not much beady time this summer..

But, I have done a few and I'm really pleased with this set..

practising my 'rounds'

I enjoyed myself yesterday morning practising round rather than 'doughnut' shaped beads - over time I have discovered that it's much easier to lay down a wider 'footprint' and marver it into a barrel shape, and then pile on enough glass to make a nice round ball rather than a narrow footprint and keeping on piling on the glass.. really we need piccies here.. how, I have no idea, except if I draw it on paper and photograph :-) might do that actually..

Anyway, here they are, I am rather pleased with them and may well be doing more soon unless my mind wanders again.. this lot are in my shop.

organic looking core beads

I've been trying out mixing up my silver glass colours this week, and I love the results! I can't wait to get on and make some more..

tags

I've been toying with the idea of having my own tags on my jewellery for ages, and I wanted to come up with something different - yesterday it hit me, and here is my first attempt! I think I'd like to introduce a bit of colour too..

starfish!

I've been practising this shape - it's been quite tricky but I am getting the hang of it! I'm happy with this one, it's pale transparent aqua with dots of Triton which are reduced to make them shiny!

Also, I've been trying to do my core beads in colour themes so that they go together - here are three pinks.

and some blues..

rainbows

Again! I do love making them though! I made one set, they were snaffled by someone who had been waiting for me to make some more, then I had more enquiries and made another set!

I want to try and do different things with rainbows, I've got some different ones on transparent cobalt blue which I'm just cleaning up to photograph - will show you in a day or so!

Hearts

My youngest wants to give a heart pendant to the teacher as a leaving present, so I had a play and came up with these.. the purple one is for the teacher!