You CAN turn your passion into profit!

Marilyn Peraza is like any woman.  She enjoys her time spent with family and friends.  She also enjoys a unique passion and that is "LAMPWORKING".

Lampworking is the art of creating decorative glass beads, vessels or other glass objects by winding thin rods of colored molten glass onto stainless steel mandrels in  a torch.
 
"One of the processes the glass goes through after we have made our bead is to ensure that it is stress free and will last for a long time.  This is called annealing."  Marilyn adds, "Annealing is done in a kiln where the glass is able to slowly come down to room temperature thereby working out the stress from the extreme heat applied in the torch."

"When I started making beads, it was mostly for myself.  I made jewelry and wanted to
have unique beads for my designs.  Melting glass quickly became an addiction
and my passion.  People started asking for my beads, so I started to sell them to other jewelry designers and in local bead stores.   I currently sell my glass beads and designer jewelry on my website, at bead shows and fine art shows, The Annealer Magazine's Auction Boutique, ebay, and at bead shops in Florida."

What makes Marilyn's story even more interesting is that she turned her passion to profit.  She found that many lampwork bead artists do not have the luxury of being able to take classes or attend a lot of seminars and so there was a need for getting information that they could access when they were able.

That's how The Annealer Magazine came about.  It's a magazine dedicated to the lampwork bead artist and lampwork jewelry designer.

"In 2005 I started doing research on publishing a magazine.  Shortly after, I created the companion website and started up The Auction Boutique which went live in March 2006, at which time the magazine also started to become a reality.  In December 2006, after just over a year, our first publication of The Annealer Magazine was released!  It has been a huge success and I am now working on the second issue.  I continue to make beads on a regular basis, using the beads for my jewelry designs and selling the beads to other jewelry designers and collectors."

Marilyn's story could be your story.  Many of us spend our careers working in fields for which we have no passion.  We have dreams, but we don't act. Marilyn had a passion.  She fused that passion with a need, she acted and she's now a successful magazine publisher.  Have you turned your passion to profit?  What are you waiting for?

Go for it!

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