tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45939314710918423532024-02-19T00:55:05.433-08:00enVisionenVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-81709703725120756912016-04-27T11:25:00.005-07:002016-04-27T11:26:42.403-07:00New Blog!I have started a new blog that's not just glass specific at:
https://hayleytsangsather.wordpress.com
... and published my first post on my Latest Glass Beads. :DenVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-54556919586383983552015-07-29T15:59:00.003-07:002015-07-29T16:02:00.821-07:00Double Helix Test Batches Summer 2015Sample beads and details are on our website!
enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-26532227724239856902014-05-30T11:35:00.000-07:002014-05-30T11:35:13.983-07:00NEW Postcard!
A new postcard featuring the newest series, Scherherazade is here! Just in time for the Bead&Button Show and the ISGB Gathering in Houston.
For those of you who will be heading to Milwaukee next week, my beads will be available for sale at the Meet the Teachers venue Wednesday night, AND for the first time, at the show – Visit the SMGBE/Glass Act booth #1018!
This postcard enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-33797463382661877372014-05-01T11:05:00.001-07:002014-05-01T11:10:02.411-07:00Soda Lime Times
I am honored to be the Feature Artist of this month's Soda Lime Times Reactive Glass issue, as well as the opportunity to share in the Tips from the Masters column.
enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-59210382598753712062013-11-15T14:08:00.003-08:002013-11-15T14:08:52.132-08:00Completed Challenge Two Strand! I finished my strand and made some vocals to go with the 40 beads!
Here are the last 10 beads - I misplaced bead 18 (don't ask!) so I actually made 41 beads.
Completed strand! :D
Beads 32 to 36
Beads 37 to 41
Completed strand with vocals
Focals
Started to make some for sale (soon!)
enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-76164451000107588972013-10-28T17:52:00.000-07:002013-10-28T17:52:59.282-07:00Another Challenge 2 Update!
After a heavenly week at Hanalei Bay in Kauai, I finally got a chance to melt some glass. Of-course I immediately wanted to work on my three-color project! Unfortunately I just found out I needed to make 1" lentil beads for an upcoming PMC class with Claudia Pagel-Trimbur / glasting, thus limiting the amount of challenge beads I could do each session (we are only to make 5-6 but I only managed enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-19255499398377815342013-10-09T11:37:00.002-07:002013-12-04T15:09:11.433-08:00Challenge 2 Update and MORE!My three-color Challenge 2 of the 40-bead project hit a screeching halt due to travel. I managed to sneak in a little time at the torch between trips for I had wanted to take what I learned from Heather Trimlett's amazing project and incorporated into my work for a while now. I am thrilled at what turned up in the kiln! I am sure the kiln fairy helped! ;-)
First are the latest Challenge 2 beads.enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-65905579457411602252013-09-25T13:06:00.005-07:002013-09-25T13:06:56.943-07:00Challenge 2 – Three Colors!For those of us who completed the Heather Trimlett's 40-Bead Challenge on the Lampwork Etc. forum, we continue this exercise by going into Challenge 2 using three instead of two colors.
If I thought picking two colors (and committing to creating 40 beads with them) was difficult, nothing prepared me for the three-color selection process!
After multiple test beads - with some being compete enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-85168780076660134712013-09-24T11:17:00.003-07:002013-12-04T15:09:58.979-08:00Heather Trimlett's 40-Bead Challenge Results #1I started a thread on the Lampwork Etc. forum a month ago so I would stick with this challenge to its completion. I am now onto Challenge #2 with three colors instead of two... and happy to report many of the 90+ participants also completed their first challenge!
If you are not familiar with Heather's challenge, click here.
Better yet, join us at LE! There is no deadline so jump in anytime to enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-59051235089504800362013-09-12T15:36:00.000-07:002013-09-12T15:36:11.935-07:00Final Result – Heather Trimlett's 40-Bead ChallengeIt has been an amazing exercise. I want to thank Heather Trimlett for her challenge and my LE friends for I wouldn't have finished this project without their support and inspiration!
If you are interested in joining us - many of us are continuing on to Project 2 with three colors instead of two - visit:
http://www.lampworketc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=250615
Beads 1-10
Beads enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-14774763226970753472013-09-09T11:23:00.000-07:002013-09-09T11:23:01.997-07:00Progress Report – Heather Trimlett's 40-Bead Challenge
Beads 15 to 22
Beads 23 to 30
Strand of 30 beads (10 more to go!)
enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-63466707752072399522013-09-04T10:11:00.001-07:002013-09-04T10:12:07.263-07:00Heather Trimlett's 40-Bead ChallengeI have been wanting to do Heather Trimlett's 40-Bead Challenge - actually started a couple of times and then life got in the way. Sitting next to Heather at lunch in Rochester during the ISGB annual conference, the Gathering, and chatting about this made me want to really give this another go ... and actually to completion! So I decided to invite others to join me to keep me in check ... and thatenVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-34697035744839168262013-08-27T13:18:00.001-07:002013-08-27T13:27:42.228-07:00
SE9 - Ninth Silver Color How To eBook
The long awaited SE9 PDF is finally available! Our sincere apology for being so delinquent in bringing you this version. Hayley's one-year stint as the Director of Communications and Marketing on the volunteer board of the International Society of Glass Beadmakers (ISGB) as well as the Editor in Chief of its printed magazine, Glass Bead enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-54939556052776191062013-08-08T15:05:00.001-07:002013-08-10T15:03:09.010-07:00New Photographic Set Up
At the 2013 ISGB conference, the Gathering, in Rochester, New York, presenter/instructor Doug Baldwin had his light boxes set up in the classroom area for students to use. Many took advantage of this opportunity to snap pictures of their work from class and post on social media such as Facebook. I saw first hand how compact Doug's system was and it didn't take long for me to purchase two light enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-35768636216748669592013-07-19T17:01:00.000-07:002013-07-19T17:02:13.043-07:00Double Helix Test Batches – Rochester Gathering 2013
Quick pictures of these awesome test batches Double Helix is bringing to the Rochester Gathering. Make sure you get there when Technical Vendors open at 10am on Thursday 15 July! :)
enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-12289036226954517972012-09-21T08:31:00.000-07:002012-09-21T08:33:04.029-07:00Now that my 2012 glass season is coming to an end with only one venue - Bay Area Bead Extravaganza - to go in November and just finish my last teaching gig at The Gathering Place studio in Naperville, Illinois, earlier this month. I finally have an opportunity to post some of the Ornate Series Beads. Thank you for making these so popular! :)
First let's start with the scale of these - from enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-90452898342823201952012-08-15T17:17:00.002-07:002012-08-15T17:18:39.548-07:00MORE Double Helix Test Batches from the Bellevue GatheringHad the opportunity to play with more test batches from Double Helix!
Opaque Speckled Lusters, encased in either Aether or Zephyr.
OP-507 (dark purple rods)
OP-509 (pale off-white rods)
OP-511 (dark indigo blue rods) – the end on the left is Okeanos, one of two of the Double Helix Pre-Releases!
Boreas - the second one of the two Pre-Releases!
enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-41835374842643153422012-07-20T09:16:00.000-07:002012-07-20T09:16:41.673-07:00Double Helix Test Batches at the 2012 Gathering
Here are test beads on some of the Double Helix test batches available next week at the ISGB Gathering at Bellevue, Washington! :)
CH441 - very transparent striking and reducing glass with beautiful golden and hints of peach hues
IL436 - gorgeous blues and greens
LL491 - soft shimmering yellows when encased
NO486 - similar to Notos but more transparent
TL478 - heavy enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-23749065062938500682012-04-03T08:00:00.002-07:002012-04-03T08:03:03.442-07:00Portable LightsI use these battery operated portable LED lights for out-of-town shows as well as when I teach. Many have asked about where to purchase them so here it is! Click hereenVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-50543606621133378182012-03-08T17:50:00.004-08:002013-08-27T13:21:26.531-07:00List of our eBooksWe have been meaning to put this list together for easy reference for a while now but never got around to it! All of our ebooks are available in PDF format and most are available as printed books on Lulu. For more information, please visit our website.
Bedazzled - a reference ebook on layering Clio, Kalypso, and more!Layering Double Helix striking and reducing silver glass is all the rage enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-63686918738989753202011-11-09T12:51:00.000-08:002011-12-01T11:42:23.752-08:00SE8 - Eighth Silver Color How To eBookThis booklet is a compilation of exchange beads submitted for SE8 – Eighth Silver Color How To and Exchange - on lampworketc forum. With 35 pages, there are over 80 beads with description. Each bead is accompanied by the recipes of glasses used and some have detailed step by step description of how the bead was made (the level of detail is based on how much information the original beadmaker enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-38966411159076722072011-11-01T13:12:00.000-07:002011-12-01T11:42:36.301-08:00Bedazzled! a reference ebook on layering Clio, Kalypso, and more!Layering Double Helix striking and reducing silver glass is all the rage right now and I have been caught up in making these shocking pink, magenta and red beads that also shimmer gloriously with iridescence. It’s hard to resist! Trouble tho is that it’s near impossible to tell them apart unless one takes meticulous notes and photograph them as soon as they come out of the kiln. Trust me, I know!enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-4520580185103622692011-08-16T12:28:00.001-07:002011-08-16T12:36:02.003-07:00Double Helix Clio Dark
Once in a while, Double Helix offers an "odd" batch of its regular production silver glass that is . . . I hate to say "better" because it really isn't . . . different. It's also probably because it's "odd" and may not be around for long. Examples are Psyche Light, Aurae Light Gold, and the latest . . . Clio Dark!
Can you say LOVE?
enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-6152667603520613562011-08-15T13:43:00.000-07:002011-08-15T17:37:05.642-07:00Double Helix Tinted Opaques
In addition to the wonderful tinted luster test batches Double Helix had for the ISGB Gathering last month, there were its newest tinted opaques! I had a chance to play with them a bit and here are two beads made with OC472, TH473, OP470 on Opal Yellow and Pink.
The top bead also has some Reichenbach 96 pink (the small dots) and the row of dots on the right of the bead is Effetre 253 (it enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4593931471091842353.post-67291900132049110902011-08-03T17:33:00.000-07:002011-08-15T17:34:28.161-07:00Highlight(s) of the 2011 ISGB Gathering in Louisville, Kentucky
Top on the list of the highlights, hands down, is winning John Kobuki's marble at the Live Auction. After watching the video of its creation during his fantastic presentation - and learning that he had none for sale - I was determined to have it. My meager photography does not do its beauty justice!
More highlights to come! :)enVisionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13040586307659858401noreply@blogger.com3