideas using the seed beads! 
 Detail of one side.
And I just finished this set, too. The pendant can be worn as a pin or a pendant. The beaded kumihimo cord can be worn by itself or as the "cord" for the pendant. 
August 9, 2011 In many ways this summer has really flown! The end of July I was able to go to the ISGB Gathering in Louisville, KY. What an awesome event! I have only missed one of these events in the last 14 years - it is a "must do" for my beadmaking soul. And my new knee held up very well. I have all kinds of ideas but have yet to get on the torch and work on them. I did something to my back the night before we headed home and 2 days of driving did not help it (we went to Ohio to visit friends before heading back to Maryland). But tomorrow is the day! I plan to get back on it tomorrow! I did finish the beaded cuff I had started before I left. Here it is before I glue it onto the brass form, line it, and finish the edge. You can see the pattern better but I do plan to get a picture when it is finished. (I did reach my goal of 120 for my knee rotation before I went!!!) 
As always - enjoy each day to the fullest! Debby |
