Second Day With My New Kiln!!!

My mother in law saw the cosmic storm beads I made and wanted a few for her Pandora Style bracelet so I got to make some more of these fun beads!!  As before these are hard beads to photograph and in addition I was under some time issues with the daylight coming to and end so I took the photos while they were still on the mandrels.  Sorry for the not so pretty pictures.  They really do not do the beads justice. 

I'm not going to list the glass used on each bead but I tend to like the ones used with aqua and green bases best.  The ones in the middle are much prettier than they show here and are made with either carnelian bases or rose quartz or pink champagne bases or encasement. 

Here are a few close ups:

That's it.  Check back soon for the kiln disaster day post.

First Beads Using My New Kiln - before it died yesterday

Yep that's right, I did get to make two batches of beads in my new kiln before it died yesterday.  This batch of beads I made on request for a friend who wants a few jewelry pieces made for her.

These beads are all made with black, white, and Rubino Oro.  Some have some clear and the darker pink ones have a little lt. transparent purple on top.

The third bead in this set is an example of using the lt. trans. purple with the RO.

I also tried a few beads that I saw on Corina's site.  Thought I would give them a whirl and experiment with a few color combinations of my own. 

The first one is my favorite and is made with Corina's formula.  The rest of the beads I used either a white or ivory base, RO and violet or black for the stripes.  The second bead has an encasement of crocus instead of clear and is much too dark to see the nice stripes. 

So it was a short day at the torch and I really loved my new kiln.  I'll be making the top set of beads into jewelry soon.

Kiln died today - grrr.....!!!!!

Darn it!!!!  My kiln popped and crackled and died today.  I won't be making beads until it is fixed so I apologize for the delay on my current bead orders.  I will be switching over to jewelry making with all the beads I did get done prior to today.