MARY JARVIS TO TEACH AT HARMONY GLASS

I will be teaching ongoing classes at Harmony Stained Glass in Pasadena, Texas.

2008
  • Saturday, May 17   11 - 6pm  "The Basics" for those new to beadmaking.
  • Thursday, June 5    6:30 - 9pm  Twisties and Tiger Beads
  • Saturday, June 14    11- 6   Intermediate Class to learn encasing, using murrinis to make a millefiori bead, Making a Tulip pendant bead and flower buttons.
  • Thursday, July 10   6:30 - 9pm  Goddess Bead
  • Saturday, August 9   11 - 6   complex twisted cane, Heart Beads, Hollow Beads
  • Thursday, August 14   Using presses: Lentil beads

Saturday classes are $125 all supplies included.
Thursday night classes are $55 all supplies included.

Harmony Stained Glass is located at 3512 Fairmont Parkway, Pasadena, TX 77504.
visit their website: www.harmonystainedglass.com

EXPERIENCE
I have made beads for eight years, most of those years with full-time devotion. I have studied with great American glass masters such as Sage Holland, Tom Holland, and Al Janelle. I teach many various flameworking skills and encourage the learner to build a wide variety of techniques. These techniques will become your toolbox as you let your imagination create the designs that are within you just waiting to become reality.

Through learning this challenging medium you will gain confidence and realize that the "impossible" is possible.

I also teach individual classes in my studio Mondays - Fridays. 9 - 4

3 hour minimum @ 30.00 per hour
Classes are designed according to your skill level and your interests in learning techniques in beadmaking.

For example a beginner will learn about:
  • Safety
  • winding molten glass onto a mandrel
  • making a small round bead
  • making stringers
  • using stringers
  • making dots
  • using the marver
  • making a flat bead
  • making a fish bead
  • making a twisted cane
  • making a disk bead


Advanced skills to select (short list)
  • making matching pairs of beads
  • encasing
  • using a mold
  • making a hollow bead
  • making a heart bead
  • making a complex twisted cane
  • making a tiger bead
  • making a flower button bead
  • making a tulip bead
  • making a goddess bead
  • making a mask bead (scuptural techniques)
  • making a vessel
  • making a wheel bead
  • adding surface decoration to a hollow bead
  • making a encased flower bead
  • maing a pendant or pendulum bead

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Contact me at maryj@bayoubeads.com to schedule a class
Flower Buttons
Hollow Beads
Vessels
Making and using stringers
Using Presses
Crystal, Lentils
Tulip Beads