Calendar of Events

November 16th -

Stephanie shows us how to make a Genie bead, a new design for Beads of Courage! This Virtual meeting is at 4 pm on zoom!

Mark your calendars for Saturday, December 7th at 11 am at Beads by Design for the Holiday Party! In person only. Bring a wrapped glass tool, lampworked bead, or glass for a gift exchange! More info as the date gets closer.

(postponed until January 18th) Judy facilitates our show and tell program with participants showing their favorite bead tool. Please BRING your tool to tell everyone why its amazing! Join us in person at Spruill Center for the Arts, room 7 or virtual on Zoom. 4 pm.

October 19th - 4 pm -Vicky is the guest artist - sheep demo! Join us in person at Spruill Center for the Arts, room 7 or virtual on Zoom. 4 pm.

September 21 - - IN person OR virtual on Zoom meeting: Margo will demo a Halloween themed bead! Meeting at Spruill Center for the Arts, room 107

August 17 - IN PERSON at 4 pm - Bead exchange at Spruill Center for the Arts! Room 7

Note: this is beads only, no tools at this exchange! Bring a wrapped bead.

July 20 - Virtual tour of the Imagine Museum in St. Petersburg, FL hosted by JoAnn Bogner

June 15- Lynn Short shows off her beaded jewelry and shares some design tips with us as well as where to shop for findings

May 18 - In person meeting at FLAMETREE, in Roswell - 4 pm start time - demo by Lance McRorie

April 20 - Hillary Lawson of Soleil Beads will demo how she gets beautiful effects with Double Helix glass!

March 16th - Stephanie demonstrates bead techniques with baking soda bead

February 17th - in person at Spruill or online via zoom - Susan Oltman - sculptural bunny rabbit

January 2024- Marcy Lamberson - Dragon bead demo

December 16th - Holiday Party at Beads By Design - 12 Noon to 3 pm; bead / glassy gift exchange, food and fun!

November - IN PERSON at BBD studio - Stephanie demos recycled glass and Murano, Italy presentation

October - Marcy Lamberson sculptural bead demo

September - Brunch and bead swap at Beads By Design

August - Mary Karg demonstrates cold working to reveal underlying bead color

July - JoAnn Bogner implosion bead demonstration

June - Margo Knight demos a "Little Monster" bead

May Meeting: Members' Floral Bead show-and-tell

April Meeting: Stephanie White demo - Boro Chain necklaces

March Meeting - Chris Haussler, Guest Artist from Nebraska!

February Meeting - Stephanie White glass bead demo

ISGB Creativity Challenge: Viva Magenta! Pantone color of the year - anything in pink! Entries due February 28th

January Meeting - Marcy Lamberson, Guest Artist - Polar Bear! Photos below.

January 21, 11 am - via Zoom

ISGB Creativity Challenge: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE! Entries due January 30th

January meeting - Saturday, January 20 4 p.m. on Zoom

Marcy Lamberson on-torch demo - bead is TBA

December meeting - Lunch and Glass bead swap! At Beads by Design

Saturday, December 16th from 12-3

November Meeting - 12 Noon Sunday November 19th

In person meeting at Beads by Design!

Stephanie will demo recyled glass techniques and share about her trip to Murano, Italy as well as The Gathering

It's an Artist Open House, too - Stick around afterwards to shop and to tour the other open art studios in the complex!

Bead Swap and brunch! Sat.September 9th 11am - 1pm

at Beads by Design

Bring a wrapped bead and join us for fun and fellowship!

These are the beads that members created and swapped with each other!

Stephanie White's bead for Venice samples

Clockwise, from top left: Pink floral by JoAnn B.; Blue cut with sterling findings by Judy H.; Silver glass raven pendant by Margo K.; component floral by Vicky T.; Landscape bead by Susan O.; Ivory and natural tube by Martha F.; Masked dot bead by Meagan S.; Center butterfly murrini bead by Stephanie

Bead Swap and brunch! Sat.September 9th 11am - 1pm

at Beads by Design

Bring a wrapped bead and join us for fun and fellowship!

Our NOVEMBER 2022 meeting was Saturday, November 19th at 4 pm. We learned how to make boroslilcate icicle ornaments! Our guest artist was Marjorie Langston.

Marcy Lamberson, a longtime Southern Flames member, is our January demo artist. Topic is a sculptural polar bear!

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Chris's chickens...

Nebraska artist Chris Haussler creates a myriad of glass art objects including these colorful chickens.

...and little sluggies!

On March 18th, Chris will demo both a chicken and a sluggie for our monthly meeting via Zoom.

February's meeting was a full length demo of the ISGB 2022 Commemorative Bead, pictured above, The video can be viewed here.

March, 2023 : Guest artist Chris Haussler demonstrated how he makes his adorable chickens! He made a large white one and then a wee, blue and white one. The sluggie with the glow in the dark eyes was the adorable critter he made. Even though the poor guy fell on the bench right before going in the kiln, he survived just fine. Thank you, Chris! We look forward to seeing you in October!

APRIL MEETING
Stephanie White showed the group how to create and connect links of boro glass using 4 mm clear boro rods ( available at Flametree Glass).She demo'd several shapes ( oval, triangle, round and even a heart!)