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I finally baked a few of my rose attempts. And in a bit of a clean up I used the last few slices of an old kaleidoscope cane on a bead. Yay beads!

Creative energy is low tonight so I figured now would be a good time to get busy trying out my ideas for the hubby’s VDay card.  This is most of picture one.  There are a few other layers not present here but in case I use this one I don’t want him seeing it all.  I’m not sure if I like the effect I put on the roses.  Doesn’t really scream warm fuzzy thoughts.  Tell me what you think.  Cool or freaky?

Day 10 being Sunday I was going to do what I wanted. I read Stephen King’s Duma Key, made a cane and made beads, now cooking.

The beads use the canes I’ve made the last few days. The small lampwork round shaped ones in the main focus are about 12mm across. In the edge of the picture are larger pea pod shaped beads made from the scraps of the cane making - the design is called ‘natasha beads’ and each face of the bead (the edges are rounded but they start rectangular) is a mirror image. They look like inkblots. After they’re done getting toasted, they get holes drilled then they get the heck sanded out of them in the tumbler, then buffed and polished.