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

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

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

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

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 Here's the page for specifics on purchasing the orange curliQ beads featured in the Oct03 Beadwork Mag, woefully out of date, but left h...

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

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...

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

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

How I make my Variation on Traditional Pysanky