How to Make a Holiday Lampwork Necklace

Steps:

1. Light the torch and put on didymium safety glasses.

2. Warm up the glass, letting a ball gather on the glass rod. Grab the hot glass with tweezers and pull it out into a stringer. Let it cool. Make several different color stringers.

3. To begin making the light bulb beads, heat a mandrel in the flame of the torch. Heat a green glass rod (red shown) and wrap it around the mandrel.

4. Shape the glass to resemble a light bulb using a shaped marver.

5. Wrap clear glass on the mandrel at the top of the bead.

6. Wrap a silver plum stringer over the clear portion of the light bulb bead in a spiral.

7. Wave the finished bead in a reduction flame. Place the light bulb bead in a fiber blanket to cool gradually. Make two green and two red light bulb-shaped beads.

8. Wrap pink opaque glass around the mandrel to shape the Santa bead.

• Wrap white stringer next to pink glass so it touches.

• On other side of the pink glass, wrap red opaque glass.

• Draw on hair with white stringer.

• Wrap a white stringer around the bead above the face to form the brim of the hat.

• Add red stringer to the hat to form a drooping point. Add a white dot to the tip of the hat.

• Add eyes to the face with a small black stringer.

9. Melt a wide mustache with white stringer.

10. Add a nose to the face with pink stringer. Place the Santa bead in a fiber blanket. Make three more Santa beads for a total of four Santa's.