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“There is always more to learn, and
that's the wonderful thing about lampworking for me."
Molly Cooley
has been making beads for two and a half years. Her husband
signed her up for a stained glass class. “I hated it,” she
says, adding, “but the gal teaching the class also made lampwork beads.”
Molly had found her calling.
Molly did not
consider herself a precision beader, she confides, “I was about
a year into beading, and I had tried hopelessly to make beads
like everyone else." She adds, “I sold some, but there was
definitely no ‘passion’ in them.”
Seeking her
inner muse and the “divine inspiration" she had heard so much about,
Molly says, “I was in the shower one day (my kids love Tea Tree
shampoo because the menthol cools their heads...boys!). Anyway,
I looked at the [shampoo] bottle and it was like the picture of
the tree jumped out at me. I thought... I could make that!”
You will find most of Molly’s beads to be focals, and the
majority of them will contain her signature “tree” designs.
Molly further states, “My love of nature, the moon, [the] sun,
and all the beauty around me I now put in beads. Find your
passion - - that's the key.” Now she loves to create new
landscape scenes, stating, “It is interesting to research and
see where I get inspiration.”
Molly also
gets inspiration from various artists' work. "I love Patti
Walton's landscape beads. They are absolutely magical, and
I am in awe of her. I think she is a pioneer, and it would
be an honor to meet her," she responds, adding, "I also think
the precision in Corina's beads is unrivaled."
“When I
started making beads, I made jewelry and sold it, but I am not a
jewelry designer - - it hurt my brain to come up with new
designs. I leave that to the professionals (although I do make
jewelry for myself)," Molly says.
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