About Coloraddiction

I’m Kandice, and I am addicted to color!  I’ve been a glass beadmaker for about six years, and before that I worked in retail and the occasional jewelry-making. I adore what I do, and find myself more and more in love with glass color as time goes by.  I am 35, married and live in Washington State with my husband Ken, and kitties Pumpkin and Ember.I’ve always loved beads and color - I first got into beading when I worked for a fabric store during my college years. Color is a major inspiration of mine - I adore the way color plays with light. I bought lampwork for my own jewelry creations for awhile, and just fell in love with the medium. When I discovered several years ago that one could make her own beads, I was hooked!

I decided to do the Coloraddiction blog as a way to connect with all the people who have been emailing me asking me when I am going to start teaching lampworking.  Since I don’t have the facilities to teach in person, I thought I would do some teaching online!  This blog is the beginning of that.  I have started with mini-articles on glass colors that I have had experience with, and I hope to begin including tutorials complete with pictures, and other projects in the future.  All of the info here will be completely free for you to use, print out, pass on to others, etc.  Please credit me as the author if you plan to share any of these articles with others.

My beads are made from Effetre (Moretti), Vetrofond, Precision, Kugler (ASK 104), CIM and/or Lauscha glass, so those are the glass brands and colors I talk about in this blog, for the most part. I may branch out if I find something really cool, though! You can visit my website to see more of my work at lampwork.net.