Lucas was a bit perplexed with the surrounding bright pumpkins and the brown crunchy leaves. We chose to buy our pumpkins from Powers Farm Market. They also have teepees filled to the top with carved pumpkins, hay rides, farm animals, hot cider, baked goods, and apples. Last year at this time Lucas was just a little growing pumpkin himself. Click here for some silly belly pics at Gro-More Farms.
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I wanted to design the perfect pumpkin bead for European bracelets. Pleased with my first prototype, I didn’t change a thing with the design. I enjoy making this bead. If I had a large order for these, I would be glad to fill it. I can make these lined with brass, copper, or sterling silver at your request.
Glass:
• Vetrofond Orange, & Green Emerald
Approximate dimensions:
• 14mm × 10mm
• 4.5mm – 5.5mm hole
Looking forward to Halloween in August is only natural when you are preparing holiday inventory. Sculpting pumpkins, candy corn, ghosts, black cats, and beads of the like, has been a blast.
I bought this swirly and curly pumpkin from artists Chelsea Foehr and Jeremy Griffith at the Park Ave festival. Looking through the shapes, textures, and colors of their glass items was mesmerizing. This pumpkin suited my mood best, it will be a great inspiration for my torching sessions this week. Wouldn’t you know, Deslish Handmade Glass, opens their studio to the public during Rochester’s First Friday event in the Hungerford Building.
Tomorrow fat cat black cat beads are on the agenda, I’m dressing them with half moons on their backsides. Corn on the cob beads are also on the list of things to do for the Avon Corn Festival, coming up this Saturday. I hope to see you there if you are from the area.
Dimensions:
• 2 large moon beads (in center) 11mm × 15mm
• 4 medium moon beads 10mm × 14mm
• 5 pumpkin beads 9mm × 13mm
• 2.5mm holes
Pumpkin and Candy Corn beads displayed on a slender fall leaf.
I sandblasted a few of the candy corn beads to see what effect a matte texture would have on them. This was the first time I sandblasted glass beads. They turned out to be a suitable subject to learn both about form and texture.
I carried them around with me all day at work, rotating them around in my hands enjoying the feeling of the little corn-like shapes. While showing them off to coworkers I gathered some interesting opinions. I found that the dull texture of the sandblasted candy corns took them so far away from where they stood when they were glossy. Someone expressed, “they don’t even look like candy corn any more they remind me of a sunset.”
