It feels like Show and Tell time

[dichro_baby]

Oh, Wow, wow, wow!

I go away for a couple of days and get to come back to even MORE photos of beautiful beads!

Everyone's work is lovely, each is so unique and beautiful. I love to see how our personalities come out in our glass, how two people can take the same glass and come up with something completely different. I'm getting totally spoiled on photos here, everyone will have to keep posting so I don't go through picture withdrawals!

Charity

Oh, PS Margi,

I LOVE your necklace! It's not too big at ALL, and I love the colors... so earthy!

[dlbk]

LOVE the RF and your beads!! A perfect Autumn tribute!

Deb

[margi]

Donna--What a gourgeous presentation--the photos, the poems, and the lovely, lovely beads! Are they fumed, reduced, a mix? Such...tender...colors...

Charity, babe, thanks for the praise. That necklace goes on evolving--I've redone all the hanging things to get them more "in balance," and have now decided that I need to make it a multi-strand necklace, with handmade beads on the upper part too. So it is still a work in progress--for a very special secret...hmnnn...project? Occasion? Event? Don't know how to describe it, but you'll find out eventually...

More beads, guys and ladies! Poetry too! And artful photography! I MAY have another pretty cool pic to post later tonight if I can FIND the floppy disk it's stored on...

Margi, the queen of Disorder-Disorder...

[donner]

some holiday favorites..the yellow bead says "Boo!!" and the black bead has green and yellow eyeballs staring out at you. scary stuff, I tell ya!




donner

[diane333]

Please tell me something about EDP...what and how it is used...

Thanks!
Diane
in Tennessee

[DonnaBee_]

Thank you so very much, everyone who has complimented my beads.

I am planning to make a post commenting on everyone's show n tells here, because I think this is a wonderful thread and I have been enjoying it so much!

Margi, thank you for asking. The beads are gold fumed on Moretti glass. Some are fumed with 24K gold, and some are fumed with 18K white gold which contains 15 percent palladium. They were all done in a neutral flame, maybe slightly oxidizing.

I enjoyed doing a fall trubute, I gathered the leaves and berries from my yard, and really just enjoyed the whole experience. I have been very melancholy and moody this particular fall season, and making the beads and photo to go with that poem were very healing.

The beads are being sent to another beadmaker who I love to pieces, and who I am doing a trade with.

(I thought I should add to this.... when I do this, I have a fan above my torch which pulls 2650 CFM and also I have a respirator on. Also, My garage door and two windows are open, no one else is around at the time, the garage is detached and far from my house. I really think all these things are important. Palladium fumes are very dangerous, moreso than gold and silver. Am I actually fuming the palladium? I honestly don't know, but from the colors on the glass, I think some is depositing, and you should see my torch flame when I am doing it, it turns bright green!)

[DonnaBee_]

Here is a closer look at the white gold fumed onto Rubino and Pale Aqua.

(My last pics I promise! I don't want to be a thread hog, but I only make beads about once per month, and I appreciate you all having a look at my work and letting me get the most mileage I can out of this set of beads!





(Natural daylight photos, not enhanced)

Me at Glass Artists.org

[margi]

Those fumed beads ARE very beautiful, Donna. Also all those fun ones, Donner!

Here are a couple more pix. One of these beads I like for its simplicity, and the other for its complexity. The second bead has a layer of dichro inside, and lots of silver outside, so in good light you can see through the multi-colored "windows" into the dichro core. It was sort of inspired by a Michael Barley bead I bought at the Gathering:

http://www.petemacko.org/PicORama/Pi...m=2&p=509&a=35

Now, this one is a test. Can you tell what sort of animal is wearing my necklace?

http://www.petemacko.org/PicORama/Pi...m=2&p=510&a=35

How do I bypass posting the addresses of these pictures, and get the pictures themselves to post? I know I've read how to do this, but I've forgotten--and I'm sick today and have no energy to try to figure it out...

Margi

[dichro_baby]

Aw, Margi...

I'm sorry to hear you're sick. Your beads are VERY nice, though! I especially like the one on the right, you pick such lovely colors.

To post a picture, click the "image" tab in the UBB code box (next to the font colors and instant graemlins) and it will open up a pop up window where you can copy and paste the URL for your picture. (The URL should start with http://) I usually just keep a second window open for the hosting website and cut and paste directly from there. Once you enter the URL, jut click okay and the text should pop up in the post you were typing. When you are done with your post, go to preview it and the photos should be with the text. The hosting website I use offers several URLs for each image, and sometimes I have to try a couple different ones before the image will appear. If there is a URL that is specifically designated for forums and/or E-Z Boards, this is probably the one you're looking for.

Good luck, and I hope to see more of your beautiful pics soon!

Charity

PS... Is the animal a llama?

[margi]

Thanks Charity--and here we both are, burning the midnight oil again. But that's all it IS right now--midnight. Where are all the other happy beaders?

My pix are hosted on a site that Sarakay and her BF put together for me. That's why the quality of the images is so nice, compared to those kind of mediocre free hosting sites. I'll have to experiment with posting the pix directly when I'm feeling better. Tonight I'm just having a sick night. I've EARNED IT!

Thanks too for the compliments. I'm close to burn-out now, after showing so so so so so so SO much in the past couple of months (years!), so I need all the strokes I can get. I'm going to try a digital pic of that bead on the right tomorrow, as the scan doesn't really do it justice, and I think it could use some sunlight on it.

Aw, the animal test really wasn't hard after all, was it? There's a woman who brings three llamas to some of our local events, and they were "parked" right by my booth for awhile yesterday, and I kept looking at them, and at that necklace, and finally I couldn't resist asking if one of the three might be nice enough to let me decorate it and then take some pictures. None of the pix turned out wonderfully well, but this one with the "beard" was kind of a hoot I thought. There's an awful lot of neck on a llama to play with. Might be fun to place about ten of my necklaces of varying lengths from top to bottom on a llama's neck...(since there aren't any giraffes around here, that I know of.)

Come on folks, let's keep this thread alive. Post more pictures! It's so uplifting to see them--can remind us that through all our trials and tribulations with equipment and brands of glass and ventilation and bead-releases and kiln malfunctions, etc., that our bottom-line objective is to produce unique and pretty things!

Margi