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Ok. WOW!!! These are all just spectacular. I love them all, can't even pick a favorite. I love that look of the frit having been pulled so it looks like a fern leaf. I haven't quite figured out how to do that yet but at least I did learn to do the twists! Great job Dawn!

Cheryl

Dawn >^..^< wrote:

Mmmmmmmm Harvest is heaven!!

Dawn -- I was just on the phone with my friend Carol Hopkins (Salt Lake City) while I was laying out in the sun, and she told me, unsolicited, about how great the beads were that she got from you!! GURL -- she would know! She has boxes and boxes of lampwork and she really likes the work that YOU do -- kudos to you!!!

Becki

Thanks Cheryl! That technique is called raking. I just heat the surface of the bead and pull the very tip of my tungsten pick through it. Some people can rake all the way around the bead at once, but I spot heat and pull a section at a time so I don't pull the bead out of shape. Oh, and if you don't have a tungsten pick, you can do the same thing with a cold stringer. Try it! It's fun!

Thanks Kandice!!! Still waiting for it to feel like fall down here.

Thanks Becki! Carol is such a sweetheart! She bought some beads from me way back when I was doing the polymer clay. Then, she just recently found me again and got a real nice set of glass beads. It was like a happy little reunion.

She's right, it's fun and addictive, and you can get so many effects with it! Definitely worth mastering.

Carol is a doll and a half, and she knows lampwork better than most lampworkers I know! Yours is pure joy (sighing, wishing I was working this week so I could justify bidding on some of yours) How is she doing? I haven't talked to her for a while.

LOL!!....I must be a picky bitch too because Colorblast wasn't my favorite set either. I really liked the test bead for that set, but it looked much different in a "group setting".

Thanks Kalera! It's been a while since I've corresponded with Carol, but she seemed just as sweet and happy as ever. I'm afraid I may have "misplaced" a few customers when I made the transition from clay to glass because I changed my business name from Heartstrings Clay Creations to Art Insomnia. Also, I used to sell on JustBeads and when I switched to glass I went over to ebay. It's always nice to reunite with customers from my "clay days".

I really like the pinky-red, but in juxtaposition with the white and the aqua it feels a little too much like those Italian clown-vomit lightshades they hang in Starbucks' these days.