Barbara’s addiction to glass beads began in the early 1990s but she was never content just to buy - she had to make them too.
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About 1994 she discovered she could make glass beads at home but it was in 1996 when she was fortunate enough to attend the bead bazaar at the Seattle Gathering of the Society of Glass Bead-makers, that she decided that this was what she wanted to do more than anything else.
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She took her first class with Kate Drew-Wilkinson in 1997 and since then has not looked back!
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Her degree in the physical sciences has given her an in-depth understanding of the behaviour of hot glass. This combined with her love of art and her practical experience as a laboratory science teacher, has moulded her into a top-notch glass bead-making tutor.