Prize draw at Laura´s

I love Laura Sparlings blog and her beads. She´s having a prize draw at the moment. Take a look and if you like Laura´s beads as much as I do, You can enter the draw as well.
http://laurasparling.blogspot.com/2010/05/lonelies-prize-draw.html


The picture is from Lauras blog

This is my first time working with dichroic. It turned out alright, but I´m not sure this is going to be a favorite glass of mine. It is also a bit loud and sparkly for my liking. I still loooove my Bullseye, though, and the stash of bullseye rods are ever growing(-:.

Someone at the american lampworking forum, Lampworketc, requested a tutorial for making cabs to bezel set. I thought of a technique I came up with last year and suggested that one. The technique is for these cabs:



Well, a few people asked for some kind of tutorial, so I took some pictures during beadmaking, wrote down the directions and put it all together.
If you would like to se the tutorial, It can be found here:

http://www.loneringskaer.dk/Stripedcabs.pdf

Enjoy!

Playing with Bullseye

I have been playing with Bullseye lately, and I´m totally loving the colours you can get from it. I made this bracelet out of some of the encased beads I´ve made using Bullseye.

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.

Støt brysterne indsamling

For lidt tid siden valgte jeg at støtte Lene´s indsamling til Kræftens Bekæmpelses Støt Brysterne. Lene havde udloddet en smuk halskæde og i dag blev vinderen udtrukket. Jeg vandt! Jubii! Jeg vinder ellers aldrig noget, men denne gang var lykken med mig. Glæder mig til at se den smukke, lyserøde dame in person.

Nye forsyninger

I dag kom pakken fra Holland. Det er jo altid rart at lukke pakken op og finde glas der er pakket ordentligt ind. Ufedt at modtage knækkede stænger.


Jeg er fuldstændigt faldet for farverne i dette skønne Lauscha-glas. Især den blå og den olivengrønne synes jeg virkelig mangler i Morettis farver. Selv om lauscha er tysk, har jeg ikke fundet ret mange steder i Europa der forhandler det og slet ikke i de farver jeg gerne ville have. Hos www.sansiera.nl havde de alle de fire farver jeg var på udkig efter.



Især den blå her er jeg helt solgt i. Hos Sansiera hedder den "Donker teal". En blå søanemone... ja det bliver vel min egen sag! Jeg elsker den her blå og jeg elsker at lave de her søanemoner. Min logik! Basta!


Den røde transperante fra Lauscha er vildt flot. Den er meget lettere at arbejde med end Morettis trans rød, fordi den ikke er en striker. Den har den farve den har og bliver ikke mørk og underlig i flammen.


Perlen til venstre er cocoa med cobber green stringer, til højre er steel blue med turkis stringer.
Der er vist basis for at lege videre. Mere om mos agate en anden gang.