Well,. here are the quick snapshots of Tuesday’s beads,…hot out of the kiln.  Well not really,..they be cool .
Don’t forget you can click on these photos to see them a bit larger.

Here are two focal beads with different degrees of weirdnessnessness. The focal bead on the left is kind of interesting the way there is a depth in the white/pinkish area. The focal bead on the right too is quite interesting with the mottled grey and black through it.  The Gizby on the right is purple/grey and has very nice pattern on its body.  And since this session at the torch was primarily aimed at cooking up stock for my ebay shop.. they are all heading there sometime this week,…. although I might need purple gizby to go to auction for me.. not sure yet.

A couple of lentils…erm what can I say about them??  They’re different :} and a Gizby with pyjamas on,lol. The lentils will go in the shop and not sure about red gizby yet.
 

Pendants,.. probably won’t be listed anywhere for a few weeks and,.. auction or shop? I haven’t decided.

No torchin’ tomorrow,.. I’ve just got too much admin to do which cannot wait another day…whaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Two of these will be going into my ebay store with Buy it Now and the middle one to auction. I hope to get the store beads up in the next day or two, but the flower bead..hmm.. it might make it to the next auctions starting after 5pm SAT 18 April PDT / 10am SUN 19 April AEST.. if not..then the following auctions same times.

The first one (is a heart with hearts inside,..dark photo hard to see in this quick snapshot) will possibly make it to auction the following week. The other bead and gizby there I think will be going into my ebay store.
 

I’m currently making beads that will be suitable for stocking up my ebay store, so that I can offer a nice and ‘unusual’ selection of beads, but try as I might to get stock up… people are buying them too fast for me to get ahead,lol. STOP it I tell you! STOP! :}

A couple more Gizbys were born on this day,.. and the bead on the right is a bit delish!

Not a bad session at the torch on Good Friday.  I had an extended session (most of the day) since I didn’t need to race out the door to pick children up from school and so I could let the kiln stay on longer.

These are stunners,. the left one looks like an active volcano…ooh I think I just named it.

Some interesting and unusual beads here. The 2nd is my talisman bead.

Gizbys were born on this day too.

Commission piece for L******
The mandrel poking out the front of the bead made it hard to get a sharp image. I’ll take another shot of it once I’ve taken it off the mandrel and cleaned it up.  I can’t wait to see what she’ll do with this.

Something a bit different and very fun to make. Though according to both of my daughters 16yrs & 12yrs,..who told me this at separate times without them knowing their sibling saw the same thing,….. the bead on the RHS  (Side A pic) has a cute green snail on it.  See his antennae and his wide smile?  LOL  Now I’ll never be able to look at that bead again and see loose splatter watercolour-like painting (erm,..well that’s what I was trying for phrrrrrt!)…but instead… there’s a darn snail in the garden.. dontcha just hate that?!!!

Side A

Side B

Sorry Mwahaahahaha.  Still trying…still failing, but at least I know what doesn’t work. and think I know what will work.

Oh and I also made a few Gizbys today,. but sheesh… they be camera shy ones and they bolted before I could take a snap of them. grrrrrr 

Ok… I know I know,.. I am cruel… but here be the distorted image of an idea I am still working on.  I really can’t show you yet, even though they’re turning out nicer than my first few attempts. They’re still far from where I would like them to be and so really don’t want to damage your eyes by showing you these attempts either.  I have another idea that might help them work… but it could take some time to get the gear together.. times like this I wish I wasn’t the handy man of the house… oh wait…. that be handy woman..phew.. that was close… I almost slipped into character.. and cleared my throat and spat on the floor.

Here is the pic, albeit distorted, which makes you wonder why you’re spending more than a nano-second looking at it, and don’t try looking at it while you’re squinting your eyes…. stop it!!  I tried it and it doesn’t work…….. oh you don’t believe me…..you just have to see for yourself dontcha hey?  LOL    Patience, Grasshopper!