My husband and I opened a retail bead store (String Bead) in 1993 and we began
making lampworked glass beads in 1996. We traveled around the country selling
glass beads at various bead shows. In 2000 my daughter, Hannah was born and we put bead making aside to concentrate on parenting and running our
bead shop. In 2002 I began making glass beads again. In July 2006 we sold our bead
store and our son, Jason was born. Now, I spend a lot of time with my children, make glass beads, fuse and design jewelry.
We live in the Sierra
Nevada foothills and my beads are inspired by nature. I have an obsession with
flowers and I love trying to figure out how to get the many varieties to look
realistic under glass.
We have been the subject of many bead related articles:
Jewelry Craft Magazine:
"Stringing Along" April 1999,
Lapidary Journal Magazine:
"Encased Flower Beads" April 1999,
"Glass in Bloom" January 2000
Bead and Button Magazine:
August
1999 "In my Garden Necklace" written by Misty Leppard, Bead featured by
me.
"More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Glass Bead Making" by James
Kervin on page V
The Best of Bead and Button Series, Seed Beads "In my
Garden Necklace" by Misty Leppard (My flower garden bead is the focal).
I am also a member of The International Society of Glass
Bead makers.
Glass Fairy's other
links:
Our Etsy Shop
Our Blog
Check out these other links:
Glassline links
Top 100 Lampwork glass bead links
String Bead
