Links
I spend a ridiculous amount of time cruising other sites... here is an ever-expanding list of the ones I visit most frequently.
Some good, reliable suppliers:
Frantz Art Glass & Supply
Arrow Springs
Generations Art Glass
Wale Apparatus
Amy Oulette, maker of the fabulous "Zoozii's" bead presses
Olympic Color Rods, with Reichenbach cane and more frit than you can shake a stick at:
Evil Twin printing, a great place to get your custom T-shirts and totes at fantastic prices:
Jo Hoffacker at Dogmaw Glass sells Satake, a soft, gorgeous Japanese glass, and her own well-crafted beads
Forums:
The International Society of Glass Beadmakers
Lampwork, Etc.
The Melting Pot
The Glass Haven
Magazines:
The Flow magazine
The Annealer magazine
Profitable Glass Quarterly
Glass Line magazine.
Educational Resources:
A faceting tutorial I wrote
GlassArtists.org - Art Glass Photo Gallery
Glass Talk Radio, an awesome internet radio station about glass!
Sooz's Bead Links - this is The Master List for all bead-related stuff!
Lampwork Glass Beads.
British Lampwork.
Glass Facts.
Artists:
My sister!
Breezy, my longtime manager/protege, and now independent beadmaker with an incredible sense of color and proportion
Juiceglass; beautiful beads and jewelry
Kandice, who is amazing
Lydia Muell, with an amazing eye for color and design:
Connie Cooper's exquisite organic designs reminiscent of antiquities:
Bethany Adams' colorful, whimsical, and elegant flowers:
Julia Benson-Slaughter's beads and beautiful handmade books:
Carolyn and Chuck Driver of Blue Heeler, who sell frits and do the most luscious work
Dawn Scannell of Art Insomnia, an incredible polyclay artist who made the switch to lampwork with almost alarming alacrity
Tink, Bead Artist Extraordinaire
Julie Ferguson, with an exquisite eye for color and an obvious love for experimentation
Glasswurx, a web gallery representing a number of excellent glass artists
Just Vonna, making wonderful organic forms
Joanna Mueller, with GORGEOUS boro work
Jo Hoffacker at Dogmaw Glass sells Satake, a soft, gorgeous Japanese glass, and her own well-crafted beads
Andrea Winkler, with the prettiest lamp pulls I have EVER seen
Some sites with pretty beaded jewelry:
Cluny Grey Jewelry
DvineDzines
Mirage Concept & Design
Gallery Vittoria
The Blue Between
Laughing Starfish Jewelry, a maker of nursing necklaces colorful and graphical enough to occupy baby while beautiful and graceful enough to adorn Mama:
Vicki Jean Jewelry and Creations
Viarosa, with some of the loveliest rosaries I have ever seen:
DN Designs; no lampwork but lots of pretty jewelry
Jamie North
SWCreations
Melinda Fay Designs
Pat O'Brien's stunning jewelry
Kind of random sites I like:
Amazing cement architectural tiles:
A site featuring artisan work:
A wonderful Cape Cod retreat: