Lisa Atchison - Change of Seasons

One of my true joys this summer has been being able to torch often with Lisa Atchison. If you have never seen one of her beads in person...they are sheer perfection.

Me being a person that ONLY LOVES summer, I can actually appreciate the change of seasons thru Lisa's beads. Follow her blog here and be sure to watch her Etsy store...they go quick...grab them while you can ;-D

http://touchofglassdesigns.blogspot.com/

When looking into the sky and seeing the constellations,

you know that the seasons are about to change.

Here's Gemini:

Spring - Little Crocus popping thru the spring blades

Summer - Hot bubble from the ocean...love it!

Blazing Hot Fall Colors

Harvest Moon: How Romantic

Winter White - I could even stand winter

if it were this beautiful ;-D

New stoppers

Not being one to toot my own horn much..

tooot toooot....I dig these!!!

Sorry, I just had to....just a little, forgive me ;-D

3 Stoppers

Vortex Stopper

Flower Stopper

Wedding stopper

Wine Stopper

This is my first of many attempts at a wine bottle stopper. How fun!!!

Another MIB and some shells

Had to try another fumed marble and

then practice some shells.

Got a new experimental color peachy purple...

oh YUMMMMM

Marble:

Shells:

Playing with fuming

Tried my first fumed marble...another in the kiln now.

How fun. I think I might have distracted this one with dichro,

but what isn't better with dichro, right?
View one:

View two:

Happy Dancin'...

The great news is once you get the sweet spot on one of the raku, chalcedony types glass....you got it on all or many of them. Here's my happy harvest.

Here's the group shot for those who

don't want to suffer thru each individual pic.

Chalcedony with frit:

Chalcedony with green sparklies:
Raku with frit:

Straight Chalcedony:


Straight Magic:
Magic with frit:
Multi with frit:

Straight Multi:

Ya' know...I've been thinkin......

Last night, I finally got the sweet spot on the Chalcedony and wondered...hmmm...is that the same sweet spot for Raku and Iris Green???? Well, guess what...it is!!! Here are the results of an experiments. 3 Beads...on of each color worked the same way.

Left:Chalcedony

Middle: Iris Green

Right: Raku

Chalcedony Bead:

Iris Green Bead:
Raku Bead:
Just an odd pretty -

Iris Green with Fuscia Frit

Making friends with....

Chalcedony. We're starting to see things

the same way...just a bit ;-D

Northern Lights:
Strange little twisting bead...

not sure what's up with this one????