New Love - Reichenbach Multicolor Dark

I have been playing with a new color (at least to me) Reichenbach Multicolor Dark. I finally have enough photos to share. I have been using 96 COE, I think it also comes as 104 COE. I'm having so much fun with it.

It is easy to comapre to Gaffer Chalcedony and Blue Chalcedony as it is also a striking glass that turns rainbow colors. Striking means that the colors change depending on the length of time in the flame. It is different than Chalcedony, but just as cool to use. See a picture with both colors below.

What I really like about this color is that it is very easy to strike and it gets a lot of blues and purples (purple being my favorite color). Seen here on Olive. Listed on Etsy here.

As you can see in this photo of a bead with Chalcedony in the center and Multicolor Dark on the ends, the Mulicolor does not get the crackling (where it looks broken up). I like this crackling and it is one of my favorite things about Chalcedony, but sometimes you don't want that.

This color turns green and then turquoise the more you work with it. These beads were worked a long time and the second one worked very hot for a long time and it is quite turquoise. I was surprised and pleased with the color. Both of these have Iris Orange (aka Raku) stringer designs.

Jury Duty

So I get to make beads once a week and I have jury duty tomorrow, on my day off work. Here's hoping I get to go home early, but if not, I'm happy to do me civic duty. I was on a jury several years ago and it was for a drunk driving. Interesting experience, not what I would call fun, but not horrible like some people say it is.

Did you know there was a jury duty stamp put out a few years ago? I don't rember this, maybe it wasn't too popular. I like the colors, perhaps I will get some bead color ideas.

HALLOWEEN SALE

This week is Halloween and as mentioned previously on this blog it is one of my favorite holidays to make beads for. This week I have all my Halloween themed beads on Art Fire and Etsy ON SALE for 20% off.

NEW LISTINGS - JEWELRY

I have not listed any jewelry for a while as I had everything stored up for the Farmer's Market. I have taken pictures and started listed some of that jewelry. The earrings above are the favorite ones I made for the Farmer's Market. I was surprised they didn't sell as they are super adorable. These are called "bird bath."

This is the favorite necklace I put together with a handmade lampwork bead and vintage enamaled chain.

Click on the pictures to be taken to the item for sale.

MORE BLUE CHALCEDONY

I've been playing with the new Gaffer color: Blue Chalcedony (G1095). At first I wasn't sure if I liked it, but I decided I do. I LOVE IT. I like the blue undertones instead of the red of regular G109.
This is the first bead I made with it. I didn't get a lot of different colors in it and no crackling (what looks like small lines and circles). I like it though. Just a pretty blue. I mentioned somewhere that one thing I really like is the dark ends that you can get when using gravity to shape the bead. I first noticed it in this bead. You can see this bead has dark navy ends, almost black.
In this bead I didn't get a lot of crackle (some at the bottom), but I got some great purples.

This bead is the same glass, really, but look at the difference. I really worked on this bead long and lots of marvering to get the colors to pop and to get the crackle (didn't get much). It has some very pretty deep colors.

Finally this heart bead got a lot of crackle effect and the colors just popped.