Starting Off 2026 With New Double Helix Silver Glasses!

Towards the end of 2025, I decided to treat myself to some "new to me" silver glasses Jed at Double Helix.

This was the first time in ages that I had placed an order as I was concerned about the whole doing business south of the Canadian border.

As I prefer to testing and experiment with new glasses, I usually opt to order half pounds of seconds as it is most likely when I fall in love with a specific glass, it sells out quickly.

Jed describes them as the following:

What are seconds?

Our second quality rods are less than perfect and are sold at a 25% discount. They may be too large, too small, too short, chipped, twisted or have an inclusion. They have passed our compatibility test and our color test, but not our pretty rod test.

In my experience, they are perfect to me... and allow me to really experiment while keeping my glass expenses within budget.

This time I chose Elpis 2, Hydros and Arke 2.

I am honored and excited that Jed added in samples of Iris, Clio and Ultraviolet Aion for my testing!

These are lovely glasses!

Over the next few blog posts, I will share my first set of experiments. 

By the way, I have also indulged in Double Helix Garage Sale boxes in the past. These glasses are not always labelled, so it challenges me to discover what each rod truly is.

Believe it or not, I am still working on glass that I got back in 2015 and 2016 Garage Boxes.

This set below was created with a simple encased round of a glass coded CL.OD.e (related to Clio). 

So simple but so beautiful!

 

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Silver Glass Reactions - Magic Of The Goddess Bead - Part 3

As part three of my posts on Goddess beads, I still have more sets of Goddess beads to share with you today.
This set started on a base of CiM - Creation Is Messy’s Boysenberry, a dense and saturated purple moonstone.

 

 

Layers of CiM Cafe Au Lait, Double Helix Melia 2, Psyche Light were placed and captured under clear portals of Double Helix Zephyr. 

 

To complete each bead, dots of silver infused Aurae Light was added and reduced to a metallic shine. 

 

The spacers are pure Boysenberry.

 

 

This set started on a base of sold out CiM - Creation Is Messy’s Cerulean, a transparent blue aqua.

 

 
Layers of Effetre Light Ivory, Double Helix 2016 Garage Sale glass coded as TC 663 and test glass Sk.j.

 

The silver glass was stormed and reduced and captured under clear portals of Double Helix Zephyr.

 

 
To complete each bead, dots of silver infused Aurae Light was added and reduced to a metallic shine.

 

The spacers are pure Cerulean.

I purchase my CiM glass from Nortel in Toronto.
Boysenberry shows as in stock currently.
Reach out to them for your glassy needs.


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Silver Glass Reactions - Magic Of The Goddess Bead - Part 2

As part two of my posts on my Goddess beads, I still have more sets of beads to share with you today. In this post, these beads have bases of new CiM - Creation Is Messy's colors for 2023.

Photographs never properly show the mother of pearl and mirror shine that each "bump" has captured.

This set started on a base of CiM - Creation Is Messy’s new for 2023, Lychee Milky and Lychee Misty, each are ivory opals.

 

Layers of Effetre Light Ivory, CiM's Leaky Pen were placed and capped with Double Helix 2016 Garage Sale glass coded as OP.e.

 

 
The silver glass was stormed and reduced and captured under clear portals of Double Helix Zephyr. 

 

To complete each bead, dots of silver infused Notos was added and reduced to a metallic shine. The spacers are pure Lychee Misty.

 

 

The set below started on a base of CiM - Creation Is Messy’s new for 2023, Volcanic Ash Milky, a grey milky opal.

 

Layers of Effetre Light Ivory, CiM's Leaky Pen were placed and capped with stormed Double Helix Notos. 

 

The silver glass was stormed and reduced and captured under clear portals of Double Helix Zephyr.

 

 
To complete each bead, dots of silver infused Notos was added and reduced to a metallic shine. The spacers are pure Volcanic Ash Milky.

 

I purchase my CiM glass from Nortel in Toronto. 

All the CiM glasses in this post are showing as currently available on their online shopping page.

Reach out to them for your glassy needs.

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