AD kinda.... Taking color requests

I like the ones that are like nipples. :-)

Even moreso now that I can see that they look like nipples.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. Though we can work with colors that aren't to our own taste ... such as for a commissioned work ... I think our best stuff emerges when we are working with something we ourselves love.

As for how many in a set ... what I use varies with the project, and I am also willing to adapt the project to what is available in components I am attracted to. I think that erring on the side of a couple too many rather than too few would be useful. People can always use 'left overs' for something small, like a pair of earrings.

Deirdre

Well maybe someday I'll learn to appreciate and not be so jealous of them! LMAO

-- Margie

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I had breast reduction surgery almost a year ago, and plan to have a small, intimate birthday party for the grrls. I'm thinking smallish cupcakes with a cherry on top would be an appropriate treat to serve. I'm guessing this helps explain my love for bumpy beads ;-)

I like surface decoration that has -shape-, more than I like little bumps that look like that 'sugar candy drops on a piece of wax paper' stuff I used to see in the candy store as a kid.

I like spirals and squiggles in transparent glass, and I like your raised flowers more and more as I see them develop.

But BFNR ("bumps for no reason") do very little for me.

Deirdre

Agreed... and they recognize who values them. I think Kathy's story makes that plain enough.

Deirdre

That's why...

Deirdre

I'm not generally fond of bumpy beads either. Although I did recently see someone who had made a pair into earrings, and that worked -- in a sort of "flying saucer" way, if that makes sense.

Celine

My take on it is this: generally, organics are abstract - it has more to do with pattern than color. Organics have no specific pattern. For me, the more pattern, the better. Geometrics have an intentded symmetry, most of the time. Organics do lean toward the earthy tones - a lot of ivory is used because of it's feathering quality - the glass feathers as you heat it up. Here are some examples -

are kind of in between, but lean more towards organic.http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2656165234&category=34070Most definitely geometric.http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2655106926&category=34070I would call this organic.http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2656530607&category=34070organic, even though you can kind of see a little pattern.http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2656572166&category=34070definitely organic. A lot of beads fall between the two extremes.

Thanks for that tutorial. I was confused on the subject myself and hadn't asked the question.

Starlia

These are kind of in between, but lean more towards organic.>>

Most definitely geometric.>>

I would call this organic.>>

organic, even though you can kind of see a little pattern.>>

definitely organic.>>

geometric.>

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I would call this organic.>Ok- my stuff falls into organic then:) Thanks for the pics/links too!!

Kathy K

Oh, green with jealousy. I wanna play too!

Starlia

If you move to Nashville we'll only be 4 hours apart.

Oh- and I lost the thread about goldstone/aventurine, but the blue works really well with periwinkle.

Wanna rent your video's Tink??!

yeah - and we can go and harass Louis:)

Yeah.. I am REALLY Interested in it...... Let me know when you are done.. I will paypal you some $$ for shipping..

I wanna come too.... at least Sooz is only a little over an hour from me :)

Nicole

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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Nicole Weltch" :

]I wanna come too.... at least Sooz is only a little over an hour from me :)

should i plan on emptying my checkbook when i arrive, like last year?

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's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

Umm. Yep! :)