Hand Crafted Glass Hearts carry on a family tradition of creativity

For those of you who don't know, I come from a family of creative people.  My mother, Barbara Elwood with me in the photo to the left, is largely responsible for instilling in me a desire to use my hands to make beautiful crafts.  I can remember her teaching us how to sew, how to make Barbie clothes, and my memories are filled with recollections of homemade Christmas stockings and
dresses made from scratch.

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This week, one of my cousins found some old photos of me and my sister dressed up in homemade green velvet dresses, made by my mother, for a family wedding back in the 60's.  (Photo right...I'm the taller girl behind my little sister, my brother is the ring bearer too).    These photos reminded me of what a long tradition I have in my family of homemade crafts...that continues to this day.

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This week my mother and I have teamed up to make some unique hand crafted jewelry for Valentine's day.  She has put together a collection of one-of-a-kind glass hearts that are decorated with Dichroic glass strips and hung on chains.  These pieces started as rough collections of glass that went into the kiln and came out as beautifully designed glass hearts.

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Both my mother and I are enjoying creating beautiful crafts to share with people.  I've been encouraging her to create a whole line of creative glass crafts.  At Christmas she made glass trees (pictured here) and now she has a line of hand crafted glass hearts you can find on my BeadItForwardStore.com.

Hope you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day. 

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