News and Events
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Judy’s Monthly Special
JULY 2010 SPECIAL - Winter Blues month. Everything blue 10% discount. Includes, plate glass, rod glass, millefiori, beads, jewellery, bead pens, books, and more. Some criteria may apply, feel free to enquire.
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Annie Rose May 2010 Glass Bead Week
May 2010 Annie Rose Bead Week. Once again a tremendous week worth of workshops from Curved Beads, wirework and Precious Metal Clay, to 4 full days of workshops with Sarah Hornik - this years International artist from Tel Aviv Israel.
Every year during Bead Week we get to meet some wonderful artists who come from all over the world. This year we had students from California USA, Adelaide and locally as far away as Christchurch. Everyone had an absolute ball! The workshops were motivating and inspirational and meeting other like minded artists and making new friends is always fantastic.
This years high points for me personally was learning how to use gold and palladium in lampworking - eye candy for sure. Probably a high point on a social level was having a student who was also a wonderful chef. Apparently there was Feijoa and apple crumble, carrot cake with a delicioushimo icing and a chocolate and cream feast, which many will be having to shed the pounds from in the months to come.
Photos of Bead Week including the Annie Rose Dinner Party and the NZGBA Glass Bead Competition awards 2010 can be viewed from the main page GALLERY TAB.
Wai Mason, Office Manager, Annie Rose Ltd
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NZGBA 2010 National Glass Bead Competition
The votes are in for the NZGBA 2010 Bead Competition theme.
"Elements" – Use 3 specific techniques to express one element of your choice, either Earth, Fire, Water or Air. The three techniques must be explained in detail for judging purposes
The NZGBA will be announcing the terms of entry and the prizes, categories etc shall be announced in 2010. You have a head start on designing your bead for the competition.
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Judith Sleavin Designs at TePapa Store in Wellington
Judith Sleavin Designs are now available for purchase from Te Papa Store as well as from Essenze Gallery Parnell, Entrance Craft Gallery Russell and our Annie Rose shop online. Be sure to stop in at the Te Papa Store in Wellington and check out her exclusive designs.
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Annie Rose Market Day November 2009
Annie Rose hosted its first annual Market Day on Saturday November 28th. Thank you to those who supported and helped on the day. There was a wonderful array of New Zealand hand made fused glass and glass beads, jewellery, blown glass goblets, vases and bottles, and silver clay pendants, rings, chains, jewellery making components and even a delicious hand made chocolate stall and a favourite with everyone - a temporary tattoo stall. We hope to see our annual Market Day get bigger and better every year, so keep it in mind for November 2010 - a great way to get gifts out there for the Christmas shoppers.
Congratulations to Aaron Nixon-Mead and Greer Scott who both guessed that there were 100 beads in the bead jar. Greer received a voucher for a glass bead making workshop and Aaron a voucher for a glass fusing workshop.
An open torch was available in the Annie Rose studio so that experienced bead makers could make beads to donate to the Beads of Courage Child Cancer Foundation. A big thank you to all those who participated in this very worthy program.
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Wearable Glass Spring Collection
On Show at Essenze Gallery, 285 Parnell Road, Parnell Auckland. On Show will be a selection of contemporary wearable glass jewellery designed & created by the members of the New Zealand Glass Bead Artists Community.
Necklaces, bracelets, earrings & more created with Handmade glass beads and fused glass from well known emerging glass artists. Exhibition runs until 18 October 2009. All welcome.
See the NZGBA website for more details www.nzgba.org.nz
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SUPPLIES - New Stock Arrivals
Skutt kilns perfect for fusing - 2 sizes GM1414, the largest kiln great for studios or schools with larger fusing space requirements, and the smaller Firebox 14. Click here for details.
New Effetre crystal clear now in stock. Also in stock, a limited amount of a new Effetre rod colour, transparent olive green, new millefiori designs, goldstone aventurine filligrana stringers and new colours in plate glass - ivory, violet.
Also in store the popular Gaffer rods GAF109 Chalcedony and GAF1095 Chalcedony blue -
G-1095 is a new version of G-109 with a colour-shift towards the cool blue-green end of the spectrum. It looks to be a very exciting new colour which our supplier tells us everyone will be able to get it to work without it reverting to the overstruck characteristic tan colour.
Gaffer Opal Chalcedony (GAF109) and Chameleon (GAF138) also now in stock - this is sold in multiples of 100gms, or 250gms. The GAF109 rods are approximately 3mm x 47cm long and you would get around 10 canes in 100gms. The GAF138 are more variable from thin stringer size to 6mm.
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Take a look - at this link to ISGB news - spot Lisa Jane Harvey and Karen Irwin's beads.
http://www.profitableglass.com/profiles/hotglass/files/ISGBnewsPGQSu09Web4-28-09.pdf
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Greetings from the Annie Rose Team
27/02/09 - We have exciting things coming up this year that we would like to tell you about. First and foremost, we have a "new look" web site that has been designed to simplify purchasing online. Please take a moment to check it out and we encourage you to try it and give us your feedback so that we can continue to improve your shopping experience with us. If you need any assistance or guidance we are only too happy to assist. We aim to continually improve our website and our services to our customers. If you have any comments or feedback it is always welcome. Please contact info@annierose.com with your comments.
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