FireDivas: Diva of the Month

About the Fire Divas

We are a group of glass bead artisans promoting the use of handmade lampwork beads. We believe that by promoting one another's work, we all benefit. Feel free to look around and check the links on the right to view our shops and photos. There is some tremendous talent in this group and we hope you visit often to check out our latest work!

Visit the Fire Divas Glass Market on Facebook to bid on and purchase our beads and jewelry direct from the Divas.

Fire Divas Glass Market

To ask a question for our Ask the Divas posts, email us at firedivas{at}gmail{dot}com.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Diva of the Month - Susanne Folin

Can you believe it's April already! That means it's time to meet a new Diva! This month's featured Diva is Susanne Folin of Bab's Beads and Design. Come visit here on the first four Thursday's in April to get to know her better!

Susanne is our only European Diva! Her studio is located in a corner of her basement in Uppsala, Sweden. Uppsala is the fourth largets town in Uppsala and is the home of Swedens oldest university – Uppsala University – that was founded in 1477. The university is the reason Susanne moved there as she was studying economics and other social sciences. She was born in Swedish town called Västerås which is around 1025 years old!

Tomte Santa Focal

Susanne started lampworking in May of 2007. She took a class and was so grumpy that she couldn't do it at home! After about six weeks, her hubby told her to buy a starter's kit and she did.

Goddess with a Rose on her Hip

Susanne had a hard time describing which bead is her favorite bead to make over and over: "I love making florals of all kinds, fish and turtles. And goddesses. And Santas! (Though mostly for Christmas.) And dotted beads! I also make my Silvered Black beads a lot. I like that such a simple scheme still can be so versatile! And they are very popular at jewelery parties.
I think you can say I just love making beads! LOL!"

Silvered Black Lampwork Crunch

She claims she's too into trying new things to work on developing a style of her own. Susanne attributes this to being impatient and loving variety but adds, "But in some beads I think you can see me. It’s mainly in the fish, goddess and turtle beads – styles I love making and have developed my own form for. I think you can tell a Babs fish from another artists fish, but you will have to be the judge of that. "