Thank you for visiting my "Me" page here on Ebay. My name is Lydia Muell. I'm a career glass bead artistan. Since 2005, I have enjoyed evolving my skill and experience in this wonderfully seductive art medium. All of my lampwork beads are handcrafted in my dusty basement studio, here in NC. Each one is properly kiln annealed, cleaned and inspected prior to shipment.

As for what goes into my work, my creativity is often influenced by my own personal feelings of nostalgia. Memories of being a small child, gazing on those little porcelain and glass objects my grandmother collected without being able to touch them influeces sort of "faberge" style work. Nostalgic moments are painful, yet sweet and what amazes me most about them is that you never really had to physically experience a time or place in order to be inspired by them. For me this is most true when it comes to the classical period. I obviously wasn't alive when Augustus virtually paved Rome with marble, but the spirit within my person seems to think I was. Each time I look at books filled with the ruins of that period, I become flooded with sadness and that feeling of emptyness in the pit of my stomach that can only be decribed as being homesick.  

Below is a sampling of my favorite work. To see more, I invite you to visit my online galleries. Most of my work is sold directly from my website, lampworktreasures.com (ashtonjewels.com).

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