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????

Chalcedony Play

Here are my first attempts at Chacedony:

First Chalcedony Swipe:

Chalcedony meets purple:

Soup Bead...it's got it all going on:

Gnarly Dude and Chickie Poo

This is how my crazy inspiration works...

gnarly organic pot bellied to

oooooh sweet pretty in 60 seconds flat ;-D

Gathering of Shells

The Gathering push is on. Today is packing day and then back to shells. Here are my shells from yesterday. Yes, the on in the front with the flowers on it is mine to go with my new "hippie" shirt ;-D

In love with the glass - Ga Spring Luster!!!

Made some shells from Spring Luster

and some from Amazon Canyon...

definitely my favs...YUMMY!

Sunday Shells

These are my Sunday shells. One little shy guy was

left hiding on my table and

missed the photo opp. ;-D

Guess what...more shells

Here's a few favs:

Beach combing again...

Various shells from the studio shores:

Coupla Focals

I had to make a soft glass shell and while I had the 96 COE out, I had to make a couple focal beads. I LOVE IRIS GREEN!!!

Shells, shells and more shells

I've had more fun blowing shells on a blow pipe. I just LOVE boro!!!!

4th of July was spent making shells. Here's the days' harvest.

Detail shots comin' right up....

Trip to Morocco..come along?

My Color Challenge for Artists group is going on a mental journey this week. We are going to Morocco.

Here's our inspiration photo.

Luscious silks, rich tapestries,

Tone on tone elegance...ooooh ahhh.

Here's my first try at it with the pillows

in the bottom right as my inspiration.

Now I started to play with colors

that I think of when I think of Morocco.

I am pleased with the results and am still playing

with the direction these are taking.

Last beads of May....

...where did it go.

Funky Flowers

Lime and Dichro..who'd thunk it?

Poppies and Cream

Poppies and Purple...go figure

Saturday's Harvest

I'm still playing with silvered glass and having so much fun. I love it with the organics. Here's my kiln harvest from Saturday.

Peacock Rock

Emerald Rock

Moonstone

At the end of the day, I thought, heck...

I'll just do something wild that will NEVER to together.

When will I learn...Lovin' this

Lime Rock

Bead of the Day - Tapestry:

Newbies

I'm still playing with silvered glass and lovin' it.

This one is another in the abalone series:

Garnet Rock:

This glass is a CIM called Ghee. If you work it hot enough, you get this delish butterscotch color.

This one wants to be called Storyteller Rock for some reason. There all kinds of stories in this bead.

Playin' catch up...

Here's a couple beadies that I picked up at Lisa's yesterday on our wonderful torch day!

This one reminded me of crab cakes for some reason:

Red Sea Surf: the ivory on this one is textured and looks like rolling surf.

Fun with Silvered Glass

Last night, I made one of the most fun beads I've made in a long time. I took silvered glass and tried to imitate abalone. DANG...I got close. It's so sparklie and luminescent IRL. Diggin' the silvered glass ;-D

This one is just an organic southwest beadie. Fun but just a bead after that one above.

First beadies from my new studio!

A wild variety of stuffin' came from my first go back at the torch.

Rocks:(Guess it was an "M" thing)

Mocha Rock

Maui Rock

Magnolia

Urn...simply urn

Color Challenge of the week. Racing!

Black, White and your favorite color: