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		<title>Artist Statement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creative exploration and expression, for me, is a compulsion. I need to create and express myself through colour, texture, type and shape. I’m blunt and honest, a quality that shines through in all my creative pursuits both in the office as a graphic designer and at home as a jewelry designer. Think of the world [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michelle-atkinson.net/2011/09/1164/</link>
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		<title>Lamp-working</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lampworking is a type of glasswork that uses a gas fueled torch to melt rods and tubes of clear and colored glass. Once in a molten state, the glass is formed by blowing and shaping with tools and hand movements. It is also known as flameworking or torchworking. Lampworking differs from glassblowing in that glassblowing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michelle-atkinson.net/2011/08/lamp-working/</link>
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		<title>Glass Fusing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost everyone is shocked when I say I make the beads myself. Then they ask, &#8220;How do you do it?&#8221; Well I use two different glass techniques, glass fusing and glass lamp-working. Fused glass is a term used to describe glass that has been fired (heat-processed) in a kiln at a range of high temperatures [...]]]></description>
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