When shards behave

I like shards. Here's one shard bead that behaved really well, look at all those gorgeous colours popping out. 4 views of the same bead.

Looking good

Well someone else has been very clever at making my beads look very good.

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Four in one

One bead all the way around.

 

 

No kiln, but there's still an oven

So, no bead making recently as my kiln refuses to work, and I am waiting for a replacement part. So what do you do instead?
Having a surplus of milk, and not wanting to waste it, I decided to make something new, never before attempted by little ole me. A creme caramel.
Looking in the oven, is looked like to might have gone wrong. So I tentatively tuned it out into a bowl in case it collapsed into a custardy mess. So I was overjoyed with the way it turned out. It looks like a proper creme caramel

Simple things please simple minds. :-) Oh, and it tastes ok too.

There's gold in them thar beads

Well, to be more precise - goldstone.
Here are some of the beads i have made recently with goldstone. Another way to introduce shimmer and bling.

That's just plain weird.

OK, its official. I'm a little obsessed with glass!. I am seeing the potential for new beads in all sorts of things.
I saw this and started thinking of glass colour combinations.
Its a bruise on poor hubbys leg!

Lighting

Same bead  -  Another flash vs daylight.