I've had a great week at the torch. Finally feeling like I never stopped for the summer. Still working on things I have made before but using some new to me colors and experimenting a little bit. Made lots of leaves, some roses and a couple other flowers. All pictured below.
First are the leaves - and lots of them and more coming. What will I do with all of them ? I have no idea. lol ! Maybe a necklace is in order ?
This second set is all the flowers as of today. There are more but they are still in the kiln. I had alot of fun making these. They are done three different ways. The dark red rose and dark yellow rose on the left, closest to the dime, are done with the mandrel coming up thru the middle of the flower. The Yellow rose all the way to the right is done with a base underneath it with the mandrel hole running east to west. The top yellow flower with points on the tips, also done with a base underneath with mandrel holes running east to west. And the last yellow flower, at the bottom, was made on the end of the mandrel and has no hole that runs all the way through. There is one more way I can think of that these can be done and that is off mandrel which I want to try as well. :) Oh and did ya guess, yellow is one of my most favorite colors. ! lol !
I also made some other beads but just not worthy of posting them. lol ! Always a learning experience every time I sit down to melt glass.
This next bead I made following a tut in the Tonbo Dama book. I made this bead long ago once and remembered how much I loved it so wanted to revisit it. In the tutorial, it says to encase it and I didn't. It would of looked better had I encased it. Oh well, live and learn !
Time to get busy and get some work done. Thanks so much for coming by and visiting. I hope you come back again very soon. :) Please leave a comment and let me know what you think.
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