Lampwork glass beads

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The florals here were made using vetrofond black, encased with vetrofond clear, then decorated with white dots and then vetrofond odd lot poppy dots, plunged and poked to make flowers. The rounds are plain poppy. Poppy is an odd lot that is apparantly becoming quite scarce now and becoming hoarded. I've heard some people love it and some hate it. The pinks you can get out of it are so pretty but hard to get. It seems the trick is to work it cooler to get more pinks out of it.


Another new colour I got, vetrofond odd seashell swirl. I used heliotrope frit on it and encased with vetrofond clear for the big rounds. The little rounds are the seashell swirl all on its own. For the shells, I started with an effetre light purple base, covered it with the seashell swirl, and then some heliotrope frit. Frits apparantly do neat things on seashell swirl. They definitely did here. There is some colour separation that almost gives a mottled sort of look.