| HI! We are Mark and Jodi Henry of Beadworx.com. We are hot glass artists who live in Arizona. We have two children that keep us pretty busy and fill our lives with joy and adventure! We love spending time with our extended family and friends, camping, and anything outdoors, and we love to PLAY WITH HOT GLASS, (we have a family of pyromaniacs)!! Jodi started beading about eight years ago, making jewelry and many other beaded items. In the fall of 2001, this love of beads eventually led Jodi into finding the wonderful world of... She began her online business with her glass art shortly afterward and has been melting glass ever since! After meeting Mark she quickly introduced the process of glass art and creation to him! A wonderful wedding soon followed in 2005, and the rest is history! We are now both completely addicted to this art of hot glass and love to spend time in the studio together! It is so fun to have a partner for feedback and for helping each other to come up with unique ideas for new shapes or color combinations. Of course having a partner that doesn't mind the addiction of glass or the spending of money for it, is nice too! We hope to be playing in front of the torch for the rest of our lives! You can check out our Galleries, some of Jodi's poems and some pictures of our family by using the links to the left. You can also check out some more fun facts out about us and our business down below. And of course you can view all of our current available glass creations on the "Lampwork" link(above)! |
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| The whole family loves to play with fire! |
| We have met such wonderful people and made some great friends through this art of hot glass. |
| This is a few of our members of the Arizona Society of Glass beadmakers at our home! If you are intested in joining our group you can visit the website |
| We love having a personal atmoshphere on our website and love meeting our customers! Some of them have even become our very good friends! |
| Jodi is always willing to help out those who are intested in getting started melting their own glass! She has encouraged and helped family members as well as friends, and even neighbors to get into this art! Several have gone on to start their own business! We have provided "tutorials" and "how to get started lampworking" pages on our website. We know how frustrating it can be when you are first starting out and have so many questions...we were just like you! |
| Here is Jodi insulating the room that is now our beloved studio!!! |
| A few times a year we participate in local art shows! It is always so fun to meet new people and "spark" their interest in hot glass! |
| We love learning where are glass creations end up or what our customers make with them! Our favorite so far is from our customer "Maddox" who takes adventures inside of Volcano's around the world. Rain water creates small lakes inside of each volcano and he uses our lampwork vessels to collect and store water from each volcano he visits! |
| You can check out the jewelry creations that our customers have made with our glass art in the |
| Feel free to send us pictures of your creations using our art and we will gladly post them into this gallery! |
| We belong to the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. To learn more please visit www.lds.org by clicking on the picture above. |
| We hope you have fun and enjoy your visit to our website! Always remember to love, laugh, and never take life to seriously! oh yah, and HAVE FUN SHOPPING! |
| That's really him inside the volcano, and he assures me my vessel is hanging around his neck! Isn't that awesome???!! |
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(Click on the children's pictures to view their creations!)
| Media Publications (in print and online) |
| Jodi's work has been accepted in an upcoming book "Glass Bead Workshop" by Jeri Warhaftig. It will be in bookstores in Spring of 2008. |
| Jodi's vessel wire wrapping tutorial appears in Australia's "Beading" magazine in the December 2007 issue. (picture coming soon). |
| Jodi's tutorial on vessel wire wrapping and making toppers appears in Passing the Flame "Spotlight on Hollow Beads and Vessels" |
| Jodi was the featured artist on "The Beading Times" online magazine in the July 2003 issue. Click HERE to see the article. |
| Mark and Jodi have an online gallery at GlassArtists.org |
