BeadedLilyGlassWorks.com - Beadmaking Courses In Florence, Italy - Testimonials

Student Testimonials

It never crossed my mind that our beadmaking courses would be so international! Of course our Florence, Italy location makes it a little easier to justify traveling here to take a beadmaking course than to some places. :) And Florence is obviously a very international city, but wow...! To date we have had students from: Japan, Canada, Peru, Turkey, Croatia, the United States, Lithuania, the United Kingdom, Belgium and of course Italy (north & south). It has been a joy to meet these wonderful people and get some sense of who they are and where they are from. We have been very pleased to see both consistent local interest as well as from travelers.

After receiving a couple of nice notes from former students, I thought it would be fun to start a testimonials page that also celebrates the diversity of our student body!

Sedef - Istanbul, Turkey

"I thank you so very much for your grand patience. I
have learned a lot with you. My skill has certainly
improved vastly and those neat little tricks that
you showed and shared are the secret keys to easier
accomplishments. Last but not least making me feel so
at ease and at home made my learning process so much
more comfortable and fun. It was a great week of
learning and producing :) THANKS...

PS Please give my best to Lily and of course a big hug
for (shop dog) Siesta..."

Egle - Vilnius, Lithuania

"These Beadmaking courses were especially useful for me. Tim helped me to solve many different questions I was interested in, starting with the preparation of a workshop (torch, flame, tools, gas, gas cylinder equipment, annealing furnace, etc.), and finishing with such various techniques and details, play of colours, forms, decoration, etc! During the courses I gained certain knowledge; what is more, I was encouraged and inspired. Now I quickly move forward in beadmaking domain.

It was very pleasant to meet and work with the teacher Tim, who is an extraordinary person. He is not only a dedicated, good-natured, thoughtful, and friendly teacher, but also a very talented artist.

It is very pleasant to remember warm and creative atmosphere in the studio, lovely and sociable Lily, Louis, and other warm people who were there.

The souls and hostesses of studio dogs Siesta and Suzi are particularly unforgettable! I always smile remembering them! We would like to give thanks to Siesta on all our family’s behalf for her sincere and professional nurse’s work with our little son, who is only 1.8 years old!

And, of course, the microclimate of the studio is special as it is in the centre of the Old Town, surrounded by historical masterpieces of incredibly beautiful Florence, world’s art, science and culture!

I look forward to coming back here in future in order to improve and possibly to learn some other subjects taught in this studio. I sincerely wish others to come here and learn as well as spend holidays in Florence!"

Lesley & Norman Silver - Cornwall, England

"Tim the course was really great - It was exactly what I hoped for and more! It totally covered what I hoped to learn in the time we had.

When I decided to take a beadmaking course I had my pick of many from the internet - basically worldwide, as you are aware. I contacted a number of tutors and picked you out of all of them. The reasons: You communicated - You tried to accommodate my times - Your fees were fair and you didn't promise to make me a craftsperson overnight!!! Plus you sounded nice and you are! oh yes... and you lived in a nice area, which certainly helps but that wasn't the deciding factor, it was the fact that your website was honest.

Our only complaint was that we didn't have enough time..."

Maureen Williams - Staffordshire, United Kingdom

"I have just spent a most excellent three days with Tim on his bead making course. I learnt such a lot came home with some beautiful beads and Tim has the patience of a saint, always encouraging even when my beads look nothing like intended. I would thoroughly recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn a new skill and make beads of their own or update a beadmaking skill and combine it with a holiday in Florence, what more can you want to create happiness."

Constance Sijbesma - Brussels, Belgium

"It was very useful to follow your course and now it will be for the time being my last one, because it covered now all the techniques I should know. The winding and disk techniques went very well and much more efficiently then I have learned with the fast and furious way, because in that way it took me always so much time to reshape my bead. I expected to have problems to be back on my Firedevil propane torch, but it went quite okay.

Thank you again for the nice course, it helped me better to cope with the heat and the reshaping my beads. You also adapted the course to my needs, because I was not really a beginner, but still had to learn more better techniques."

Francesca Addabbo - Bath, United Kingdom

"I had a wonderful time learning from you. When I booked the course I was not entirely sure of what I wanted to learn so I asked to focus on hollow beads (at that time I believed I knew how to make beads and wasn't really planning on relearning.) I read from previous comments how good it was working with you and how patient a teacher you were. I understand now what they meant. Having been a teacher I know how hard it can be passing on information to others and mostly having the patience to accept the different speed at which different people absorb that information. You are definitely a natural at what you do (both making beads and teaching!). It was fascinating to watch you transform a lump of dead glass into a live and beautiful bead. And you were also fast at understanding my needs and switching to what you thought would be the knowledge I most needed to take home. Be assured I will treasure every bit of what you taught me (especially those nasty hollow beads...!) I have a new beading world opening in front of me and I am now counting the days to go back home and sit in front of my torch."

Hope Parker - Hawaii, United States

"I had a great time! The class was perfectly structured and even more fun and interesting than I expected. Thank you for your excellent teaching skills!"