IMO, you need to start adding something to your auctions...
A drool factor.
On a scale of 1-10, your purple "glass petals 2" have a drool factor of like 30.
Now, I'm not now, nor have I ever been, a fan of the color purple (long story) but WOW. But that bead is AMAZING.
Karlee in Kansas
:) Thank you sweetie!! That is a combination of ink blue and dark amethyst mixed - it's a very dark grape purple color. :) With teal flowers. I just looooooove purple! Can you tell?
Very Purty!!!!!!! That's one of my fave mixes. I really like mixing my
Grr... That always happens on my laptop.
Anyway, what I was saying is that I really like mixing my own colors. Gives you infinite possibilities!
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Tink" :
]Anyway, what I was saying is that I really like mixing my own colors. Gives ]you infinite possibilities!
and beautiful, gorgeous beads. HOWEVER it makes finding seed beads to go with them sometimes a challenge!
i took "Tink-beads", and "Kandice-beads", and "Karen-beads" shopping today for matching seed beads. took a friend to help. drove sales ladies [2] crazy trying to get close matches for them.
but BOTH ladies oooh-ed and ahhhh-ed over the beads. "Gee, we don't have any like that here . . . "
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
It seems to me that different glasses have different color ranges that they may even be unable to get out of. I often find I can't find Japanese beads that match Czech glass, or Austrian crystals that match Italian glass, etc.
I still mourn about not being able to find lampwork in the orange through "rose" you find in flowers. Instead I find people offering rose and pink that are way into the mauve color.
Tina
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