I would be ahppy to tumble you a new bathroom. :) How about some nice stained glass tumbled and you could do a mosaic on one of the walls and drape a fishnet from one corner to the next and we will work on filling it with Paua? :))
Harry New Zealand Paua Shell at
Very good idea! I think I will try and do some for our bathroom today.... if I have some shells to do it with. lol
Harry New Zealand Paua Shell at
It is beach glass that I tumbled. If my Paua gets that clear I am out of buisness. lol
Harry New Zealand Paua Shell at
Thank you... can I send you a few pieces? I don't mind shipping to NZ, as I do it all the time and plus get stuff from there. :)
Harry New Zealand Paua Shell at
Ooopsss... which version would you like? The drilled or un-drilled?
Harry New Zealand Paua Shell at
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Harry :
]I am not sure what aqua looks like. I am color blind so I might have a problem.
eeep! i never thought of that when i packed that box!!!!!
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
I don't know what I would do without the help of others. Thank you. I know I did a few shapes in Paua and when I tumbled it... the shape changed greatly and the holes in them got really big. I think this may also be the case with beach glass and I will try some in one of my smaller tumblers first before I do a big load and have them destroyed... but then again... if the holes get big enough I could always call them life perservers! :) Thank you so much.
Harry New Zealand Paua Shell at
LOL... It's totally OK. I can see colors, but I can't tell you what they are. Red and green is my biggest problem, because I can look at them and they change constanly. Plus being color blind has some advantages... in the Spring most people look into a grove of trees and just see green. I see every color under the rainbow. :) The fall of the year for me is great. I can't explain it, but it is really beautiful and in the winter when I look at trees I don't see brown as most people do... I see the bark as black and the rest of the tree is bright to me, but I hate that they don't have leaves.
Harry New Zealand Paua Shell at
Badly, very, very badly.
I'll scan some tonight and e-mail you the pics.
Linda2
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Linda2" :
]I'll scan some tonight and e-mail you the pics.
thank you!
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Harry :
]LOL... It's totally OK. I can see colors, but I can't tell you what they are.
**grin** okay - if you say so. [crossing fingers]----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
yep..i won't be home to scan/photo it, until friday, but i will then.
elgee
Harry: Just a little info on your "color blindness". It sounds as if you are color deficient...as am I. You can see color, but the place in your brain that "remembers it" is defective (sorry) and can't remember the color, and therefor can't call it by name when it sees it again. My dad was completely color blind, black, white and gray only. I inherited the deficiency from him, (I think...I have to check the lineage) but it is rare for a woman to be colorblind...usually color deficient.
Just fyi.
Hi Harry: It's me, Lisa...elgee on the ng.
If you have some prices on the seaglass, I'd love to get some. Also, you had asked if seaglass can be too big, for jewelry I would say no larger than 1.5 inches square.
Also, I would love colors. As with you, I am color deficient (see my post to the group) so anything with color is fine. My partner will tell me what color it is.
Let me know.
Harry New Zealand Paua Shell at
That could be it... because I know it's a color I just don't know what color. lol Sounds crzy doesn't it? It is very rare for women to be color blind and I do feel sorry for those who are. getting clothing items to match has to be a horror. Me... I just put on what I grab first. lol
Harry
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I just posted some sea glass on Ebay to try and keep down the fighting over it. lol I am going to try and get many different colored glass and tumble that when I pull my Paua out of my new tumbler. The sea - beach glass I will be selling wil be rather inexpesive as if I can find the glass.. the cost will be way down, if not I will have to try and figure out what it cost me to do it and go from there. The grits will be the biggest cost item. It takes a pound per load x 4 loads to do 1 batch in my new tumbler... which is a 12 Pound Behemoth!! and I love it! :)
Harry
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Thank you.... I did all the drilling in water.. the shells and glass, because mostly I was scared... and 2nd because I didn't want to smell the shells or take a chance on the glass breaking and putting my eye out. But mostly.. because I was scared. lol
Harry
Paua mosaic. *thats* what you do with the pieces that dont survive the drilling process... ooohhhh yes! Diana
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