Loooong sea urchins

So I´m still making sea urchins. The last couple of days, I´ve begon making them longer, though. I still really enjoy this style of beads and have more ideas to try out. I love my new Lauscha colours; they are so rich in colour and very nice to work in the flame. I´ve read somewhere on lampwork etc, that Lauscha only ever made one batch of Steel blue back in 1997, I think it was! Uargh, what if they run out some day and are not able to reproduce it?

The purple sea urchin is made of effetre purple and is the only one up for sale. The blue one has found its place around my neck.