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Lampwork Beads and Jewelry
by
Denise Billups Walker




What is Lampwork?

Lampwork is an old term that dates back to the use of oil lamps and foot-powered bellows to make objects out of glass.

Today we use the term to describe handmade or handworked glass pieces created with a torch. Most lampworkers today use oxygen-propane torches to create their works of art.

Each of my beads is fire-born and kiln annealed for strenght.

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Here is one of my Island Girls - if you've seem my work in the past 6 months at a show you will have seen them.

I've added a page dedicated to them.

Please take a look...

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Bead & Button Show

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Just a few of our members at the show last year... 

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Just a quick note to say "thank you" to everyone who visited the Glass Act booth and bought beads from the guild - not just me.  It was good to see old friends and meet new ones.  Bead people are great!
 
I am working to update the site and make it more user-friendly so you can order what you see.
 


 

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Beadfest Miami

Miami was great!  We made new friends and saw old friends we'd made at Bead & Button. And coming from Michigan we appreciated the wonderful weather.

We had a great time and plan on returning next year! 

 

Beadfest Miami - 2008

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We had a great time in Miami!  We made new friends and saw some old friends we met through Bead & Button.  The weather was great and we had some wonderful Cuban food!
 
We will be back next year!
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Joy, laughing while adding finishing touches to the Fire Foxes booth.

Beadfest Philly - 2007

We want to say "thank-you" to all of the wonderful people that we met while we at Bead Fest, from the Lapidary Journal and show staff, to our neighbors on both sides and of course our wonderful customers and people who just stopped by and said "hi"and took a look.

We plan to be back next year!

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I will have some of my work on exhibit at the Lawrence Street Gallery's 2008 Invitational show.  The gallery is in Ferndale, Michigan.  Stop by and check out my work! And the rest of the artists too! 
 
 
 

Lawrence Street Gallery

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This is one of my electro-formed pieces and it was in the March/April 2008 issue of Bead Style magazine.

"Grecian Urn" -

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