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Starlia you are killing me!!! I love them all and wish... oh how I wish... I had the money! They are beautiful and the doll is awesome!

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Thank you Harry. I really like this doll a lot. She was more a labor of love and that's why I like her so much more.

I had the money!

The fish is so cute.

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ROFLMAO!!! Like crack!!! Kalera - do you want my lentil mashers? They are a little off center, but if you need the 1" version, you can have mine for free.

Same here. I am lenticularly challenged, and have no desire to perfect the shape. :)

I certainly do like lentil shaped beads, but it's inspite of the shape, not because of it.

Tina

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I started with the big tool, and just got a teeny one recently. What about it bugs you? It's the Tapcraft one, right? Maybe I can help you troubleshoot.

-Kalera

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I'm very touch-oriented, and I find the shape quite sensual. I also like the way certain patterns are accentuated on a lenticular bead, and the way they look like candy when in bright colors, and the way the small transparent ones look like gemstone, and the way they -click- together, and the way they lay on your arm as a bracelet... I can understand why people don't like them, too, because there are some shapes I'm not crazy about.

-Kalera

Christ> I certainly do like lentil shaped beads, but it's inspite of the shape, not

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Would I ever!!!

Kandice Seeber wrote:

I'm probably putting too much glass on the mandrel, but it just doesn't seem like enough. I've already had one crack in half on me. That's not a bad thing since I'll take it to Melissa's for her bead memorial.

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With the bigger tool, the tool really doesn't open enough to get the mass of glass in, which is a definite design flaw! I get around that by flattening it slightly onthe marver, flashing it back into the flame, and then squishing it with the lentil tool. What you're going for, size-wise, is enough to fill the cups completely without squishing out the sides to form the dreaded "ridge". However, better too much than not enough; you can always fire polish the ridge away.

-Kalera

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Yeah, I worked with the tool when we got home tonight. The mass wouldn't fit into the lens so I did as you said and marvered before pressing. I can see it working well for my hollows since they are huge. I kinda like that.

I also got more Val frits and silver foil in the mail today. I'm off to play some more.

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Cool! I love silver... OH, how I love it! And frits are agonizingly addictive. I am completely dependent on Val's frit; I am almost ashamed of how much I've spent on it! I live in terror that she will stop. I have bought half-kilos directly from the supplier in my favorite colors, but half-kilos... that's a LOT of frit. I like to just be able to buy little bits in a lot of different colors.

Speaking of frit, I just bought a whole bunch of Bullseye frits in some of my most favoritest colors, but you have to buy a pound at a time, so I'm going to be divvying it up into smaller bags and selling it on my website. I'm so excited! I got aventurine green and royal purple and steel blue and a new delicious color I've never used before, striking pink. Mmmmmm! And some sheet glass in luscious colors.

I AM A GLASS JUNKIE STOP ME. If you only knew how much glass is in my garage...

-Kalera

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Glass junkies unite! LOL

Please let us know when you put some in baggies. I'll be first to hand over money for a baggie of frit.

You can't even guess how much Val frit I have. It's like every time I see her name or the word frit I'm off to her site....see just did it thinking about her. Crap, I missed out on a bunch of bundles...but I think I have all those colors. It's addicting! Arggg! It's subliminal advertising...Val = Frit.

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That's the frit that a lot of the people onWC posted sample work with isn't it. I loved seeing ways to work with it. Like blending a darker tone into a bead of lighter color.

Tina

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I love my frits. I usually pull it into stringer by itself or cover white with it and pull stringer. I did some last night where I put white over black and then tutti frutti. It turned out pretty, but the bead is not impressive.

I also made some very pretty roses on a bead from tutti frutti wrapped around white. The possibilities are endless.

And I'm serious about the subliminal thing. Every time I see Val in a post, read the word frit, etc. I go to her website to check on her latest specials. It's crazy.

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

]I love my frits.

**snicker** Nicole, have you told them how YOU feel about frit?

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