The Bead Report

by Kerry S. Caron & Suzanne Basnett

Beer N Beadz November 2008

Sunlight Art Glass, Surrey BC

Ania, Lynne and Cathy starting off the night.

Ania, Elizabeth, Melanie (newbie) and Melanie Rowe talk about beads.

 The guys as always, hang out near the food and drink.

Paul playing camera shy.

Tamara explains the demo she is going to do using the new Double Helix Triton.

 Tamara starts to get glass on the mandrel.

 Lynne and an upcoming young artist (Liam) look on.

 Tamara is adding one more colour to her bead.

 Now she melts in the last colour.

 Now the bead is ready for decorating with a thin Triton stringer Tamara pulled earlier.

 Tamara scrolls the Triton stringer on the bead.

 Tamara reducing the Triton decoration...that's one big flame!!!

 A few years ago a group of pyros got together and created this angel. Isn't she purty?

  Lynne, Elizabeth, Melanie and Barb talk about beads.

 Demos went on through the night.

  Now that Suzanne is taking the pictures Kerry can be in the pictures.

 Lynne, Kerry and Melanie discuss the demonstration.

  Elizabeth looking on.

 Kerry hits the torch for a demo.

  Kerry starts her bead. Sorry but the finished bead didn't survive.

  Ania and Melanie watching and talking.

 The glass talk continues.

 Barb helps Liam choose the glass for his first torch time.

 Barb explains the process for making a bead.

 Barb is so very patient with her young student and Elizabeth looks on.

 Liam is torching on his own as Barb looks on.

 Melanie gets on the torch.

 


Kerry looks on as Melanie torches a large bicone.

 

 

Melanie searches through her pocketful of beads to find just the right one for the exchange.

 And finally - here's the bead exchange.


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