AD: Halloween Beads & Ending Auctions

I didn't see the original post so I'm piggybacking (not too heavy, am I, Margie? LOL)

I love, no, wait...I LOVE....no, wait...I SUPER_LOVE your folded up bat bead.

Awe, thank you. I like him too. I was going to hang him upside down alongside the big bat but there is such a difference in size it would have looked goofy. I am going to make more....

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:37:06 -0400, starlia wrote (in message ):

One thing, and it might just be me - I see fingerprints on the beads. I don't know why, maybe because you're a really good photographer and most people don't catch that level of detail.

Does the big bat have a face? I love that the little bat is hiding his face. Heck, I just love the bats unconditionally.

Kathy N-V

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 1:03:45 -0400, starlia wrote (in message ):

Way cool! How about etching a few of them, and putting some of that subtle glitter dust on others, and alternating them with pumpkins, and giving some eyes that glow in the dark?

Did I mention that I'm wild about the bats? ;-)

Kathy N-V

Obligatory Bat Factoids: Bats are the only mammals that fly. There are over 750 individual species of bat.

Those are great suggestions. I was going to pick up glow dust tomorrow when I picked up my boro rods. Guess I can play tomorrow when I get home.

Uh huh.

We have two huge colonies of bats in Austin. It's awesome to watch them on their daily departure from the bridges (1 million bats on one and 200,000 at the other.

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V :

]Obligatory Bat Factoids: Bats are the only mammals that fly. There ]are over 750 individual species of bat.

and they're so CUTE.

Goodness this post took forever to come through! Awww I feel all special now, cause I had something that inspired you:) Not that I knew which beads you're referring to, LOL.

The beads were in one of your sets along with one of your bracelets.

OKay, now I have to ransack my beads before I go to bed to see if I can figure this out. *laughs* G'night Starlia--get thee to bed, woman!

I would SO love to see a choker-length necklace made with five of them hanging upside down in bat-fringe! The funnest thing would be how long it would take people to notice that they were bats.

-Kalera

There are some big honkin' bats in my back yard. Big for this part of the world, anyway; most of the bats around here probably weigh less than an ounce. I have some big guys that have been feasting on the termite swarms, they must have had 10-inch wingspans.

-Kalera

Holy cow those are huge bats!

That would be too cool. I made some more bats tonight after receiving many requests. LOL

Oh COOOOL. ~~ Sooz

Feasting beasties! I love that!

~~ Sooz

Yeah, I was really surprised. You can HEAR their wings flapping! They're LOUD bats, too... they make a wide variety of chuttering and squeaking noises.

I have never seen bats that big outside of the zoo.

-Kalera

I wonder what kind they are. We have very small Mexican fruit bats here. We have them in the millions but they are still small.