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Bead Catalog

You're welcome to look through the newly opened bead catalog and see if there is something you'd like to order. I've ordered pounds and pounds of clear glass in the 9-10mm size I like, so I'll be ready to make all those sparkly encased beads. I haven't sit down to put an exact number on it, but in flipping through my receipts I'd bet I use about 40 lbs of clear a year! Eek! I wonder if that's a lot or pretty much average? Oh well - at $12 a pound, it sure seems like a lot to me...

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Glass!

I drove out to FlameTree Glass first thing this morning to stock up on glass I had run out of. What'd I get? Hmmm... here's the receipt. It says: 904-Gelly sty pink, 224-light sky blue, 422-orange pastel, 418-yellow pastel, 428 light red, V228-dark sky blue and lots and lots of 004-CLEAR! Is it weird that my favorite glass color to buy isn't actually a color at all? And that I actually prefer plain ol' Effetre clear over the supposedly better, certainly more expensive alternatives?

I'm not knocking Lauscha, believe me, because I think some of their colored glasses are absolutely luscious , but I never did very well using their clear for encasing. It's waaaaaay too stiff for my purposes and I ended up losing most of the beads I encased in Lauscha to cracking. And I don't mean little hairline cracks. Oh no - I mean big honkin' cracks that actually split the beads into 2 pieces that rock back and forth on the countertop when I go to clean them! Considering that probably 95% of the beads I make are clear encased, I just can't take the risk, you know?

And speaking of beads, I selected next month's color combination and have already started working! I am loving the new system - I feel so inspired!!

Jenagirlbeads September Giveaway!

Okay... I'm a little later than I thought I'd be, but it's still Tuesday and here I am!

So, like I said, I've been running seriously low on some of my favorite and most-often-used glass colors. Last night I made up a quick list of the colors I absolutely HAD to have and then this morning, I headed out to FlameTree Glass to pick them up. Wow! What a store!! Their glass inventory is fantastic and I can't wait to go back when I've got much deeper pockets. Plus, I met the owners, Lance and Maureen. They seemed really nice and I wish I'd had more time to hang around and talk to them. Maybe next time!

And now onto the giveaway portion of this post! I bought 7 different colors of glass today. I'm looking for the first person to guess all seven colors in order to win the hula bead with two-toned lei. And yes, I will "defuzzify" it before mailing it to you!!

Please limit your color guesses to 7 per comment, ok?

So...start guessing!!