Look At What I Made!

Here are just a few of the beads I made on Saturday....a few of the 50+ beads I made!!!! My husband was such a love and watched after the kids throughout the day as I was on and off my torch for an hour at a time as I made beads for Lorelei and played with my new Val Cox frit that arrived that afternoon. Can we say ExCiTeD to play with new blends AND have all day to do it?


Frit makes me happy. Particularly this cranberry/hot pink/fuschia blend! I'm not done playing with this yet and can't wait to try it out with silver. These beads below have little white cores and then the cranberry frit is swirled outwards as it is melted and blended with clear. Great little beads that are already drawing beads on the homefront.

Here is more of the same frit, but I melted it and blended it in with the clear in a heavier volume so the beads are much more intense in color. They look like candy to me!


And then we have the cranberry frit at the core of these big beads that are encased in clear and then have beautiful, deep purple frit swirled around them. They remind me a bit of colors used in the Indian culture. They were by far my favorites and they also got the top thumbs up from my husband as his favorites of the day, too. It makes me happy that Todd is interested in looking at what I make and he offers up positive (and sometimes negative) feedback. Nice to have his support and encouragement :)


There were two other frit blends I tried out last night, but the beads still need to be cleaned & photographed, so you'll just have to wait until my next blog post. And another new blend arrived today....woo hoo! I messed up and ordered two jars of one frit blend. When I realized my mistake, I emailed Val's sister Sabrina who manages her frit company and asked if I could exchange the jar of frit and I would pay shipping both ways. Sabrina was AWESOME, replying very quickly that she would be happy to exchange jars and that I only needed to pay shipping for returning the one jar. My new jar arrived today at the same time I was sending back my extra jar to Sabrina. She kept her promise to send out my new color choice ASAP. I thought that was excellent customer service and don't remember the last time I was treated so well....especially when it was my fault. I am still in awe that she didn't wait for my return.

Two thumbs up, three cheers and FIVE STARS for supportive husbands of addicted lampworkers AND for Sabrina at Val Cox Frit!