Howtos,
FAQs, etc

new index created 05jan10.

20090407

A series of large hollow pressed focal with pressed daisy motif, made with pi glass . Originally posted 07apr09.

 
20061228

Kids are natural designers, as this page demonstrates when several of my nieces and nephews had a post-holiday stringing party. Originally posted 28dec06.

 
20070109

abstracta howto . created 27nov06; add'l material, primarily intro, 9jan07.

 
20061018

Artist's statements , oh how thrilling, of three lengths and vintages, and if you manage to survive those, a working methods as well.

 
20060614

FAQ . Includes some guff about how to buy stuff, plus boring as hell marginally more interesting info like the origin & pronounciation of the company name. Here's the page for specifics on purchasing the orange curliQ beads featured in the Oct03 Beadwork Mag, woefully out of date, but left h...

 
20051210

A recipe (with pix) of a family tradition. Originally posted 10dec05

 
20051203

I've updated the stringing howtos link to reflect the fact that at some point in time I collected the various posts, some of which used to be listed below, together on their own page. Scattershot to be sure, but at least there are now instructions for making bead curtain strands . Updated 0...

 
20050601

Glass Bead howtos and technical matters . As currently set up, the howto pages include studio and photography links as well.

 
20040522

Just the one bead , but includes a shot of the setup used to photograph it, too. (posted 17dec03)

 
20040522

How I make my Variation on Traditional Pysanky