Glass by Sarah

Pinterest is my new favorite waste of time. It’s a really fun site – you get to spend hours looking at pretty pictures, selecting your favorites and pretending you’re doing something productive (hey, I really need to put these style boards together, ’cause I’m an artist and stuff. I’m working!)

I’ve recently decided to actually be productive, and use my Color Inspiration board for, well, color inspiration. Here are some of the results. I’m not sure what the etiquette is on blogging pins, so I’ve added a small thumbnail version and a link to the pin below.

Link to Beads (sold, thanks!)

Link to Pin

If anyone wants an invite to Pinterest, you can send me your email address (I’m sarah.hornik [at] gmail) and I’ll send you one. (Or you can sign up for one on the site – it takes them a day or two to send it.)

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Copper Leaf Obsession Continues…

Sarah — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:09:51 +0000

Nightfall

Fable

Marvels

Loud Whisper

Life on Mars

Hide and Seek

Now on Etsy!

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Everything but the Kitchen Sink

Sarah — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:12:38 +0000

Clearance Sale in my Bead Shop:

It’s that time of year again! I’ve added a bunch of items to the sale section of my shop. There are lots of focals and some sets for reduced prices - click to check them out!

New Earrings

A new take on an older design… I love making these. You can find them in my jewelry shop.

I love wearing them, too – so I had to steal a pair for myself. If you follow me on Facebook you may know this already, but I got my ears pierced for the first time just a few months ago, at age 35… yeah. Wanting to finally be able to wear my own earrings was the main source of motivation there. And, I recently got kind of a drastic haircut. So I’m all about earrings these days.

Anyway, my spacer earrings are fun to wear and they reap a lot of compliments. One woman even wanted to buy them right off my ears. (I’m making her a similar pair. These ones are mine. MINE!)

(I'm not sad, I just always look sad in photos, because the only other option is stupid goofy smile.)

New Rings, Too

Just a couple for now, but more are coming soon.

I Think I’m in Love…

With copper leaf. I’ve used it in the past, but now I’m combining it with enamels and loving the results. How fantastic is this shade of turquoise?

These new sets are now available in my bead shop.

Set in Stone

Copper Age

Delight

And while we’re at it…

I’ve posted lots of new stuff at Sarah’s Printables, including some coloring sheets and other items you can download, print and color yourself!

There’s also a new Facebook page where you can keep track of what’s new (and your likes are much appreciated).

I think that’s it for today?

Am I forgetting anything?

Well… I guess I’ll get back to the torch then. See you soon!

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Beads and Jewelry: The Lost and Found Collection

Sarah — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:54:31 +0000

On a brief visit to London back in August 2010, I was referred to a certain gallery that specialized in handmade artisan jewelry. I went there with a bunch of my pieces and butterflies in my stomach, and to my delight, the owner liked everything. While I’ve never been a big fan of the idea of consignment, I was excited to leave quite a few pieces of jewelry and a few loose focal beads behind – because, after all, being able to say “my jewelry can now be seen at a gallery in London” sounds really cool.

Unfortunately, things turned out to be not so cool. To make a long story short – the gallery closed down just a couple of months later, which I had to learn about from their website. They hadn’t sold any of my pieces, and to make matters worse, the owners vanished off the face of the earth. Bouncing emails, unanswered phone calls, the works. I was begrudgingly beginning to accept the fact that I had paid a very high price for my own naivety – many, many hours of work and large amounts of money invested in materials (not to mention the price of silver doubling itself since then), all down the drain. The thought of never seeing all that jewelry again was seriously depressing.

Miraculously enough, the jewelry showed up in my post office box last week – a year and a half later - after making a stop at a good friend’s address in the UK! It’s back! It’s actually here!

All’s well that ends well, I guess. Needless to say, I will never be selling on consignment again. But now, I’m so happy I can finally list all the jewelry on Etsy. I still have a lot of photographing to do, but in the meantime… the pieces I was most excited to take out of the box were these bracelets, because I think they’re some of my best work. I am now calling them my Lost and Found Bracelets.

This one was featured in the 2011 Women's Edition of The Flow magazine.

There were also some loose focal beads in the box, and I’m offering these for $29 each in the sale section of my bead shop.

More Lost and Found jewelry will be posted soon – stay tuned!

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Thinking Pink (and Purple and Blue)

Sarah — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 22:21:53 +0000

I promised to show you photos of my new place, and I know that was like a million years ago, but I’ve been a little slow with the unpacking and organizing this time. Sorry about that. The important thing is, today I can finally say my apartment is beginning to look like a place someone actually lives (and works!) in. So, here’s an extra-special post full of delicious pink things. And blue things and purple things too.

A couple of months ago, just before I moved, I decided I was desperately tired of looking at brown, generic furniture, so I painted everything in blues and purples. Painting furniture, as it turns out, is really fun for the first couple of brush strokes (OMG this is SO cool). Then it gets kind of boring (umm, okay, looks like this might take longer than I thought). At some point you may even find yourself scrubbing purple paw prints off the floor (noooooooooo, Moby, NO!). Then you start to hate paint and paintbrushes (how is this bookshelf not finished yet?!) and particularly turpentine, after you accidentally dumped half a bottle of it on the bathroom floor (##$@$%$@!@#!!@%$%$%!). And then it takes the paint forever to dry. But hey, after it’s all done, you don’t have to look at generic brown furniture anymore. And that rocks. Moby thinks so too.

I couldn’t stop there, of course. My sofas were looking like the most hideous pieces of furniture on the planet, particularly due to my darling boy up there. Fortunately, my wonderful friend Sigalit not only makes beautiful jewelry, she can sew sofa covers as well! So I went to pick out some fabric, and I was thinking purple and turquoise to match the furniture, but of course I couldn’t resist the fuchsia and the orchid. So now I kind of feel like I live in Boho Barbie’s Dream House. In a good way, of course.

My infamous marble table got a paint job too, as you can see, and a different selection of marbles. (Previous version here.)

Although I love my new living room, I can’t spend all day sitting in it… a girl’s gotta work, right? My wonderful friend Amnon helped me set up my new workspace. I’m working with an oxygen concentrator now and actually really enjoying it. It’s great not to have to worry about oxygen running out in the middle of a bead!

Since the window is closed in the photo, I should show you the view from my new studio. Not very scenic, I know, but as you can see, I couldn’t be more conveniently located. Even if my glass runs out in the middle of a bead, I can run across the street, buy more and almost get home in time before the bead cracks.

When making my first beads in my new place, I found myself strangely drawn to pink (and blue). I wonder why.

Since I have such wonderful friends who make this all possible, I had some of them over today for a little belated housewarming. In the spirit of pink and wonderfulness, I made a strawberry-mascarpone pie. No, really, I did. I’ve got proof.

My wonderful friend Tal must have been reading my mind when she brought these stuffed beets, which tasted as good as they look!

Conclusion: Pink, in all forms, is the best.

But just look at all those other colors waiting to be melted…

They know their turn is coming soon!

Attention Hebrew-speakers: I wrote an article this week about the state of the local handmade community. If you haven’t yet, you can read it here.

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Pre-Holiday SALE – 20% off everything! And… a New Etsy Shop!

Sarah — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:16:13 +0000

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I’m having a pre-holiday sale on Etsy!

Use the coupon code PREHOLIDAY to to receive a 20% DISCOUNT on any purchase from my bead and e-book shop or jewelry shop!

Sale ends November 30, 2011.

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In other news: I still don’t have my torch set up in my new apartment yet, and at this point it’s driving me crazy, as you can imagine. I hope to have things up and running within a week or so.

However, I’ve been keeping myself busy with some unglass stuff. You guys know how much I love my Prismacolors. So, I’m excited to announce my new Etsy shop! Sarah’s Printables offers printable items for scrapbooking, cardmaking, jewelry making or anything else you can imagine. There are also some printable greeting cards, and more items will be added in the very near future! All products were hand-drawn and colored by me, then scanned at a high resolution. You are most welcome to visit at http://sarahsprintables.etsy.com.

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E-Book SALE!

Sarah — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:05:59 +0000

Hey! All my E-books are 50% off till Wednesday (Nov. 2, 2011)!

You can find the sale prices on my E-book page.

Enjoy!

I’m at my new place in Tel Aviv, and I’m ecstatic to be here! I’m going to tell you more about it and show you some pictures, but I’m the most exhausted person in the world right now so that will have to wait for a bit.

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