This Week's ArtFire Collection.

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November Challenge: Tis the Season

With the holidays fast approaching, we’ve challenged the Divas this month to create some festive holiday designs. Take a look at these beauties! Please cast your vote in the poll you will find to your right. The poll closes at midnight on Sunday, November 20th. Make sure to leave your comment below after you vote-the winning comment (randomly chosen) will win a 20% off coupon to Susanne's ArtFire Shop!
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European Big Hole Bead of the Day, Friday 11/11

Lampwork Bead of the Day by Amy Sims Designs, Friday 11/11/11

This beautiful bead of the day by Amy Sims has that warm holiday appeal!

This is a big hole bead perfect for your European style chain such as Pandora, Biagi, Chamilia and Troll. Measurements: 16.2mm x 7mm

Hole size: approximately 4.5-5mm

You can find this red flowered bead and other beautiful beads in Amy's Etsy Shop.

Lampwork Bead of the Day: November 9

I've had some lousy couple of weeks with everything breaking around me. Computer, modem, phone... And I guess you all know how much work it is to start it all over again! Having to reinstall everything, having lost all the bookmarks etc. Thank heavens, Iäve got a back up hard drive, but it still requires a lot of work.

So now I just need something calm to rest my eyes and soul with. Like these airy spacers from SilverRiver GlassWorks:

Turquoise Blue Raspberry Pink Handmade Lampwork Glass Spacer Beads

Love the etched surface and the light shades of colour.

Glass Bead of the day - 11/7

Today's glass bead features an amazing pop of colors... perfect for a drab fall day! This made to order pair is created by Kitty Lampwork and can be found in her Etsy shop.

Glass Bead of the Day: Monday, November 7th

Happy Monday!  Today's bead is a lovely dichroic blue focal from Holly of Holly's Folly Glass:

Blue Dichroic Focal Glass Bead - Holly's Folly Glass

This bead reminds me of the rain we had this weekend, cool and variable with spotty drizzle and fantastically colorful clouds and sky...  Plus it has a coating of dichroic glass near the surface, and lovely decoration underneath.  She's selling it for a steal too, so you'd best check it out on Etsy while you still can ;).  Her entire shop can be seen here: Holly's Folly Glass.

The Fire Divas will be hosting another glass challenge coming up REALLY SOON, so check back near the end of this week (if you don't read this blog daily, though I'm sure you do ;) ) for voting and the contenders in the challenge: Tis the Season! 

Other than that, please see us in the ArtFire and Etsy threads to show your love of glass art and chat glass and beads for a little bit.  Enjoy your week!

ArtFire Collection of the Week: Sometimes Simple is Best

Sometimes Simple is Best

Curated By: Lutrick

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Handmade Soap

Each week, the Fire Divas bring you a fresh ArtFire Collection and Etsy Treasury. These are items compiled by our members with a theme in type of bead, colors, holiday, etc. We would like to share them with you on the blog over the weekend.

This week's ArtFire collection was made by me, Lara Lutrick. I wanted to show beads of one color and how a simple single colored bead could be beautiful. Now, finding single colored beads from each of the shops was difficult. My shop didn't have any so I had to choose a set with fine silver dots. Patrice didn't have a single colored item, so I choose the bat as it was the closest. :-)

Glass Bead of the Day - 11/3

Because it IS time to start thinking of holiday jewelry projects... I just had to choose this lovely set of green and red with silvered ivory (Oh! MY favorite!) for today's bead of the day:

 

You'll find these holiday glass beads in Spawn of Flame's Etsy shop. 

The Divas are all getting ready for the holidays and you'll see lots of holiday and Christmas glass beads in the coming weeks with our latest bead challenge. 

Have a lovely fall weekend!

Bead of the Day Thursday 11-3-11

Today's bead of the day is from Christina of FenG beads. Is this blue bird not just the cutest? Check out all of her work at her Etsy Shop.

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