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home of the original CGBeadroller. Graphite cavity marvers
for the lampwork industry. Don't settle for cheap knockoffs. Made with superior optical grade graphite. Machine finished with diamonds. I am also a self representing artist. All beads are hand made by me from soft (soda lime) glass, kiln annealed for strength and durability. |
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TOOLS AVAILABLE 5/20/13 CROSS-PROMO GIVEAWAY Lori Bergmann, Zoozii's and CGBeads are teaming up with a giveaway. Lori wrote a tutorial on the making of her awesome Zebra beads for Bead Style Magazine, April 2013 issue. In the article she explained using the Small Round beadroller to judge the size of glass needed to press a perfect lentil from a Zoozii's lentil presses. Each of us is having a
giveaway, so you have three chances to win. Here's how to enter:
1). For a chance to win a
Small Round CGBeadroller:
send me an email at donna@cgbeads.com with 'CROSS-PROMO GIVEAWAY' in the subject line. 2). For a chance to win the Bead Style Magazine containing the Zebra Bead Tutorial and the set of beads featured: goto Lori Bergmann's Blog for details. 3). For a chance to win your choice of either a Zoozii Straight Sided Lentil Trio Small or Large: goto to Zoozii's Blog for details. Giveaways will end Monday May 27th @ Midnigh-ish. I'll announce my winner here, Lori & Amy will announce their winners on their blogs.    5/8/13 I HATE DAYS LIKE TODAY!!! I had to put Bruce to sleep. He was injured so I rushed him to the closes vet. She said his back was broken, there was no apparent pain. He was my fluffy rag doll, and I miss him terribly. I'll close out his life with a little montage tribute.        4/15/13 We have this 'weed' in our lawn that flowers every year, then we mow the yard and I don't get to see it again till the next spring. When it comes to plants I'm as dumb as a box of rocks, so when I discovered last year that it was primrose I decided to try and transplant it this year. This is a picture of it in the lawn and one a week after I transplanted it and it flowered again. I am thrilled I didn't kill it! so I went and hunted down a couple more plants and transplanted them, too. I know it needs to go dormant, but I'm hoping to bring it in this winter to see if it will flower inside.
4/4/13 Kara & I have decided to do some shows this year so I launched into a project of making sample beads from every CGBeadroller cavity. I was a bit surprised, I estimate I used around 8-9 pounds of glass (not including the marble molds). Speaking of shows, our first one will be in Lynnwood WA on May 3-5. If you'd like to see a larger picture, just click on the image.          3/3/13 I've always thought there were enough marble molds on the market, that I wouldn't need to add anymore to the mix - apparently I was wrong. Over the past year I have gotten a lot of requests for smaller marble cavities, and it seems the 1mm cavity increment increases are very popular as well. Introducing the Marble Mold line of CGBeadrollers. Five paddles, with a total of 24 cavities, ranging from 8mm (1/3") up to 34mm (1-1/3"). I may be wrong, but I don't think there is a marble cavity that small on the market. I've also added a bundle package, buy all 5 and get a stringer tray bonus.  2/28/13 Stewey the chicken update: I got to hold him today! He was sitting in the corner of the shed with no where to run and I picked him up. Needless to say he's not happy with me right now, but he still comes running when I dump feed out for him. Fickle fellow. He's getting pretty big so we're guessing he was just a spring chicken when he got loose from the farmer coming through town. It was fun to hold him, can't wait to corner him again. Bwhaaaa  2/18/13 Went to a bead meeting Saturday night. I dropped out of attending for a while (while I was fighting my health), but now I'm ready to get back into the swing. I got to do the demo. A while back Tammy Whitham from Australia made a tutorial making tops with beadrollers and allowed me to post the pdf on my website, so that's what I demo'd. I forgot to take a baroque tool (BR-6901) with me, but that's another awesome top shape to do, and the ribbed tools give another dimension, too. Then I brought out the new beadcap beadroller. We played with it a bit then spent time 'thinking outside the box' with all the other things to do with the beadcaps. A dress for a little girl with her legs dangling out the bottom would be awesome, bells, earring tassels... Spinning Top Tutorial by Tammy Whitham  2/6/13 February is my Anniversary month, these first 4 years have really flown by. In the past I've made a special Anniversary tool, this year I'm doing something a little different. Check here for details. 1/20/13 I want to thank Double Helix for making the best clear glass on the market. I have been playing with their silvered glass since they first came out with. I could never get the intense colors everyone else could get. I did a bit better by encasing, but they would almost always break, so I caved and bought some their clear Zephyr. Now as if by magic, I have stunning color and confidence the bead will not break after it's sold. As you can see from the picture, it was consistent over and over, not just a one time fluke. Considering how many I've thrown away, at $40 a pound the price is saving me money - and time - and my hair. What the heck took me so long? Beads made with BR-8601 Graduated Drops and BR-5601 Chunky Donut Pandora Style   1/7/13 Random thoughts of my grandmother - I think she would be appalled at the amount of plastic bags I throw away. |
ETSY STORE eBay AUCTIONS MY CATS How To Arrange 5 Cats JOKES MISC BLOG ARCHIVES 2005-20011 2012 Bead Review 2005 The Wedding (Mr. & Mrs. Whitney) _____________________ Dancing at the Movies someone close my mouth for me, this pool trick shot left me speechless 360 degree panorama pix Paris by Night Evolution of Dance amazing, note the language fishy card trick Telemarketer Nightmare audio Chris Bliss the Beatles juggler The Godfather: scammer upsets the Mafia are you a Star Wars fan? Emperor Palpatine get a phone call from Vader This has been around a while, I just found it again How to Fold a T-Shirt David Hasselhoff's "Jump In My Car" German Coast Guard John Walshes Family Watchdog find registered sex offenders near you David Hasselhoff is hooked on a fealing this kid is too cute Fat Kid Gay Dance my husband found this (yes, it's clean) Men In Coats Vidio Tom Cruise Is Nuts John Titor time traveler click on 'John's story' left hand column Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii January 2006 short version - 32 pix long version - 337 pix my Seattle Sep/2005 trip my Seattle June/2008 trip _____________________  TRIBUTE TO MY MOTHER My Aunt Ruth's poem If Tomorrow Starts Without Me |
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