Newbies for the Bead and Button show ;-D

Here's a couple more marbles to add to the pile...

No blue in this marble!

Gotta' love that boro!

Bonzai Pipeline Marble

Most Excellent Indeed....

...Woot! How fun. Lisa Atchison and I

had our first weekend of torching and

lapidary play this weekend.
This is my first attempt and is not

finished. I will add detail to this one

and be sure and post the finished bead.

NOW....go over there ------>

and scroll down and see Lisa's

on her blog. They are so over the

top, but who would expect less

from my Lisa ;-D

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????

Purple Luster and Sparklies

Just started playing with Purple Luster

and have fallen head over heels in love with it.

Also, playing with an encasing technique that

shows much promise for me.

Here's two big honkers!

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.

Biggun'

I made a big giant fish. I've caught bluegill this big and bragged about it...tee hee.

Silvered Glass

Ok, now this is getting tricky. A whole new beast to me. Silvered glass can leave wonderful iridescent trails and blooming colors from within your bead or chasing across the surface. It's like trying to harness lightning....ohh, but so fun!

Flowers in the Surf

Have you ever seen bright flowers floating in the surf? I saw it in Hawaii one time and this bead reminds me of that site.