I wish you a very warm welcome to Glass Tales and to my website.  My 'home page' will comprise an assortment of information: what I've been up to recently, together with my thoughts, hopes and wishes for the future.

Everything you will see during your travels around this site has been designed and made by me, Joanne Rohrer.  Where I may have used another artist's materials (e.g. handmade lampwork beads in some of my jewellery), acknowledgement is given.  I have the huge pleasure of knowing some wonderful people in this world and wish to spread the word about their fantastic skills and products whenever I can!

 (flamenco blues lampwork beads by Joanne Rohrer)

I hope that you'll forgive yet more delays in keeping things up to date here, so you can see what I'm up to in my world of Glass Tales.  Regrettably, health issues continue to play a far bigger role than I would like at the moment, affecting what I'm able to do in terms of my usual creativity.  I had originally planned to take a break until June 2011, to give things a chance to settle down.  Unfortunately, I will be extending this until later in the year.  This means that I won't be participating in either the Beadwork Fair in Dorking on Sunday 5th June 2011, or Surrey Artists Open Studios (SAOS).  I'm so sorry to have to pull out of these events, as they are always such a huge enjoyment, but I hope to be back to normal as soon as circumstances allow. 

Dear friends, that's all for the moment.  I'd like to thank you so much for visiting my website, but more particularly for your continued support.  Please do check my Events page, to see which fairs are coming up - I promise to update it over the next few days.  If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to drop me a line by email - I'd love to hear from you :-) 

Last updated: Sunday 22nd May 2011