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. I will be teaching a class for new, or fairly new, glass bead makers. Or if you have taken a couple classes but feel you need more practice, this is the class for you! It is also suitable for anyone who is just getting started using a minor bench burner to melt glass and make beads. The class will be a day and a half. We supply all tools and supplies. May 4-5, 2013 - Glass Beadmaking Weekend- Saturday, 9:30am-4:30pm and Sunday, noon - 4:30 May 18-19, 2013 - Glass Beadmaking Weekend - Saturday, 9:30am-4:30pm and Sunday, noon - 4:30 June 8-8, 2013 - Glass Beadmaking Weekend - Saturday, 9:30am-4:30pm and Sunday, noon - 4:30 June 22-23, 2013 - Glass Beadmaking Weekend - Saturday, 9:30am-4:30pm and Sunday, noon - 4:30 June 29-30, 2013 - Glass Beadmaking Weekend - 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 13, 2013
On May 16, 2013, Gifts Inn Boonsboro's is hosting a Girls Night Out - Thursday evening from 6-9pm. This is something new for me and I think, will be a lot of fun. Since GIB already carries a nice selection of my work, I am bringing lots of loose beads! Including beads that fit the Pandora and Troll (and other) bracelet systems. Bring your bracelets to find that special, one of a kind glass bead. And bring a favorite chain and let us create a necklace together. I will have accent beads both in glass and sterling silver as well as some cables and cords to help you create that special piece! Here is a peek at a couple of the bead trays I am getting ready for you! I plan on having at least 5 trays! As well as two smaller trays of the bracelet beads! Lots of goodies! 
April 9, 2013 I'm back!!!! Back in Maryland! We've unpacked the trailer and I finally got back into the studio today. No new beads to show yet - but hopefully soon. I am getting ready for the Virginia Hot Glass Festival, April 27 & 28, at Sunspots Studio in Staunton, VA. Hope to have some new things to show all the terrific people who always attend this show. Mark your calendar! This is a must see show! All glass!!!!!! I didn't get as much new glass I had hoped in Key West this year - it was very windy. I have an outside studio set up there that usually works out very well. But not this year. But I did so some awesome bead work with my teachers, Jean Disrud and Jenni Gerstle and the Monday afternoon beaders. Pictures below. And I am working on ideas to combine all these new techniques! Wonder where this will lead me? Keep checking!!! And, hopefully, soon some of these things will show up in my Etsy Shop! I took these two beaded kumihimo cords to KW in hopes of making glass flowers and beaded leaves. Jean taught me how to make Russian leaves and this is the result. 
Then I took a workshop with Jenni Gerstle and she and Jean, taught me how to make some of those sulptural techniques in Kate McKinnon's new book on geometric beadwork. Here's what I did! 
Keep checking here and on my Facebook page to see more! February 4, 2013 One of the items on my to do list this winter was to open an Etsy Shop so people could purchase my work on line. Welllllll........ Drum roll......... I have just opened Debby Weaver Beads (take out the spaces to find me) on Etsy. There is not a huge amount of work in there so far but I will be adding more. I also need to find out some of the ins and outs of that on line world in order to spread the word. But you all been very patient and have asked about buying on line so here we go! Any suggestions are always welcome! Follow this link to check me out!!! Debby's Etsy Shop Here are some new flowers I just made. They are not on Etsy but are for a major project that I am working on - combination of kumihimo, seed beading and lamp work. I do have some ideas cooking in this ol' brain! Stay tuned! 
January 21, 2013 Happy New Year! Yes, I know I am pretty late wishing you that. I guess I got everything done I needed to do for the holidays and kinda went on vacation. I am on Facebook but I don't know how to put a link here! Look me up! We made our annual trip to Key West earlier this year. We got down here in time for New Year's Eve and we will be here until April 1 when we head home. Thankfully, we have a wonderful house sitter who will not only be living in our home while we are gone but will be taking care of the kitties. Thank you so very much, good friend! And this trip will be different because I will not be doing my usual Keys shows. I am taking a break and going to work on some new ideas without the pressure of getting ready for shows. My first show this year will not be until the end of April when I will again be doing the Virginia Hot Glass Festival in Staunton, VA. One other thing I am going to be working on this winter - an Etsy site. Since I do not have a shopping cart on this site, I am planning on dipping my toe into online sales this way. Everyone says I should. Fingers crossed that I can figure it out! Keeping checking back. As I come up with new things, I will post them here and on Facebook. and a very Happy New Year to you all! November 13, 2012 This show is awesome! Quite a selection of artists' work including mine. Please come and begin your holiday shopping - supporting local artists, supporting small businesses, supporting "Made in America" products! You'll hit it out of the ball park! 
November 5,2012 This coming weekend (November 10-11. 2012) is the Annual Fall Bead Bazaar sponsored by the Bead Society of Greater Washington. I have done this great bazaar in Gaithersburg for lots of years and always find treasures I have to come home with as well see new and returning customers. Follow this link to access a discount card for the entrance fee. At the last show I did, people requested beads that would fit the new leather bracelets I had. I only had finished bracelets, but for this show I have been making loose beads if you are making your own. Here are a few : 
I have also been exploring variations of the what I call my "Simply Elegant" beads: 
October 5, 2012 I have been busy getting ready for the Northern Virginia Bead Society's Annual Bead Show this coming weekend. Below is a hint at some of the new beads - from wonkie to elegant!! Please come see the whole selection! Below is a $ off coupon. 
September 16, 2012 Just finished a fun weekend with four awesome students at the Delaplaine in Frederick, MD. We had fun - laughed a lot! - and made lots of cool beads!!!! Hope we get some more folks the next time, too. I love sharing the wonder of melting glass and making beads! 
August 22, 1012 I'm home!!!!! - from the ISGB Gathering in Seattle and the trip to Alaska! Still doing laundry and catching up. And, of course, I have made no new work since mid-July. But I have all kinds of new ideas. As soon as things settle here a bit, I will be on the torch! Hopefully with lots of new work. I had a wonderful time but it is time to be home and working for a bit. I will be posting pictures as soon as I can spend some serious time on the computer. Stay tuned! July 20, 2012 Where is this summer going??? I am off to Bellvue, WA (Seattle area) for the ISGB 20th Annual Gathering. Very exciting!!!! I will see old friends and make new ones. And I'll see lots and lots of beautiful handmade glass beads. And get ideas. While I am on the other side of the country, I am planning on going on to ALASKA! Woo-hoo!!!! It will be a while until I get home again but I can't wait for all the ideas and inspiration!!! Should be an exciting fall in the studio this year! May 29, 2012 I have a fresh pot of plant stakes priced and ready to go to the Gift Gallery at Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, Frederick, MD! And I took another pot of them to Gifts Inn Boonsboro Boonsboro, MD, yesterday! Just in time for you to put them into your flowering pots. And since they don't fade, they'll be good for indoor plants come fall. I will be at the Delplaine this Sat and Sun (June 2-3, 2012) as one of the demoing artists from the Frederick Hot Glass Society. This weekend Frederick Festival of the Arts will be taking over downtown Frederick and there will lots going on. Come by the Delaplaine and see what all we are up to! All the artists demonstrating flame work, will also have work in the Gift Gallery for sale! 
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! As always - enjoy each day to the fullest! Debby |
