Silver Glass Beads

I decided to try working with silver glass again. I’ve been disappointed in my results in the past. Can’t seem to get all the colors out of it like other do.

SilverGlassIceChips-2

These have a silver glass core that has been heavily encased in clear. This are irregular discs that remind me of ice.

SilverGlassDots

Opal yellow base bead with silver glass dots. The big blue dots are silver glass with a big dot of clear on the top.

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Ivory Shards on Ivory Beads

Decided to go organic last night.

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Hollow big hole bead that I added etched copper bead caps and cored with sterling silver tubing. The bead is made out of ivory with silvered ivory shards melted in and fumed with silver. Thin lines of black and dots of turquoise and black embellish the bead.

Ivory-IvoryShardSetThe big bead is hollow except made on a smaller mandrel. Various surface decorations on the smaller round beads and two silver glass spacers.

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More Bead Sets

Have some new ones to show.

FlowerPowerBrightSet

Flower Power Brights set. Strikingly bright with raise dots and other surface decorations. These are fun and whimsical.

MultiColorFritBeads

Multi-color frit on clear glass beads. This was a tough picture to take. Different colors of transparent frit on clear glass gives these a watery look.

TurquoiseEnamels

Some of my favorite beads. Turquoise with enamels and various frits give these texture and design.

Published in: on August 4, 2014 at 12:53 pm  Comments Off on More Bead Sets  
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Flower Garden Frit Beads

These turned out really pretty. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what the bead is going to look like until it comes out of the kiln. These are on a pale, pale pink base bead then rolled in a floral frit.

FlowerFritBeadsHas kind of a vintage look to them.

Published in: on August 3, 2014 at 10:05 am  Comments Off on Flower Garden Frit Beads  
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Southwest Bling Bead Set

Southwest color scheme with silver and gold bling. 44 irregular shaped nugget beads.

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Modeled on Lenny the lamb…..

SouthwestBling-LennyLenny likes beads and if now my unofficial model.

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More Frit Beads

Played with African Violet frit last night.

AfricanVioletFritBeadPairs-1

These are all the same color frit but on different colored base beads. PeriwinklePurpleFritBeads

These are on a periwinkle base bead. Love this color!!RoundFritBeads-1

These aren’t African Violet frit at all. Just random round bead pairs with frits and shards.

Published in: on August 1, 2014 at 12:10 pm  Comments Off on More Frit Beads  
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Space Age Retro Beads

I didn’t know what to call these. They do kind of look like shooting dots, like shooting stars.

ShootingDots-1These are really fun and colorful. Striking on the white background.

Published in: on July 28, 2014 at 8:04 pm  Comments Off on Space Age Retro Beads  
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Silver Fuchsia Frit Beads

Got these made last night. They are on a white base bead, then covered with fine silver foil and rolled in fuchsia frit.

SilveredFuschiaRounds

The silver totally changes the color of the frit and lends a nice sparkle to them.

Published in: on July 27, 2014 at 9:20 am  Comments Off on Silver Fuchsia Frit Beads  
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Dot Beads With Big Holes

Made some big hole beads last night.

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Different colors to see what I like. I think I like them all.

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Green Beads

I don’t know what happened. Well, actually I do. I started with what I thought would turn out as blue beads but they didn’t look that way before I put them into the kiln. They looked green. So I changed up my colors from blue to green. The beads I thought were going to be green came out of the kiln blue!! They just didn’t fit into this set. Should have stuck with my original colors. Now I have a green set.

GreenRoundSet

Still a nice set but they’re green.

Published in: on July 22, 2014 at 8:55 pm  Comments Off on Green Beads  
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