Featured Artisan Lea Avroch of LA Jewelry Designs

This weeks featured artisan from the On Fire Team is Lea Avroch of LA Jewelry Designs. All beads are created by Lea Avroch, in her New York studio!  Unable to work following a spine disability, Lea started making jewelry over 15 years ago, hence the name, LA Jewelry Designs.

Lea had been making jewelry for many years and would often find herself wishing shehad a particular bead. So when she found out about a beginner lampwork class at the local art league she jumped on it and was immediately hooked. While Lea still makes the occasional piece(s) of jewelry, her main focus is on making beads. She gets inspiration mostly from nature; ocean, sand, beach, flowers, etc.  She says it's such joy to open the kiln in the morning to see the finished beads from the day before. 
"It is my hope that  beads will inspire your creativity in your jewelry," Lea.
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Featured Artisan is Joy Alyssa Day of Glass Sculpture.org

This weeks featured artisan from the It's Better Handmade blog ring is Joy Day of Glasssculpture.org. Joy has always interested in creating things when she was growing up. Joy and her partner create some amazing things together.  She is skilled in so many different techniques now and is constantly learning new techniques and new tools, and then combine them! Some of Joy's abilities include glass blowing, casting, carving, etching & molding, reverse glass painting, regular painting (on canvas), watercolor, wood turning, furniture making, wood carving, design, 3D modeling, digital painting, graphic design, logo and branding, marketing, computer programming, software development, writing, children's book writing and illustrating, framing.

Joy's love for cats and her own cats has inspired her to make pet memorials:
Kitty Memorial Urn - Sable Tabby with KittyFace Topper

Joy studied space and computers in college

 and her love for space inspires her jewelry pieces:

Fused Glass Tile Pendant - Radiant Panorama

Joy creates many large pieces too including baptism basins,

 bowls and communion Sets

Each item is handmade in the USA by Joy and her partner, in their mountaintop studio. They offer a range of art techniques and services including glassblowing (large and small), carving, etching, molding, fusing, painting, prints and installation.

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Stormy treasury by NaLa from Jewelry by Nala

Special thanks goes to NaLa for creating this lovely treasury 

of blues and grays called Stormy.

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My blue scarf was included in this too!