In which I dig out the acid etch to good effect . Originally posted 27jan10.

Scaramouche or Severus Snape, this fella with the lank black hair and big nose has provided me with hours of beadmaking amusement. Originally posted 06jan10.

Glassact is having a round robin bracelet project featuring charms made with our own lampwork. This post is fifth in the series. Originally posted 15dec09.

Glassact is having a round robin bracelet project featuring charms made with our own lampwork. This post is third in the series. Originally posted 09dec09.

Glassact is having a round robin bracelet project featuring charms made with our own lampwork. This post is fourth in the series. Originally posted 10dec09.

I made this spacerbar charm in green and purple for my own bracelet in the glassact round-robin charm bracelet project. Originally posted 08dec09.

This bead was going along swimmingly for the first half, but when I touched the glass to the release to start the second half, the glass pulled the release right off the mandrel. I was using several-day-old super-easy-releasing release, so this sort thing happens. So, what to do with the bead? W...

If you want to see the latested and greatest, this is the place to click: starting in 2009, I'm putting each year in a true subdirectory of GlassBeads. . Originally posted 07apr09.

Elegant, simple and lush teal pixie focals, including some dottie pixies. . Originally posted 19jan09.

First effort after Doug Remschneider's class to strike beads. . Originally posted 23nov08.

More green and pink in my crisp floral series . Originally posted 30oct08.

Two florals serve as samples for a pair of experimental blue canes . Originally posted 18oct08.

I used an emerald press to make this three-holed floral. . Originally posted (and photographed & made:) 15oct08.

Samples of the crisp petal series. Originally posted 07oct08

Glassbeads_mini —aka minihollows—currently includes mini-stripies and mini-soapbubbles. Updated 27may08.

Collection of 2008 heart bead posts . Updated May08.

assorted 2007 glassbeads, esp. those not in usual categories, including some curliQs , bigholes , raked fire and ice , assorted earthtone , and sculptural heads .

This category gets updated fairly regularly, as I've been making abstracts pretty consistently ever since I discovered thompson enamels. Last update of the index: 12apr08.

Comparisons of 4 blacks —Effetre 064, 066, hades0820 and vetrofond 064 on vetrofond 204, Effetre 208, and Thompson enamel white (9010?). Originally posted 21oct07.

I've updated the dottie page a little, 16mar04; newest post 09oct07

Duplicate? Includes solid dichros , (small designer beads of a small dichro-on-black cylinder cased in clear), jacketed dichro , and big gaudy dichro focals.

A return to an old idea—my earliest hollow style of bead, a plain transparent hollow, aka the `soap bubble', . Originally posted 20jan07

Stripey beads . Now a subindex page including three sets of links— mini-stripeys ; howto pages ; and the original 03 stripeys ; created 29aug06

pixie rounds 14oct06

Three files, originally posted 19dec05 , 29aug06 , and 06oct06 currently comprise the tessellation/twisted-dot subindex, created 29aug06

Satake stripeys , originally posted 07sep06

A variety of floral vase beads Last updated 30aug06.

This post covers a handsome series of stripeys in 5 colorways made (so far as I can tell) in 2003 and as a bonus includes my postcard from that year.

Series of designer beads in soft pastel colors made in bullseye; Conceived as a series, these include mostly curliQs , with a few dotties , and gravity swirls to round out the collection. posts created and uploaded during Jan 2006, of beads made in dec 2005.

An unusual series of beads, inpsired by the roughness and iridescence of ancient roman glass . 29nov05. See also this necklace originally posted 19jul06 which includes similar beads made of plate glass.

Miscellaneous beads not fitting into other categories , including dichro focals and fuglies 08jun05. This howto page for making dichro solids has a nice picture of the finished product. (File created 15may05)

Though more recently made than the antique curliQs, these opaque antiques made with translucent opalino and alabastro glass got posted first, around 07may05

Some so-so beads serve as a springboard for some mild philosophical musings on the state of the bead world. File created 29apr05

New designs incorporating patterned dichro and the hollow technique.

Signature Designs

Fun for the Photographer.

Samples of beadstringing ; last update: 09dec06; 01oct08. Now lists prices of items for sale.

I've created a new directory for bead trades and posted a bunch of beads I've traded for, though not all of them! Yet... Yummy new beads added, 03mar05

Index of links about seed bead coating tests ; a short history of my experiences using thompson enamel 7000/8000 series on bullseye ; a listing of metallic type and increasing content in boro glasses from Jesse Kohl of Northstar; and a mostly self-indulgent list of goodies from 2005 Gathering ...

Glass Bead howtos and technical matters . As currently set up, the howto pages include studio and photography links as well.

I've posted some pages of my various studios, old and new (02mar05), though the pix and even some of the files date back a couple of years (one for a studio that no longer exists!) and ``moved'' one old pic to that directory. There is a little information on how I set up my ventilation, and th...

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