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Welcome to the website of Gingebod Designs
The home of genuine Gingebod jewellery designed using my own individually handcrafted lampwork glass beads.
Please enjoy your journey through my little glassy world; navigate my website from the three little lines in the top Right hand corner of your screen. Feel free to contact me about any design either by email, phone/text or via facebook, click the link button to my FOLKSY online shop or come and see me in person- I have listed the places I will be taking my craft stall to in the 'where I can be found' section.
New Design ideas for 2024
This year I am developing my technique for making Mandala beads, which I learnt to create in July 23 after attending a weekend workshop lead by the amazing Jennie Braid-Lamb. I will also be doing more work using Sterling Silver, making my own clasps and components to compliment my designs.
Some of my recent designs
Bumpy orange and ivory coloured glass necklace
This necklace was created using natural Carnelian stones and Sterling Silver as well as my own beads.
Autumn colours necklace
Swarovski glass pearls in cream adorn this autumn hued necklace of ambers, pinks, russet and purples.
Seaglass style earrings
A special technique allows me to create frosted glass, not unlike the sea glass found on our beaches after a storm. Bali silver beads and Sterling Silver complete these earrings.
Simple forest green bracelet
I added natural Haematite donut beads along with Tibetan silver discs when creating this simple necklace from my forest green beads.
A little bit about me
My name is Lana Goulding and my workshop is in a lovely little North Norfolk village. I am a self taught lampwork artist who uses her own beads in combination with other types of materials to create unusual and often unique designs of jewellery and other lovely things.
I have been working with molten glass (lamp working) since 2013. I take my inspiration from the world around me; colours, music, the great outdoors; they all find their way in somehow!
My jewellery is designed using a mixture of bead types and Sterling Silver.
What I love to make
List of Services
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Bumps and spotsList Item 2
Probably my 'go to' design when I want to relax. The discipline of application with evenly spaced and sized blebs of glass, rhythmic breathing and mindful concentration is very therapeutic.
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FlowersList Item 3
Spring and summer in a bead! These flowers never fade and always look at their best. Some flower designs are on the surface of the bead, others, like the one pictured here are trapped within the glass.
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SwirlsList Item 4
Formed when really molten glass is rotated on the mandrel often with amazing results. This bead has the added bonus of being sparkly in sunlight.
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Sea glass effect
I never comb beaches after a storm for my sea glass effect beads. Once the bead is cooled from the kiln and cleaned, it is placed in a special tumbler with fine grit for around 8 hours to create a beautiful matte surface
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Shapes
Some of my bead shapes are completely free form, others like the shell shapes of this necklace have been pressed into a mould whilst the glass is molten.
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Glass interactions
Glass is funny stuff, it reacts in the oddest way sometimes. This bead shows the reaction of dark ivory glass when melted into black glass; it forms webs and doesnt stay as a spot. I love how glass behaves (never as one expects it should!)
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Bright colours
I love those really eye catching colours, in this case lime greens. This set of beads almost glowed in the dark, they are so intense!
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Silver glass reactions
There is a type of glass that is silver saturated. The rods are often a muddy brown; it takes special flame and kiln treatment to bring out their spectacular colours. This bead's glass changed to different blues from midnight to the palest with a mirroring effect.
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Natural stone and crystals
I often use different shapes of haematite stone in my design, I love the metallic grey shine it has. This is an Egyptian fan shaped necklace with Swarovski crystal beads in oranges.