What a gorgeous red! I was so excited to see this one when i pulled it from the kiln :) Metallic bronze! I cannot do this justice with a camera. Imagine my surprise and elation when my new muddy green glass turned into this fabulous color! I may never leave the studio again.
The last two inches of the Frosty Blue I won at Frantz last year. I have found a replacement made by CIM glass so I suppose it was okay to finish it off at last...
Ahh Silver Cinnamon~ With a name like that how could anyone resist? It sounds warm and rich and the color that I got out of it certainly follows that line of thinking. Yum!!!
A big handful of my Sunday Focal making craziness :)

What is a focal? Does size matter? I think it is a matter of perspective a 5' 3" woman would want a smaller focal than say a 6'2" man. In reality I believe a focal is any bead with enough "presence" to be used alone. A focal doesn't have to be huge it just has to be more.

I spent all of last Sunday (The day I usually take off :) making Focal beads. It was liberating and I had a blast. I usually make small beads in sets. Making a bunch of focals was new and I experimented A LOT :) I love the results, some of them a bit too much and they will be hard to part with I can tell, darn it... I am so infatuated with some of the colors I purchased at Frantz I have gone beyond being a glass nerd and entered the realm of glass freak. Yep full blown glass addiction. My daughter would probably ask for an intervention if she knew what that meant :)

Off to melt something...

my precious...

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