Hi!   I'm Sharon and I’ve been making handmade Flameworked glass beads since April 1996, and boy, was THAT a class!  The second I lit the torch, turned on the oxygen and the yellow flame turned blue, I was hooked forever.  You've gotta try it, better than chocolate!  

I use Effetre glass imported from Italy, a couple of different kinds of surface mix oxygen  propane torches (mostly the Nortel Minor Bench Burner and the Bethlehem Starfire ), and a computer controlled annealing kiln. 

It’s way too much fun, melting glass and building up beads from the inside out, and burning hair & assorted body parts (really! Ask me sometime about the Amazing Day Of 15 Burns...)

My beads are bright and silly, with eyeballs, bellybuttons, butts, and stupid grins. They all have names, many with rancid puns. I usually come up with the name first, and then mess around till I finally have a bead to go with it.  

Come on in! There's lots of bead & jewelry pictures, a less than serious (but true) bio, pictures of nifty things folks have made with my beads, my show & class schedule, and lots of other stuff.  Wanna learn how to make a fish? Check out the How Beads Are Made pages - whatcha waiting for? Dive on in!