Fresholi | Melting Pot Café

Hellooo! I'm Jaq, a lampwork beadmaker by day, dipping my toe into balms and creams. I am hoping to make something specifically for beadmakers burns or tattoo's as we call them :D ( just really small burns you sometimes get when a fragment of hot glass comes your way) and also something for mild rosacea. I've learned so much from this site, and I must just add I love ordering from Helen, such fab service, and i don't just mean the products ;)

Hello Jaq.

Do you have a website for your beads - I love lampwork beads!
(and we do like pics on this forum!!)

You'll find lots of info here and on the main site so you should be able to sort out your tattoos.

Welcome!!! You'll love it on here, the more you post, the more boards open to you.. and we LOVE pics too!

Hello and welcome.   Did anyone mention that we like pics :mwaha:

Thanks for the welcome! I'd noticed there are so many more boards already! I could spend all day reading I think ;D. I do have a website for my beads, not sure if I can post the link, ooh and I love taking pics too, I'll make sure I'll  posting some soon ;)

Hi Jaq, great to have you here. Go wan, post a link for your beads  :P We want to see them, nosey bunch that we are. Anyway, welcome & I hope you will find the boards useful to make your balms.

You can put your website in your sig.

And bead pics in the Eshibition Room (Other Craft Show Orfs)

Welcome  :buttrf:

You could spend all day and all  night reading here, and there's something new to learn everyday. You;ll love it here.

Ooh yes, it would be great to have a nose around your site - post the link (add it to your profile too  ;) ) 

It is lovely to have you here Jaq and aw... that is so very kind of you - thank you  :buttrf:

I hope you find the boards useful and everyone is really sharing and I am sure you will really gain lots just from bashing ideas around. 

Look forward to seeing some of you beadwork  :)

Hi Jac

I have just taken a quick look at your website.  The beads are gorgeous!!  If you start making them to fit a Pandora bracelet, I will certainly be buying. (Love the Monserrat)

welcome jaq x

Thankyou! I do make them for Pandora, but they are order only, ie just the same as the ones on the website ( if you see one you like or want something similar) but if you want one with the bigger hole for the pandora I can do them is what I'm trying to say lol! I'v been making them from scratch for 3 years now but I had to decide early on which bracelet system to make them compatible with so went down the troll route as they seemed to be more widely available at the time, but now there's loads of different ones!
I've stuck the web address in my profile now :)

Those are really tempting beads!

I envisage purchase of earrings before too long (you maybe won't have time to make yourself some balms!!)

Ooh, lovely beads. Welcome, you'll soon feel at home.  :buttrf:

Oh my oh my..... those are amazing!  you make them from scratch?  Wow!!  That is soooo clever.  Amazing Jac and so beautiful  :buttrf:

Oh dear!  You probably should not have told me that! 

I will have a look when I have been paid next week, and I may well buy some for my jewellery making.  Bank Manager will not be happy!

Hi Jaq they are lovely, I love the earings. :buttrf:

Hello and welcome to the forum! Great beads by the way - very skillful

Hiya! Love your work... but what is lampwork? I have a picture of someone sitting with a bunsen burner lol

Hi Jaq, welcome to the forum! Amazing beads, you are very skillful  :buttrf:

Welcome to the forum - and I Love beads and lampwork, just off to look at your site1

Gorgeous work! Oh, and welcome!  :hi:

Beautiful, I particularly love the earings, what does lampwork mean?

Hi Jaq and welcome. :)



ElaineJ, have you been on the sauce again??? :mwaha:

Eire

Jaq, your beads are beautiful, thanks for sharing them  :buttrf:

Not yet - but my lefthand ring finger isn't always co-ordinated a the best of times!

Thankyou everyone, Lampwork is a very old craft originating in Venice and originally glassworkers would have melted glass over oil lamps hence the name, but now we have torches fuelled by oxygen and propane similar to a welders torch, which are very very hot! So the mention of a bunsen burner was not that far off :D I use rods of glass like long glass pencils that I melt in the flame and shape into beads, which then sit in a kiln for a few hours to de-stress, then depending on what you want to do with them I make them into jewellery, sell them loose to jewellery makers or add the silver cores for wearing on the charm bracelets that are very fashionable at the moment. Sometimes when the rods are cold and the flame hot the glass shocks and sends little splinters flying burning whatever's nearest ;D hence my want of a good aloe vera gel stick type thingy to dab on while I'm working  ;) Most common place for lady beaders burns is the cleavage believe it or not ;D

Oh my God Jaq those beads are beautiful Im not surprised you have sold out of the first ones. Ive just started making upsome pandora type bracelets and oh my godness those are in a class of their own.

There is loads on this site and you will find we are a very friendly bunch so welcome.

Hello, welcome to the board :)

 :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi:

Hello & welcome!  I've just been browsing the gorgeous beads on your site- they're stunning! 

Note to self:  I will NOT start getting interested in jewellery making!!!