Etsy shop, fused glass and bead crochet.

This has been a busy few weeks. You can now get some things from my Etsy shop. I will ship to other locations than what's indicated so far, but I have to figure out yet how to make "everything EU" at least similar, as what I have listed so far is or contains botanical beads and shipping to the EU is easy and shipping to a lot of other places (other than Canada) is next to impossible.

In May I took a fusing class at Hilo Art and Glass Supplies, who are sadly not longer in business. I got myself some glass fusing equipment, not a whole lot, but I think I will do some more glass fusing in the future.


As a member of the Lampwork Etc. community I got a wire crochet tutorial from Hannah Rosner of GoodRiverGallery.
So I did some wire crochet.

Both of these are done with craft wire, so I'm not listing them for sale, but I would part with them. They both contain some of my first lampwork beads, annealed in Eva Anderson-Terada's kiln right after they were made, the first one also containing some clear about 8/0 seed beads, probably of Chinese origin and clear glass druks that I got out of a Ben Franklin "bead soup". The second contains a light yellow to brown matte seed bead mix and garnet beads of various shapes and sizes that were given to me.

HiloBeads sale at Hilo Art & Glass Supply extended to include Sunday (June 28)

Due to the amount of traffic I had today I decided to extend the bead (and plant) sale in front of Hilo Art and Glass Supply and be there tomorrow too. The hours will be a bit shorter as the store closes at 3 p.m.

New jewelry set:

Velvet / weleweka / Hawaiian Pussy Willow / mgambo seeds, amethyst and lilac AB Swarovski crystals.

I haven't added this one to the website yet. It'll be about $70.-

HiloBeads sale at Hilo Art & Glass Supply on June 27

Last week's HiloBeads sale at Hilo Art and Glass Supply was decided too late to make much sense to put in the blog, but, it's Monday (early Tuesday, actually) today, and already decided that I will be having a stand outside Hilo Art and Glass Supply (318 Kinoole St., downtown Hilo, between Sack&Save and L&L, mauka side) this coming Saturday, unfortunately for the last time on a Saturday but I may extend to Sunday as well, as the store is closing at the end of this month. I'll be there from about 10 a.m. to about 4 p.m. with beads, jewelry and some plants. If the weather gets any better I may have a hapu'u cutting or two (yes, there can be too much hapu'u in one's front yard).

In the meantime beads are still available in the store and I will restock. I got new Unakite chip strands today as well as some shell bead strands that I haven't had there up to now, but I'll try to get them there tomorrow.

I also have new 4, 6 and 8 mm amethyst round bead strands that I will have with me on Saturday. Of course I will also have the regular supply of beads including the mgambo/Hawaiian pussy willow/weleweka/velvet seeds, some Job's Tears and Royal Poinciana double drilled seeds, Swarovski crystals, sterling silver wire, $1.- baggies of assorted base metal findings, gemstones, liquid silver and a supply of Ornela seed beads in 11/0 and 8/0 sizes by the hank.

And, watch this space, I have some pictures of new things still in the camera. They're likely to be posted here before they get on the website.

Beads at Hilo Art and Glass Supply

I meant to post this a week ago, but, sometimes life gets in the way. Some of my beads, as well as the necklace pictured, are now available at Hilo Art and Glass Supply, 318 Kinoole Street, Hilo (Downtown). Most of the beads available there never made it to my website. There are several varieties of chip strands, temporarily strung on monofilament, but long enough to wear as they are, some mixed gemstone strands, as well as some fresh water pearls.

Hilo Art and Glass Supply is open 7 days a week, 9 to 6 on weekdays, 9 to 5 on Saturdays and 10 to 4 on Sundays.

"Artsy Garage Sale" at Hilo Art and Glass this Saturday

This is rather late to get into the blog, but if I have any local readers, you can find me at the "Artsy Garage Sale" at Hilo Art and Glass this Saturday, May 16, between 10 and 4. I may have some Artsy Garage sale items (if I can find them in time), but otherwise mostly my inventory - and some plant seedlings I have in the back of my truck that I;m not going to take out extra for this. Should you happen to read this and are interested in seedlings of bell peppers, yellow lilikoi, spider lily, quite possibly some clove seedlings, coffee, or small to medium size planting pots, I'll sell those too (I'm the one with the beads :-) ).

Eva's announcement in her latest newsletter reads as follows:

           Art Supply Garage Sale & Swap Meet
              at Hilo Art & Glass Supply

            MAY 16th - SATURDAY - 10AM - 4PM
Great Deals Throughout the Store as Well as Garage Sale
                     Specials
   - used equipment, bead wholesale vendor, and even glass!

(I think I'm the bead wholesale vendor - I know I'm underselling everybody else in town here.)

New weleweka/mgambo/Hawaiian pussy willow seeds

Just a brief note for now: I have new un-drilled weleweka seeds from the Kona side of the Big Island. These are a bit bigger and lighter in color, like the drilled ones that I managed to get a while ago. In case you want to drill them yourself you now have a choice between the smaller darker ones from Oahu (as long as they last) and the bigger lighter color ones from the Big Island. I am not currently planning on drilling more of the Oahu seeds.

Aloha Sunday April 19 at the East Hawaii Cultural Center, and some new stuff

Just realizing that I haven't put this in the blog yet: the next Aloha Sunday is next Sunday, April 19. I'm going to be there with my jewelry, beads (beads not necessarily on display, but I'll have some out) and some plants. It's downtown Hilo on Kalakaua Street, across from Kalakaua Park, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with Hawaiian music:
10:30-11 a.m. Ben Kaili
11-12 noon; Sam Kama & the Kapakahi Brothers
12-12:30 p.m. Kirk Shimabukuro
(12:30-1 p.m. intermission);
1-2 p.m. Kaleo Evans & The Ukulele Kids
2-3 p.m. Darlene Ahuna
3-4 p.m. Ikaika Marzo.

And I have some new "stuff" (as usual, no pictures yet): beadable metal chokers (silver and gold colors) and bangle bracelets (silver plated only), some new colors of Swarovski cubes and some new weleweka/mgambo/Hawaiian pussy willow seeds from the Kona side.

The chokers and bracelets require larger hole beads, you can't fit e.g. Swarovski crystals on them other than as pendants, but not as big as e.g. Pandora. Lampwork beads made on 1/8" mandrels fit quite well on those, and I'll have them, as well as some annealed lampwork beads. I'll try to get some larger hole weleweka seeds done, but I can't promise that for this month's fair (in spite of it being Merrie Monarch week - I may update this later in the week).

I also have quite a bit of new glass but so far the weather hasn't been cooperating with torching in my still wide open outdoors studio. I hope to get a partial back wall soon so that I will be able to make beads when it's raining, and anneal at least some of the beads as I make them, as I have a kiln now as well.