This mouse is in one of my favourite colour schemes and features a shampoo glass bead that I likely made years—possibly decades—ago. (I didn't realize the necklace I was thinking of dated back all the way to 2008 until I looked it up—has it really been that long...? At any rate, I'm pretty sure this bead predates that necklace, I have not run my lead annealing schedule in a long, long, long time.) As with the others in the series, the found peyote tube stitched of delicas drove the colour scheme.

lampwork bead, czech lead ‘shampoo’ glass; found peyote stitched tubes of delicas; other seed, czech, lampwork & basemetal beads, probably strung on beadalon; photographed 15jun2021, sony ILCE-7C, sony 90mm macro, f/2.8, ev +1.0, 1/100s, ISO 1000; cropped, lightened; scaled to 4000 pixels in gimp (click for the sharp full size version)

(As it happens, I think this combo, the soft pink with the acid green is the least successful of the unknown beader's combos. There's no reason why this should be so—certainly the soft, translucent pink is roughly similar to the lustre on the transparent lime, and of course the beads are exactly the same size, so the artist really only shifted the saturation, from the high-tint pink to the brighter acid green.

Perhaps the problem is that, since they chose a striping scheme, there should've been more contrast; I personally would've made 1 stripe of each color, perhaps blending a bit in the centre, to create more of a contrast.

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