updated 4/30/08

Some of My Favorite Bead Links


I try to keep up with these - if you find one broken, please let me know at ntaglass@newterra.com . And if you'd like to be added to my links list, just drop me an email at that same address. It's all just me, folks, so I definitely DO get behind sometimes!

Handmade Beads


a Flame Dancer.com - hand made beads and classes -my very good friend Pat Lubin makes wonderful big beads and really great spacers that coordinate beautifully with the glass I use.
Smartass Glass - the wild and wacky lampwork of Sharon Peters - in her own words "Specializing in the bright and wacky since birth"
• Paula Radke - handmade dichroic beads and other handmade beads - wonderful stuff !
• DragonBeads for the fun beads of Cheryl Keggan - especially the always popular dragonette beads.
• Symphony Glassworks - for the Great Lampwork Beads of Sue Stewart all the way from Alaska!
• WCP Fine Crafts - - the distinctive style of Worth Cooley-Prost


Artist Galleries


Patricia Lubin, finished jewelry -For bodacious finished jewelery try here. Not for the timid, Pat's jewelry is for those of us who like to make statements!
• JAM Designs - for the spectacular colors and stringing talents of Jane Metcalf from Hawaii
• Mazel Tov! Jewelry Treasures - Unique pieces made with their own lampworked beads, semi-precious stones, and vintage materials.
• Tobi Jewelry - Lovely pieces from the studio of Tobi Mattes
• Quiet Moment Creations- A new WebSite by Nikki Sandoval - Unique handcrafted jewelry, featuring dichroic, lampwork, and gemstone focals. Sometimes pieces from ntaglass show up here, too!
•Terry Ow-Wing Designs, - for things in glass beyond the bead.
• Webb Weaving & Designs- the lovely weavings of Jane Webb - hand spun, hand woven, often with hand painted silk linings and sometimes with buttons from ntaglass, too!


Beadwork & Commercial Bead Sites


• Out on a Whim-a full line of beads and beading supplies. Japanese seed beads, Austrian Crystal, Czech Glass, Castings & Charms, Findings, Needles, Thread & Misc. Supplies, just to name a few.
• Minoa Beadworks- for patterns, thoughts and bots - Everything you need for beadwork- and beyond !
•Suzanne Cooper - has a really fun site with lots of beadwork galleries , patterns, chat and other fun stuff for the late night browser.
Jewelry Magazine A site with lots and lots of links for all sorts of jewelry, finished as well as beads and findings. Well laid out as long as you guess at the right category for the links you want, there are so many sites availble through here that it can take a while to browse, so go when you have time.


Beadmaking & Hot Glass Work Tools and Hot Help

• Arrow Springs- Flameworking Home Page for Lampworked Beads, Marbles, Buttons and Sculpture-Tools and Supplies, including fusing kilns and annealing kilns for lampwork.
• Links at Arrow Springs A really GOOD links page
• WarmGlass - an absolutely wonderful site for tips and tricks in fusing and slumping glass!
• Wale Apparatus Co., Inc. - great site for glass equipment of all kinds from scientific glass blowing to lathes.
• Paragon Kilns - Good kilns, nice people - I started out with one of these kilns and they're great!
• L&L Kilns - Mostly ceramic kilns, they have a few great glass ones including the one I use on a daily basis and couldn't live without! Great tech support, too.
• Skutt Kilns - Classic kilns, I don't have one but know several people who do!


Other Stuff You Might Like

This movie - We Send You Our Blessings" from the website One Million Blessings in One Hundred Days, is a wonderful thing when tired, sick and behind in what you think you have to do. I'd like to share it with all of you. if the link above won't work for you, here is the WebSite address - http://www.mayyoubeblessedmovie.com

• Evil Empire Paintball You might want to check out my son's Paintball team page - his field shots are fun and you can see a picture of my goats there, too.

• Arabia Steamboat Museum-Treasures from the Depths - These glass beads are just a portion of the 200 tons of frontier-bound cargo recovered from the steamship Arabia, which sank in 1856. The ship and its treasure--the largest collection of pre-Civil War artifacts--were excavated from beneath a Kansas cornfield in 1988 (Photo: Arabia Steamboat Museum- courtesy of Gene Olson)

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