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Sunday, October 21, 2007

St. Lawrence County Artists' Studio Tour

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The brochures are out and the tour is just two weeks away. I am at a new location this year, my own studio in a ninteenth century barn. Here...
Sunday, September 09, 2007

New Raku Beads and Pendants

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These last days of summer have been gorgeous and I have been having a wonderful time doing some raku bead firings. Here is a look at some of...

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October Issue of Simply Beads Magazine

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The newest edition of Simply Beads Magazine has a full page advertisement from Fired Clay Artists of which I am a member. Next to the ad is ...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Potsdam Summer Festival

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It was a miracle that it didn't rain, since that is all it has done here in the last 2 weeks, it seems. But traditionally, this wonderfu...
Saturday, July 07, 2007

Colorful Beads Pendants and Buttons By BOC Artists

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I recently checked out the Beads of Clay photos on Flickr! and was excited to see so much color. It always amazes me that ceramic bead artis...
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Sunday, June 17, 2007

Future Ceramic Bead and Pendant Makers

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Not too long ago, I was invited to teach elementary aged students how to make ceramic beads and pendants. My host was Nan Lazovik, who is th...
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Monday, June 11, 2007

Bead Journal Project

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I was fortunate to get in before the dealine on this exciting project undertaken by bead artist Robin Atkins. I have commited to making a b...
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Sunday, May 13, 2007

Ceramic Bead Making Raku Part III A Closer Look at the Beads

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This is Part III of my Raku Bead Making Series in which I take a closer look at the beads I created in the Firing on Part II of the video. ...
Thursday, May 10, 2007

Ceramic Bead Making Raku Part I

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This is Part I of my three part video on how to make ceramic raku beads. www.maryhardingjewelry.com

Ceramic Beadmaking Raku Part II The Firing

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new video on ceramic bead making i recently completed
Saturday, May 05, 2007

More Raku Excitement

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Recently I purchased a 20 jar sample pack from Georgie's of premixed raku glazes. These are ideal for a beadmaker as it could take a ver...
Saturday, April 14, 2007

Art Bead Scene

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I have recently discovered the wonderful blog called Art Bead Scene. This is put on by a number of talented art bead makers, including some ...
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Raku Beads

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I am very excited that I finally got a chance to Raku fire some beads that have been waiting since late fall for the weather to be warm enou...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Check out my Slide Show!

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Friday, March 16, 2007

Ceramic Shards

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I have been inspired by an opportunity to join the Beadmakers Blog Ring to expand the focus of my blog. So I changed my name from pitfired...
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Sunday, January 14, 2007

More Jewelry

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This necklace is composed of smoke and sawdust fired beads from a number of different firings. It is simple but the shades of gray and bla...
Wednesday, March 01, 2006

The Jewelry

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I don't think that I really fell in love with pit firing until I strung my first bracelet with pit fired beads from that original fi...
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Friday, February 24, 2006

How They Turned Out

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The picture on the right is how the beads that were wrapped with thin copper wire turned out. They have faint shadows of lines and some ni...
Tuesday, January 31, 2006

The Ice

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Overnight the rain fell and turned to ice that glazed the trees, the roads, and our long driveway making it hard to walk up to the sawdus...