A few from last year that I didn't get posted.

Well I have lots of beads to put up so I guess I'll go in order of when I did them.  First up is what "Spotlight on Silver" Vol. 2 calls the Salmon Egg Bead.  I used silver foil, black, white and a transparent purple - can't remember which one I used but I think it was ink blue?  This was pretty fun to make.

Now for the next ones, I can't find any notes but I made these the same day as I made the  bead above.  I know I was playing around with silver foil and frit this day so I'm guessing these next two are made with reactive frit and I was trying them on different bases to see what would happen.

I love making these beads - creating patterns with two or three simple colors.  This was  a day I went to the torch with no plan and just created what I felt like making at that moment.

 

Then I decided to try this technique I saw in a book on floral beads.  I don't usually make many floral beads but these were easy - but they sure took a long time to make.  Let me know if you like them enough for me to keep making these in the future.  I just used whatever color was laying around on my work space so the color options are limitless really for these.

I'm working on a style of bead that I kind of hope will be my own - I haven't really seen it out there yet so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I think I'm going to call these my "Window Beads" and here is one I made with colors that were just laying around.  Not my best window bead but you get the idea.  I have more window beads made that I haven't posted yet but I suppose I should post them all together sometime.

These are from another session and I was trying out some blues and greens and a pink and green that I thought might look nice together. No notes on these either but I know the greens are all CIM and the blue is Moretti Lt. Sky Blue.  The pink I am fairly certain is veiled Rubino. 

Now for my last set of beads that I made in 2010.  I had a fun time with more techniques from "Spotlight on Silver" Vol. 2 and here are those beads:

 

This bead has a black base, rolled in silver foil (not melted in yet), spiral of lt. turquoise and then all melted in.  Fins of copper green are added then suspended threads of EDP all melted in and shaped.  Then I did one final heat to glow to help with the EDP.  Pretty cool bead.  This is the "Shibori" style bead from "Spotlight on Silver" vol. 2 page. 8.

See page 9, "Sandstone with Sparkle" in "Spotlight on Silver" vol 2.  The transparent I used in this bead from left to right are Great Bludini-2, light aqua, pink champagne (turned amber), light emeralt and simply berry.

These are all the beads I made using the "Shibori" technique on page 8.

This bead has a black base, rolled in silver foil (not melted in yet), spiral of lt. turquoise and then all melted in.  Fins of copper green are added then Winter Blues frit was placed on the fins before all melted in and shaped. This is the "Shibori" style bead from "Spotlight on Silver" vol. 2 page. 8.

This bead has a black base, rolled in Winter Blues Frit then rolled in silver foil (not melted in yet), spiral of EDP and then all melted in then I applied random clear dots.  Fins of lt. turquoise are added then suspended threads of copper green all melted in and shaped. This is the "Shibori" style bead from "Spotlight on Silver" vol. 2 page. 8.

This bead has a black base, rolled in Gold Pink Frit then rolled in silver foil (not melted in yet), spiral of EDP and then all melted in then I applied random clear dots.  Fins of lt. turquoise are added then suspended threads of copper green all melted in and shaped. This is the "Shibori" style bead from "Spotlight on Silver" vol. 2 page. 8.

 See page 7, "Silvered Opal Yellow Bead" in "Spotlight on Silver" vol 2.  Not a big fan of the way this bead came out though.