Friday, March 20, 2009

Friday is here, the calendar says it's spring . . where is it?

Just a quick drive by to say I had a fantastic time torching last night. I didn't make much, but what I did is great. Here is a preview of what I made. See if you can identify it:


I'll be back later with the rest of the beads. Suffice it to say this was definitely my favorite. How fun is this!!! I also made a ruffled bead, a purple and turquoise bead and some little ivory spacers (4-on a rod) just to see if I could.


As promised, here are the others. Some little dark ivory spacers, a wavy bead made with copper green and silvered ivory stringer (SIS to glassy folks) over Opal yellow. I heated gravity swirled and crimped it, then reduced it to bring out the metallic shine. Then I made a bead that is nearly 1.25" (31mm) high using a dark ivory base with turquoise and EDP (Evil Devitrifying Purple-I love it!!) and SIS, then squished and dotted and melted and dotted with transparent purple. Isn't it a cool bead. I made the back flat so it would lie nicely when worn. Don't forget if you want to see them bigger, just click on them.

5 comments:

Deb said...

Aubergines on something?
Well that's what it looks like to me ;o)

Rita'z R-tistic Ramblez said...

Absolutely!!! They are eggplants in a nest. :D I love plays on words in art, so I rose to a challenge Louise had posted about combining an animal, a vegetable and a thing. I just couldn't figure out how to get the Purple Hen in there. :D

Louise said...

Hi Rita, love your new beads, I've added the eggplants in a nest to my blog today ;o)

Louise

Paula said...

Rita WOW you are doing GREAT work, it's like it happened over night. Yep, you need a purple hen to go with the eggplants in the nest. : ))

Louise said...

Rita I gave your blog an award :D
the info is here http://www.fireseed.ca/?p=1944

Hope you have a good Monday!