This pretty little mouse is built around the floral focal's colour scheme of turquoise, purple and yellow—not a combo I typically do, and in fact the bead was made by someone else, probably Cindi B. I find the purple petals particularly enticing; that rich hue actually can be rather challenging to make, so much so, in fact, the matching seed beads in the lower tail are dyed.

dead mouse with designer sized focal, probably by Cindi B, czech glass, seed beads, strung on beadalon, 2024; photographed 22sep24, sony ILCE-7C, sony 90mm macro, f/2.8 1/500s, ev +1.7, WB: cloudy; cropped, lightened, and scaled in gimp

Because I find it awkward sticking in disclaimers to ‘Did you make this yourself?’^[1] I resisted using this bead as a focal for a long time, despite the interesting colour scheme, but as f2tY was coming to visit and I figured would want some mini-mice for omiyage, I figured, oh, what the heck; I won't be around and therefore won't have to make disclaimers.

As it happens, f2 claimed the mouse for personal use:) So I'm really glad I made it, since I failed to repair either of the prior ones that had broken.^[2]

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