Orange and Black Bracelet

The previous post was about our retro house. To continue that I show you a retro jewelry, an orage black bracelet. This is my favourite at the moment. Do you like it?

Designer Glass Buttons

Through a friend of mine I met a really nice designer, who has an own studio, named kamchatka. One day she called me, that she is in need for cool, BIG, glass buttons for a deep purple coat. I made her these. They are cool, aren't they?

Start Fusing Glass Again!

Christmas is over. The kids are back in school. We has a nice REALXING time. I tell you the truth I did not feel the relax-feeling while we were at home, but last night everythin was so nice and peaceful. I am REALXED.

Why is this important in a business blog? Because business is not all about work and die at the end. You neeg quiet times too. That was it!

Now we are back in business, starting to work on our new patriotic collection ang catalog.
I will show you when it is done!

How To Trade On Etsy

This is how it works:

• contact the person you would like to trade with to ask if they want to trade with you (helps if you already know that there is a mutual appreciation of each others work)
• decide what you would like from that person and find out what they would like from you
• the value of your item(s) and their item(s) needs to match - or near enough match
• reserve the items they would like in your esty shop - by putting a note in the description/header saying something like 'reserved - only purchase if your name is panyizsuzsi'. Your trade partner does the same in their shop.
• to make sure etsy get the fees, you and your trade partner need to purchase via the etsy shopping cart (we all like esty and we want them to get their fees - it's bad practice if you don't do this)
• you do not need to make an actual payment via the company that handles payments
  
• trade completed - send off the goods as you would with any order via etsy
• leave feedback for your trade partner.

I hope this all makes sense to everyone who hasn't traded before, and for those who have traded via etsy - did I get this right?

Unique Glass Jewelry – Unique Modul

To tell you the truth, I do not like glass litter, especially considering that Bullseye (our glass supplier) is jut about to raise prices. I know that not all firing will be perfect especially not at the first time, but unused glass scraps are a waste of money. For this reason we used to collect these scraps in out studio for later use. This is perfect for making one of a kind design, but if you make several pieces of one design it is no help at all. Being an architect, who constantly uses modules, I realized why can’t I have an own modul system. While designing in a modul system is not a big deal, cutting is faster and there is hardly any waste. So I created my own modul system. We also found out a new production system to match: first we cut modular width strips that is chopped to smaller pieces (the grammatic here might not be correct L) Yesterday we did work with the new system. It was great, fast more effective. The only thing that did not change is the style!

Glass Fusing and Lapmworking

Many people ask why don't I offer glass beads if I do glassworking anyway. There are a wide range of wish list in my blog comments and other feedbacks: some people would like some long ones and others wish to have somehuge ones or even tubes. There are many great ideas and inspiration in these comments, but fusing and lamworking are two totally different things.

Fusing
Fusing means cutting and layering some glass sheets and fuse them in a kiln at about 1500F. The end result is determined by the temperature and time spent in the kiln.




Lampworking
For lampworking you need a special torch to heat the glass rods until melting point. Then you "twist" it on preaheated stainless steel rod. These rods are previously covered vith a special liquid, that helps to separate the rod and the glass from each other.


Both of them has to be annealed. Annealing is a way of slow cooling method to minimie the stress inside the glass. If it is not sow enough, the glass will break.

Christmas shopping

As a member of European Street Team of Etsy, I do promote to shop early for Christmas. I usually shop early too. This has lots of great advanteges:

• you not have to shop in crowd
• you will have plety of time to order from Europe
• you will have plenty of time to bake cool cakes and cookies for Christmas
• you will not be dead tired on Christmas Day

This is what I do every year, believe me it worth it!

Contemporary Glass Jewelry 3...2...1... start!

Talking about Christmas has two aspects for me. One is the personal. I do start Christmas shoppong in August. (Yes, you read it well!) I do not like (might say hate) to shop in mid-December, when most people are in a hurry and impatient. I do not enjoy that. By end of October I am mostly done.

Considering the business part end of October is the time when our business starts to go fast, really fast! The panyizsuzsi contemporary glass jewelry line is real Christmas treasures and they make perfect stocking stuffers! We will not run out or have a low stock by December. In spite of this we will announce our deadines here. Deadline for commision and last shipping day for Europe and the rest of the World. This way we can make sure that you have your presents on time! That is part of the panyizsuzsi guarantee.

Until then we have many local fairs. The next one is:
WAMP
12th October, 2008. Gödör Klub (It will be inside, thanks God!)

Art Jury

We are proud to have the panyizsuzsi fused glass jewelries juried by the National Art Jury in September 2008.
This always feels good to be recognised, not only by friends and relatives, but some professionals. This Jury has quite a background. I remember as a child, that what a big deal was to buy a juried art piece. Today when there is a china shop in every other street I feel it has an even bigger value.

It always makes me happy to buy stuff from artist. This way I do vote against child labor and other nasty things and I do help an artist to live on his or her art! That was emphasized last Christmas to buy handmade and take the handmade pledge!

That is what I thought walking away form Buda Castle, knowing I am an Art Jury Certified Artist!

Free Giveaway

Would you like to have this ring absolutely free? You have nothing els to do, but to visit this blog and follow the rules!

Fall Winter Colors and Fused Glass

If you have been following out blog, then I am pretty sure that you know, that colors are a must for panyizsuzsi's glass design. We both follow the trend and stay unique and personal at the same time. We went shopping for some glass recently, take a look what we got! See them soon in our on-line shop!

And here is a color chart for the fall winter trends. Can you find some identical colors?

Coming soon: Fused Glass Cufflinks

These cuff links are soon to be seen im my Etsy shop!

Glass Fusing

While spending out holiday and traveling here and there I forgot to write about one thing! The great improvements in out studio. You would not even believe how we made our fused glass items. Until last Christmas all we had was a lousy glass cutter and a steel ruler.
For Christmas I got a Toyo glass cutter from my husband that I consider my favorite tool! This summer we made lots of new investment. Our KILN has just arrived. It is a cute littel feminine piece: stainless steel, programmable and it also has delay function. Moreover we bought a glass grinder as well!

There was only three programs of the rental kiln is available for us, but experimenting starts now. a little change here and there can make miracles! Here is some of them, without being fully happy with these:

Now we redecorating our studio and getting ready for the Szentendre Day and Night Art Expo.

Two More Weeks!

This is all that left from the summer holiday!
Still a lot to do! We have a mini vacation, a three days lodal festival ans lots of preparation for the school!
I am off to bed now, I need sleep from the yesterdays wedding!

Back to Glass

I was not blogging for three weeks.

I WAS ON A HOLIDAY!

I am sure many of you ask what did I do then?

Apart from caring for my three kids id READ! This is something I do not do, due to the lack of time, during the year.

I bought some good books for the summer. Three of them was English, but all of them were simply great:

1. The Boss Of You

It is all about woman’s indie business. It is in how to be proud and professional, how to run such a business. Well The time is coming soon when I will solely run our family business. Get ready!

2. Soapmaking

This is something that I am really interested at. I learned from this book, that the soaps we use today are really detergents containing petroleum! Yak. It has been a while since I use well crafted homemade soaps!

3. Noé márkája

This was the only Hungarian book on today’s consuming society. Our habits, that we do not even realize. It is a great book!

4. Glass

This book is on glasses. (Unbelievable, isn’t is?) Glass history, fusing thechnics and all kind of neat stuff. It was a lot of fun!

Now, that I had plenty of rest I am relaxed and my To- Do List is quite short. Just washing to do!

Vote for panyizsuzsi

I entered a competition with one of my jewelry set. Please check it out and vote for me girl indie!
I am entry No.12!
Voting will end at 12:00 am EST on July 20th.

If you vote and comment here you automatically enter my free giveaway and win this lovely pair of brown earrings! Thanks a lot!

out of order

My net provider is out of order due to a big maintenance. I will be back as soon ass possible.

For this reason I will give a 20% discount to all my customers on Etsy. Please mention "blog" in the message to seller area!
The offer is valid until midnight EST 31st July 2008. All discounts will be refunded after purchase!

Coming soon...

Glass,Glass and Glass

This week-end my little daughter needed some extra time and extra attention. She wanted to craft (Guess why?) and have mommy sit right next to her. She agreed that I can work on my glass cabs and turtn them into jewelry. She was wet felting a ball, that she first thought it would bee good to use the nice etsy bought soap. I convinced her, that those are much better for bathing, but she decided that they were gread decoration for our craft table!

Glass Crucifix

When I first started to work with glasses I was not a glass cutting expert with a lousy glass cutter. I do not think i have to explain more of this, but I tell you I never discarded the little bits and pieces. I started saving them up in a little box.

One day I started to think about how I could use these little triangles. I ended up making a baby blue crucifix. It was left in my studio for a while. First I did not find the perfect bail and then the ribbon was not the right color. One day I finished it. I thought it would be a nice baptism present for a baby boy.

Couple of days later I went to a craft fair, where I met an old friend of mine, who I have not seen for years. She came to me and said: We are going to a Christening today, don't you have any presents for that?I did, there was the baby blue cross. I was shocked. It really made my day.

Now I started to cut tiny triangles again and make these crucifix on purpose!