New Love Sonnet Bead Sets and a Few Spacers

Just a few beads to share today that I created last weekend when I fired up my BRAND NEW kiln for the first time.

In case you didn't see my Instagram or Facebook post, I purchased a BlueBird XL kiln when I was on a road trip to Toronto last month.

Jean and Jennifer at Nortel ROCK!

I was very lucky to get this beautiful berry purple colored "cadillac of kilns" which I have named Penny The Dragon.💜

My first session at the torch flew by and below are the sets created.

Starting on a base of Effetre white encased in CiM - Creation Is Messy Candlelight, my own hand mixed Pendragonfyre Love Sonnet frit was sprinkled to create these romantic beads. 

The spacer beads are included in this set are made with pure CiM Candlelight.

Starting on a base of Effetre white encased in Effetre Amethyst, my own hand mixed Pendragonfyre Love Sonnet frit was sprinkled to create these romantic beads. 

The spacer beads are included in this set are made with pure Effetre Amethyst.

This set of frit beads combines CiM Primavera, an opaque green with Val Cox Songbird frit.

Simple round beads within this abundant set. 

Four plain spacers of Primavera complete this set.

I always include time in each session to create some simple spacer beads that are small enough for earring sets. 

I find it is great way to practice consistency and heat control making multiple beads on one mandrel.

The spacer beads below are made from CiM - Creation Is Messy glasses

Atoll Misty This glass was very popular when it was introduced as a color in the 2022 CiM palette release. It is a nice minty green misty opal.

Beeswax Misty, a soft pale opal yellow that can strike to an amber depending on the time and temperature it is worked.

From the photos below, you will note the difference in the beads color and translucency in the making of these spacers. 

I usually make 4-6 spacers on one mandrel, so the variety of the beads are a result of the warming and rewarming of each bead.

At the time of this post, Nortel has in stock:

- CiM Candlelight and Beeswax Misty. Atoll Misty appears to be SOLD Out

- Effetre White and Amethyst should be available.

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Silvered Stringer - More Than Just for Ivory!

Happy Friday!

As I posted back last Friday, I enjoy creating beads with silvered ivory stringer.

Today's post, I have one more set to share as well as 2 new bead sets using a variation of silvered stringer.

I created the coral silvered stringer using CiM - Creation Is Messy's Phoenix glass and silver foil. These stringers are created in the same way as the ivory ones.

Silvered stringer gives beads a gorgeous organic look to them. Silvered coral on its own “webs” or “curdles” giving it a beautiful organic look.

Here are today's bead sets each created with CiM - Creation Is Messy glasses currently available to order.

On a base of CiM's Canoe Ltd Run simply decorated with silvered ivory stringer dots. These would be great with an etched surface for a faux stone finish and tactile feel.

 

 

Silvered coral stringer on CiM's Poi, an opaque grey toned purple. 

 

Smurfy, CiM's opaque turquoise blue is the base of this set of beads on which the Phoenix silvered stringer decorations are abundant in dots, streams and swirls.

 

 

Glass availability at the time of this post may be available through Nortel. Canoe, Poi and Smurfy are showing as available in their online cart.

I purchase my CiM glass from Jennifer and Jean at Nortel in Toronto. Reach out to them for your glassy needs.

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Revisiting Silvered Ivory for a Spring Session to Relax and Restore!

As we hopefully anticipate spring in here New Brunswick, I spent a session at the torch revisiting a bead technique that I return to when I need to clear my head and relax and restore!

I pull out a few favourite CiM - Creation Is Messy glasses from my "favourites" shelf and pair it with one of my favorite organic “glass tools” and I like to create hand pulled silvered Ivory.
Silvered Ivory is either dark or light ivory glass rolled in pure silver leaf and pulled into tiny “stringers” of glass for embellishing beads.

Silvered Ivory stringer, or SIS, gives beads a gorgeous organic look to them. I have a preference of using silver foil and Effetre Light Ivory when creating stringers as I seem to be able to better control the dispersion of tiny speckles of silver with this combination.
Ivory glass on it’s own “webs” or “curdles” giving it a beautiful organic look. When you add silver not only does it react with the Ivory glass, but it sometimes reacts with the beads base as well!

I am always excited to sit down at my lampwork table and create because I tend to learn new things every time. I use this blog as my journal of my sessions and often look back at favourite combinations to plan new bead sets. Note: all glass is different. Each color has its own chemical make-up that may cause it to react differently with different glasses.

Within this post I have used this wonderful type of stringer with some of my stash colors of CiM - Creation Is Messy.
On a cores I have used dots and stream of silvered ivory stringer on both round and zulu shaped beads.

So pretty for summer jewelry designs. 

Let's see this week's sets!

First up, this set of round beads was created on a base of CiM's Lady of the Lake. 

 

This glass is a pale green milky opal that stays translucent after annealing- same hue as Sea Glass.

 

I wrapped a stream of silvered ivory around the centre of each bead on which 2 wraps of fine silver wire was added. 

The spacers of pure Lady of the Lake complete the set. 

 

 

This glass should be available for purchase through CiM Resellers.

CiM Mulberry Limited Run with SIS dots. 

 

 

Notice the micro-dots of silver in each of the ivory dots.. So pretty. 

 

 

The spacers are pure Mulberry.

I have noticed that when I use silver or silver glass with Mulberry, it will darken to a very dark purple which from some angles look like black so I assume it absorbs some metal through fuming.

 

CiM Thistledown Limited Run with SIS dots. 

 

This glass is a unique run of CiM's Plum opal which I tried many years ago as a limited run glass. 

 

 

It also will fume silver to it's base glass if silver glass is worked through several warming and cooling cycles. 

 

Within this set of beads, I kept the glass at an even temperature as I wanted it to capture the SIS dots along with the striations that this glass creates naturally as the bead is formed.

 

The spacers are pure Thistledown.

CiM Sea Mist glass was created as a limited run glass with a core of clear, encased in transparent blue, encased in clear. 

 

For this bead set I paired it with SIS streams and twists and shaped the beads in the Zulu press to create this unique shape. 

 

 

 

This glass also likes silvered ivory stringer. 

 

 

The round spacers are pure Sea Mist.

 

Each of the last 3 glasses within this post appear to be Sold Out on the CiM website archive. I primarily purchase my CiM glasses from Jennifer and Jean at Nortel in Toronto so I am not sure if they have any in their back stock.

You are welcome to reach out to them to check or they may have suggestions of similar offerings for your needs.

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Just a quick post for today - Pendragonfyre Love Sonnet Beads!

Just a quick post for today! I spent last weekend making some of my favorite sets of beads allowing my color choices to seem random from my "treasure chest" of older CiM glasses.

CiM Blush was one of the first colors of glass that I tried from Creation Is Messy and the love affair with the palette began. 

Here is a photo of the first bead set that I created with CiM Blush and Double Helix Aurae from way back in July of 2009.

 

Now for today's beads!

 

 

Starting on a base of Effetre white encased in CiM - Creation Is Messy Blush, my own hand mixed Pendragonfyre Love Sonnet frit with a sprinkle of raspberry was sprinkled to create these romantic beads. 

 

The spacer beads are included in this set are made with pure CiM Blush.

 

 

Perfect for the spring and summer season! 

 

 

I primarily purchase my CiM glass from Jennifer and Jean at Nortel in Toronto. 

Reach out to them for your glassy needs.

 

CiM Blush being an original glass...it unfortunately, it appears that this glass is Sold Out on the CiM Website, but a quick search does show Paula at Flamedame.com may have a bit in stock for those of you in the United States.

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A step at a time to full studio restocking!

Amethyst and Amber Flowers
Materials: CiM - Creation is Messy, Double Helix and Effetre Glasses

Five Hand-formed Flowers created with CiM Thai Orchid, Effetre Medium Amethyst and Light Amber. Highlights of Double Helix Helios shine in the centre of each flower.

Goddess#153- Nemesis
Greek myth name of the goddess of justice and vengeance, meaning "retribution; righteous anger."

Materials: CiM - Creation is Messy, Double Helix, Effetre and Trautman Art Glasses

This set of 7 beads were created on a base of CiM Hades Ltd Run#2. Portals were added with combinations of Effetre Dark Ivory, Trautman Art's Oxblood and Double Helix Aurae Light captured under a dot of Effetre Clear. Dots of CiM Gunmetal create the highlights on these beads.

Goddess#154-Si-wang-mu

Si-wang-mu, who lived eternally in the Jade Mountains, was a Chinese mother goddess or Mother Queen of the West."

Materials: CiM-Creation Is Messy, Double Helix and Effetre Glasses

This set of 10 beads were created on a base of CiM Elphaba Ltd Run#1. Portals were added with combinations of Effetre Dark Ivory, CiM's Black Currant and Double Helix Olympia Rain captured under a dot of Effetre Clear. Dots of Aurae Light create the highlights on these beads.

Simple Spacers in CiM Seafoam Ltd Run - An opal green resembling beach glass
Materials: CiM - Creation is Messy Glass

Simple Rounds in CiM Desert Pink - An opaque pastel pink.

Materials: CiM - Creation is Messy Glass

Simple Spacers in CiM Atlantis - A bluish teal opal.
Materials: CiM - Creation is Messy Glass

Simple Rounds in CiM Maraschino - A dense transparent bright carnival red.
Materials: CiM - Creation is Messy Glass

Simple Rounds in CiM Poison Apple - A dense and saturated opal green
Materials: CiM - Creation is Messy Glass

Simple Spacers in Tangerine Orange
Materials: Effetre Glass