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I was looking at Helen's beads

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and remembering the Fonda/Clark that Beki Haley had up last week (that Pat Hauge beat me out of, the bitch, LOL). And I wanted to say to you all that I love sculptural flower beads. I know, some are saying, hey, gee whiz, Becki likes flower beads? Like that is NEWS and she doesn't bother us with this information on a regular basis? LOL. I love that Fonda/Clark bead because you can put pearl stamens through the middle of it and make it really look like a flower. Ginger Sanders make sculptural flowers like this also, but I won't buy any more of her beads, because they break. However, the Fonda/Clark version is exactly like Ginger's, but made of a different glass that doesn't break as easily. I realize that all glass is likely to break, especially when stretched out in thin shapes like that. I dropped a light bulb in the bathroom sink last night and it sure as hell broke, LOL.

What I am trying to say is a) I have seen other lampworkers make this elongated type of flower bead with the hole in the middle, so you can bead through it, and I don't think this is a proprietary design (could be wrong about this but I doubt it, it is found in nature) and b) I would love to buy some of these if others would be interested in making them. I love turning the glass flowers into "real" flowers with beaded stamens. The look is just awesome, and one alone as a centerpiece makes a very stunning necklace.

I think like a jewelry-maker, not like a bead-maker, so forgive me please for always asking for you all to make the things that I see in my head (like highly decorated hearts, which I still lust after). I can't make them myself.

Also, I want to say that Fonda/Clark bead was well worth a $57 price tag, in my mind. I said eariler that I thought $49 was too high a starting price for a smallish centerpiece bead and again -- I am thinking like a jewelry-maker, not a bead-maker. I have no doubt it takes eons to make some of those beads and your time is well worth it. But unless I am collecting beads or just buying an expensive pretty for the joy of having it, which I don't do but others do, then I intend to make jewelry out of it. And I would imagine that the majority of bead-makers are creating for those who make jewelry, not just the collectors. I can't have a $50 centerpiece bead without making a $200 necklace out of it. I put other, pretty, expensive beads with it like handmade silver and carved stones, the best I can get. So if I start with a $50 bead in the center, I have to have a $200 necklace when I am done. Some $50 don't look fancy enough, to me, to be a $200 necklace. I am only thinking like a jewelry-maker. It is all I know.

That Fonda/Clark bead was well worth $57. I would have paid $75 or $80 for it (and if I had, Pat Hauge would not own it now, LOL)! Because that was a truely elegant bead, and would have made an expensive necklace. Or at least, it would when I am done with it.

OK I'm done now.

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

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I love you Becki!!!!! I had an idea while watching Leah yesterday. I need some time to work on it, but you just gave me the "but what would you DO with it???" nudge that I needed. More soon.

Oh, but a question......what approximate size would you want to work with?

KarenK

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Karen_AZ

Example: The necklace with the fuschia flowers close to the bottom of the page (these were Ginger Sander's beads that I used for this necklace)

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Also, to Harry. See the piece at the top, the flowers with beads in the center, centered on a jade leaf? I see a profusion of flowers coming through the center hole of a Paua or Abalone shell, making the centerpiece for a stunning, feminine necklace. Can you see that?

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

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BeckiBead

BIG girlfriend. All good things come in BIG. 1", 1-1/2", 2". Not sure if

2-1/2" is too big or not. Would have to see one.

I am SO glad you posted on this thread. I meant to tell you earlier that every single lampworker whose flowered work I have loved, except for Mavis, studied with Kim and Leah or with Leah. Cousette was the first, and while she couldn't finish her ends worth a damn, the girl could make flowers. I loved them so much. So, I am personally extremely excited to see what you come up with following this class!

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

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BeckiBead

And, on the "do you remember" maudlin scale, do you remember when we met at the IBS show? The other vendors kept looking at us because we were loud and hugging and CRYING when we met.

I love you too, babygirl. Always have.

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

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BeckiBead

And also, on the same page, the necklace at the bottom was a Ginger bead with a flower and hummer, which I put pearl stamens through the center. Love it.

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

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And, one more post from me, here is the Fonda/ Clark bead to which I refer. It is abolutely perfect, in both color and composition.

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Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

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i saw some the other day, and for the life of me, i can't find them again. they weren't listed as flowers, but they looked like flowers. long tubes with large fluted ends.

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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.combuybeads (BeckiBead) :

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yep - those were the kind i was thinking of. and i would have sworn i saw some on JustBeads. but now i can't find them!

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vj

WOW Becki Those are gorgeous. I love the long pink flowers.

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Do you think it was one of Bettina's auctions? She has a lot of vintage flowers up and I think I've drooled over some that are like Becki's dream flowers.

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Margie

I fell really good right now! I won one of Beki's auctions with a similar Fonda/Clark bead in the kit. And I got everything for $55. I still have to assemble it but it's so pretty I enjoy just looking at it in the box!

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And, one more post from me, here is the Fonda/ Clark bead to which I refer. It is abolutely perfect, in both color and composition.

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Becki -- those would not be considerably difficult -- they use pretty much the same technique as my seafans most likely (see the pretty aqua one I have up this week... for example)...

Cheryl last semester of lawschool! yipee! DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass

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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Margie :

]Do you think it was one of Bettina's auctions? She has a lot of ]vintage flowers up and I think I've drooled over some that are like ]Becki's dream flowers.

i don't think so... i'm just completely "senior" at the moment. i would have sworn i'd bookmarked them, because i thought at the time of Becki.

but these were handmade lampwork - BIG suckers!

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vj

VJ -- those are probably Ginger's flowers on Justbeads. That is where she was selling last time I looked. They are made of pyrex, and they break easily.

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

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BeckiBead

VJ -- exactly right, those are Joan Eckard's , and they are very very small, LOL. About the size of czech flowers, or smaller. I was the first person to carry Joan's beads at a bead show (thanks to Karen). She makes great stuff.

Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

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BeckiBead

I loved making my sculptural flowers. Mine had holes through the middle and I was wondering how anyone would like that. Making some stamens out of beads sounds wonderful.

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> > and remembering the Fonda/Clark that Beki Haley had up last week (that Pat > Hauge beat me out of, the bitch, LOL). And I wanted to say to you all that I > love sculptural flower beads. I know, some are saying, hey, gee whiz, Becki > likes flower beads? Like that is NEWS and she doesn't bother us with this > information on a regular basis? LOL. >

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starlia

I do like those beads. Yummy!

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starlia

How can someone make flowers that small? All mine are huge! I just finished an encased floral, I know not my style, but it turned out huge too. :-(

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starlia

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.combuybeads (BeckiBead) :

]They are made of pyrex, and they break easily.

okay - i thought pyrex was the HARD stuff??????? now i'm confused again!!!

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