AD: Back from course and playtime

I've taken the past two weeks off to play with PMC (pics to follow after I finish sanding and polishing, etc) and to have a mini-holiday at the coast, but I finally got a few hours in at the torch yesterday. It was hot so I thought about swimming pools and cool colors and voila, blues mosaic was the result. More beads to follow in the next few days

- some fun little orange and ink blue florals and who knows what else ...

Thanks for looking - the link is in my signature.

Susan in Canada

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S. B.
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Oooh, lovely Blue Mosaic!!

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Kandice Seeber

Lovely, crisp, clean beads Susan.

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Marisa Cappetta

I passed up a set on ebay today because they didn't match. They were lovely, but a jumble of no-two-alike, and I just couldn't sort out what I might be able to do with them.

Laura

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laura

Oooo... I want to dive in.

Deirdre

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Deirdre S.

Thanks Carol!!!!

Susan in Canada

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S. B.

Hey! I didn't get the original post. Where's the link?

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Beadbimbo

I would really like to hear more thoughts on this. I tend to make beads in pairs so they WILL match, and can't seem to muster a cohesive set with no two alike. I've done a couple lately, but they simply don't look right and I have a hard time listing them at auction. I'm not quite sure why I even want to DO unmatched sets.... but it bothers me that I'm not comfortable with asymetry. Carolyn

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c driver

Here they are:

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in Canada

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S. B.

I don't mind asymetrical balance, but it's hard to achieve. And color too has different "weight" to it, making that balance hard achieve when different colors are used. Your sets are always cohesive, and I imagine that would be true even without mostly matched pairs.

Like I say, sometimes bead makers get fancy, adding new elements. Or sometimes they pull extra colors out by adding spacers in a different color. Now I don't mind spacers repeating the main color in a set, but if it's something added for spice, it may be the wrong flavor and I end up buying spacers I don't want. At handmade prices.

I'm just rambling here, and this is not a problem I have with you.

Kandice manages to achieve a symetry using variation is color, size and details. But it's an unusual talent.

Tina

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Christina Peterson

I want to see your PMC, too.

Tina

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Christina Peterson

I'm not looking for cookie cutter, factory-like matches-- that would probably turn me off. I like handmade things to look handmade. I just want even numbers of beads that roughly match in size, shape, color and pattern, and then additional beads in the set with some similar attributes that match each other-- again in even numbers. And a focal bead that goes with all of the other pairs/groups.

I appreciate good, fully asymmetrical designs, but I don't yet have the eye or the skill myself to pull it off.

Laura

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laura

Me too!!!

But Susan, those were some great looking beads too!

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Beadbimbo

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "S. B." :

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are gorgeous, Susan!!!!

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