Q: What does a typical day in the life of Judith looks like?
Oh my, pretty boring and uneventful, to be honest.
Of course I first get the kids ready for school (they are both still in Elementary School). Once they’re on their way, I usually first get the business paper “stuff” out of the way. I send out Paypal invoices, package beads and get them ready for shipping. Once that’s out of the way and the dogs had their morning walk, I normally head out into the studio to check on the beads from the day before.
While the kiln ramps up to temperature, I clean yesterday’s beads and make already the photos for later in the day, and as soon as the kiln is on temperature, I’ll sit down and start melting glass. My favorite time of the day!
In the early afternoon the kids come home from school, we do homework, and after-school activities as well as me starting to prepare dinner.
Sometime during the afternoon I usually start listing the beads that are ready to sell. Nowadays I’m selling almost everything through Facebook.
Often I spend the evenings with networking, marketing, communicating with my customers, and checking out some new glass colors or new trends. Sometimes I browse Pinterest or Instagram for some new color combos or inspiration for the upcoming days.
Q: Is there a particular bead and/or jewelry artist you admire or who you consider a role model?
I do admire a wide range of glass artists for their outstanding skills, innovative ideas or out-of-the-world talent, but don’t really consider them or use them as a role model.
There are so many bead artists that I admire, for a variety of reasons, it’s really hard to select just a few. But the names that come into my mind without even having to think about it are Lydia Workman-Muell, Joy Munshower, Harold Williams Cooney, JC Herrell, Sarah Sally LaGrande, Astrid Riedel, and Larry Scott.