Give Away at Gaffergirls Blog

Wow, three of my favorite things all together in once spot (free stuff, Melanie Melaine Moertel and Gaffer Glass).

The GafferGirls are having a give away on their blog. Win this cute Melaine Moertel bead by posting a comment on their blog. The blog is http://www.gaffergirls.com. Direct link here.

If you let them know who sent you (ie me, Lara Lutrick), I can be given more chances to win. If you let your friends know who sent them, you can get more chances to win.

See their blog for more information.

Remember comments go on their blog to win the bead.

NEW GLASS COLOR

I had the pleasure of opening up a new box of glass this week from Gaffer Glass USA. This special box arrived decorated with hearts and stars and sweet words from Hallynd, Jessica and Lacey. Thanks gals, you made my day. Inside the box was some Blue Chalcedony (G1095) rods and frit. It is a blue version of their normal Chalcedony, which has a red base.

This color also does the breaking up to form little cell-like decorations on the glass (this is my favorite part). I got some great blues, greens and purples from this glass.
These quick snapshots are my first beads (most of which will be heading back to Gaffer Glass USA). Like the original, the colors sometimes appear brighter when photographed.

Chalcedony Again

I'm still having lot of fun with this glass. I just wanted to show a set I made with Gaffer Black, Chalcedony and Clear.

Chalcedony - New Glass WOO HOO

I wanted to post a picture of the bead made of the glass mentioned below. This is Chalcedony, G109. It is very similar to Raku (R108), which I can not get to do anything for me. (I also can't get color with TerraNova, Khaos, or Luna2). I get tan and blah. Not with this one. I get reds, purples, pinks, oranges, blues and greens. This was the one with the best colors. Chalcedony on Black.

GAFFER GOODNESS

Today I went to Gaffer Glass in Kent for Fire and Rain event (my local ISGB chapter). This glass is 96 COE and has great colors. It is made in New Zealand and is mostly used for glass blowing (vessels, ornaments, etc). I can not say enough wonderful things about the staff in Kent. They are very nice and so helpful each time I'm there.

I really like their glass, it is helpful that it is the closest glass store to my home.

(These earrings are made of Gaffer and are available at my 1000Markets site)

I like the transparent colors a lot, but mostly the lighter colors. Because their colors are used to do glassblowing and are very dense (so that when you blow them thin, the colors stays). Some of the colors you have to pull into a stringer to use as they are so dense. They are making more and more colors for the lampworker and coming out with new colors all the time. I got a new color today that they just got in. It is Chalcedony, it is supposed to be like Raku. Hope I can get it to work, I'm not so good with Raku.

As beautiful as the transparents are, I mostly like to use their opaques. I especially like Taxi Cab Yellow (not the right name, it is orange), Chartreuse, and Robin's Egg Blue (see the photo above).

Their veiled colors are great as well.