The Makings Of Beads by Clare Scott.....

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Awards II

Ok, I had a few people in mind for this one, as I wanted to check if it was ok to give awards to people without blogs....... so this award goes to Jo Rohrer at Glasstales, , an established UK Lampwork artist. She is such a generous, confidence boosting, informative lady who helped me so much in the early days, giving me a huge amount of support and even visited me at my first bead fair. All this shows in her beautiful glass beads. So big hugs and huge amounts of thanks. Why dont you go and see for yourself..... www.glasstales.co.uk

Monday, 23 June 2008

Award

I've just had the honour of being awarded this lovely award from my lovely beady friend Catherine of La Perle Jewellery - http://laperlejewellery.blogspot.com/
It's the "Arte Y Pico" Award which is The Creativity and Art Award.
Thanks Miss La Perle it is truly an honor to accept it!! Unfortunately I could not be there in person......! haha!
I now have the honour of passing it on to 5 other fantastically talented people.

Ok,

So.....my awards go to - not in any particular order, (I couldn`t include a few people as they didnt have blogs...booo!)
http://glassbybillie.blogspot.com/ - Billie's gorgeous lampwork beads and a lovely lady too.
http://innocentcharmschats.blogspot.com/ - Check out Kara`s beautiful jewellery & generous Charity donations.
http://revelationsnorth.blogspot.com/ - Michelle`s amazing wire creations. I will soon be the lucky owner of one.
http://laperlejewellery.blogspot.com/ - Well, MLP - what can I say!! I`d have given you an award anyway! ha! x

I will award the last award tomorrow........

Sunday, 15 June 2008

Can I have a drum roll please?!!

www.craftyclare.com

is now

www.beadsbyclarescott.co.uk

Sounds a little more professional huh!

Sooooo........if you have any links to my jewellery site, would you mind changing it.

Thankyou :)

Ethical Jewellery Collection

Karen Hilltribe silver is featured in my ethical designs. This fair trade silver has a 99.9% pure silver content. I love the beads, the texture, so organic.

I think they work beautifully with my handcrafted art glass beads -http://www.beadsbyclarescott.co.uk/page12.htm

Wednesday, 7 May 2008

Reactive glass lessons....

Yesterday I gave a 'reactive glass' lesson. (Hope you dont mind me using your pic Kathy!)

I think they are fantastic - these beads were produced on a 'hothead' torch - not my minor burner!! Wow!

'Hatmehit' Lampwork glass bead set

I made these beautiful beads today - I think they are so organically gorgeous! I dont want to part with them. So I wont. They are mine :)

(Hatmehit - Ancient Egyptian Fish Goddess)

Thursday, 1 May 2008

Email Issues....

Sorry if you have been trying to contact me by email within the last few days and I havent replied - I just havent received them. I am working with my website people to try and remedy the situation. I will be using claredscott@hotmail.com from now on, so this doesnt happen again.

I have a few new bead sets available - please click here for details available beads

Me & my beads.....

I Am Self-Taught Lampwork Artist And Jewellery Designer (which basically means I have been a bit of a hermit since I discovered you could actually make glass beads!!)

In 2007 I left my Veterinary Nursing job and had a big think about what I wanted to do with my life....

I have always been creative and realised I needed an outlet for this pent up creativity.

I spent night after night on the internet, scouring the prospectuses of local colleges as I wanted to study jewellery design.... or so I thought.

Luckily I came across a local jewellery maker - Anna Richards @ Beads on Toast. I asked if she knew of any jewellery courses in the area. She replied saying she didn`t know of any but she ran lampworking courses. LAMPWORKING COURSES?! Now THAT sounded interesting!! Playing with glass over a big hot torch! FUN! I never knew you could actually make glass beads!! I pestered the life out of poor Anna for information about this amazing subject (thankyou SOO much!) and decided to take my own path. Ever since that day I have been a complete hermit - with my head in glassy books, reading up on techiques on forums, trawling the internet for video tutorials etc etc...

Next step was annealing my beads whilst I saved up for a kiln.... huge thanks to Helen Prole @ Beady Bugs for your kiln space.

I was given a 'hothead' torch for my 28th Birthday in April 2007. I instantly knew making beads was for me and quickly upgraded my setup to a Nortel Minor burner running on bulk propane and Oxygen.

I still have so much to learn....

My Studio Can Be Found In The Beautiful County Of North Yorkshire, In The Heart Of England.

My favourite glass made by a company called Double Helix in the US. It is called 'Psyche' - a beautiful deep purple rod loaded with silver that produces an amazing array of peacock colours when worked in the flame.I also love their Aura (light & dark) Triton, Gaia, Elektra.... The Glass I Use Is COE (Co-Efficient Of Expansion) 104. Double Helix, TAG, Effetre (Moretti), Vetrofond, Creation Is Messy (CIM). These Glasses Are Italian, German Or American.

Recently I have been playing with Borosilicate (Pyrex) glass, it gives wispy organic reactions - it is COE 33.

I am a member of the Self Representing Artistry. (google 'self representing artist' for more info) My beads are 'annealed' in a digitally controlled Paragon SC2 Kiln, thoroughly cleaned of bead release and temporarily strung for you to use in your designs.

I have two websites. One for jewellery designers to purchase my lampwork beads and the other for my jewellery customers to purchase unique pieces of wearable art.

I love experimenting with glass, finding out how to get the very best results from reactive glass but best of all I love hearing from my happy customers and seeing their creations.

Thankyou for stopping by, if you would like to get in touch please do, I`d love to hear from you - claredscott@hotmail.com.

Clare x