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Rick Foss - Ottawa Glass Bead Artists Show 2009

ogba — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:59:06 +0000

Artist Name : Rick Foss

Tell us something about yourself/bio/other interests?
I like to
skate, create…

How long have you been making glass beads (or beading, or designing jewellery)?
I have been making jewellery for thirty years. Fifty years ago my father showed me how to melt glass in the family hibachi. I started melting glass again a few years ago to add my own decorations to my silver jewellery creations.

What inspires you?
My relation to the universe.

Tell us about your best beadmaking/jewellery moment…
Gazing at my first cabochons coming out of the kiln.
Tell us about your worst beadmaking/jewellery moment…
Late night packing before any show.

What will you be bringing to the 2009 OGBA Show?
My glass cabs and beads set in silver and not. Other silver and commercial bead creations. Perhaps some glass sculpture.

Lily Sanchez - Ottawa Glass Bead Artists Show 2009

ogba — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:00:30 +0000

Artist Name
Lily Sanchez

Website www.latinbeadsjewelry.com (only after November 9, 2009)

Tell us something about yourself/bio/other interests?
Since my childhood in South America I have been painting in oils, acrylics, pastels, when I learned about glass beads, I became addicted to this fun way of playing with glass.

How long have you been making glass beads (or beading, or designing jewellery)?
I started in 2003 in Calgary in Alberta College of Art.

What inspires you?
Everything that surrounds me, the wonderful colours of nature mostly.

Tell us about your best beadmaking/jewellery moment…
when I settled my studio at home and made the first bead, yeah!!!!

Tell us about your worst beadmaking/jewellery moment…
after I finish a piece of jewelry and the combination of colors is terrible!!!

What will you be bringing to the 2009 OGBA Show?
All my new creations, after experimenting with some new forms.

Erin Maloney - Ottawa Glass Bead Artist Show 2009

ogba — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:43:55 +0000

Artist Name
Erin Maloney a.k.a AirWynn Glass Designs

Website
www.airwynnglass.com

Tell us something about yourself/bio/other interests?
I’ve always been an artist. I’ve dabbled in lots of different mediums as most artists do. When I’m not making beads; I enjoy interior design, graphic design, cooking and baking, camping, swimming and enjoying a nice dinner/night out with my loving fiance (we’ve been together for nearly 10 years now). We’ve just purchased our first home and are looking forward to moving in March 2010 and planning our wedding! I am an animal-lover. I take pride in being “green” and doing what I can to help our environment. I am also a graphic designer, with a small home-based business on the side. I prefer diet Pepsi to diet Coke. I love sushi, Chinese food, and Italian food! If you want to know more about me, stop by my booth and introduce yourself!

How long have you been making glass beads (or beading, or designing jewellery)?
I’ve been making lampwork beads for 6 years.

What inspires you?
I take inspiration from a lot of different things I see in everyday life. It could be something in nature that forms my inspiration for my more organic-styled beads or a circus clown’s costume for my bold and colourful style. I tend to teeter-totter from one style to the other… whatever strikes my mood at the time.

Tell us about your best beadmaking/jewellery moment…
I have a “best” beadmaking moment every single time I challenge myself to a new design or a new shape that I have visualized in my mind. After numerous attempts and then being completely 100% satisfied with the outcome, confident I can make anything I want… that gives me my “best” moment feeling!

Tell us about your worst beadmaking/jewellery moment…
I was making a sculptural rose where all of the petals and leaves needed to be made ahead of time and kept warm. While re-introducing one of the petals back into the flame before attaching it to the stem, my pliers lost grip of the nearly-molten glass and the petal fell onto my lap. It instantly burned right through my pants and left a hefty burn on my skin too! Needless to say it took me a while to attempt a sculptural flower again!

What will you be bringing to the 2009 OGBA Show?
At my booth you will find a large assortment of handmade glass beads, some of which will utilize subtle neutral colours and textures and others that will knock your socks off with vivid colours! You may also have heard me referred to as “The Bone Lady” (a nick-name I can’t decide if I like or not! haha) because I am known for creating realistic-looking bone beads for the dog lover, Halloween lover, or the historian! I will have ready-to-wear handmade glass pendants I like to call “Fairy Pods”. Lastly, I also sell “Add-A-Bead Pendants” that are a great interchangeable pendant that allows you to slip a bead on to match whatever you’re wearing that day!
Hope you all will come and check out my booth!

My first bead show is this saturday!

shebamakeda — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:06:41 +0000

I’ll be selling my beads (along with 21 other local and Canadian glass bead artists) in this show:

Ottawa Glass Bead Artists’ (OGBA)

First Annual Bead & Jewellery Show 2008
* A Showcase of ‘Hand Made’ Glass Beads, Jewellery & Bead Work *
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
10AM – 5PM
RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario

http://www.ottawaglassbeadartists.com/

I’ll definitely have a variety of goddesses there – as well as smaller beads and focals that can be worn as pendants. If you’re in the neighbourhood, please stop by and bring a friend – there will be some great holiday shopping…
See you at the show!

Evelyn
ShebaMakeda Glass Art
evelyn(at)shebamakeda.com

I’m table #2 at the show – here’s a rough layout of what my table will look like – still a little tweaking to complete and lots more beads to add.

Thanks to my neighbour Sean for helping me put this together!