Sharing the Love of Glass Pearls Giveaway

I was over at my Youtube channel the other day,  Cindy Beads and I noticed that I have no followers.

Ouch!

If you go over there you'll see one of my favorites is Auntie's Beads. I love the wire wrap ring videos and have linked to one here before.

Just the other day, the good people at Auntie's Beads sent me some luscious glass pearls.

Yes, you can "ooo" and "ahhh!"

I've got these lovelies on my workbench to create with, but I'm willing to share some with you.

Go over to Cindy Beads on YouTube and become a subscriber and a friend and I'll enter you in a drawing to win a glass pearl mix courtesy of Auntie's Beads.

If you blog about it and leave a comment here, I'll enter your name twice. Please make sure your comment links to a blogger profile so I can reach you.

I'll announce the winner on my blog next Tuesday, December 28th.

Wednesday Wire: Get out there and make some rings!

I'm on a ring kick so I spent a few hours over the weekend watching YouTube wire wrapping ring videos. This one from Auntie's Beads is about 2-3 years old but it's the best of the bunch. Get out your craft wire and make some rings!

WireHead gets disappointed

Disappointed.

Yep, that's how I feel.

I cruised YouTube yesterday hoping to find a cool video on making jump rings but every single one I brought up is mashugana! Either it's too far away and you can't see it, or it takes too long to get the the actual demo or it's good but you have to have the tool they're selling to make the jump rings.

Sigh, guess you can't depend on the internet to offer up a good jump ring how-to video.

Lampworking on YouTube

YouTube is the people's broadcast network. You can see movies of anything and everything, from good quality to poor quality. I went on the tube the other day to check out the lampworking videos. I was thinking of posting some video on the blog. After screening some of the video, I decided not. The reason is you can't see the hot bead in the flame due to the soda flare from the glass. I won't go into a long explanation about soda flare but the reason flameworkers wear the rose colored glasses (didydium lenses) is that the rose color cancels out the soda flare. We, the audience, need to see the bead. I couldn't really get a good look at any of the glass in the flames. Although the skill of the artists was good, the soda flare gets in the way.