Spring 2025 - Fresh Green Herbal - French Tarragon!

Welcome to Spring 2025!

This fresh spring set of beads feature a vibrant green transparent glass with intricate patterns.

The larger beads in the center have a speckled design with hints of blue and yellow, giving them a textured and organic appearance. 

The base glass is Effetre 071 Pale Yellow Emerald Green on which Glass Diversions French Tarragon glass frit was sprinkled.

The beads gradually decrease in size toward the clear spacer bead endcreating a gentle curve. The translucent quality of the beads and the way they reflect light conveys  an elegant, nature-inspired spring aesthetic.

Nortel Glass in Toronto is my glass supplier in Canada with quick shipping and many colors in stock and ready to ship to you.

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Quick Post For Today!

Pink Lipstick Frit Rounds
Materials: Effetre Glass and Val Cox Glass Frit

On a base of Effetre Rose Quartz transparent glass, Val Cox Pink Lipstick frit glass blend was sprinkled and melted to a smooth finish.

Green Frit Barrels
Materials: CiM - Creation is Messy Glass, Silver Foil and Pendragonfyre Glass Frit.

Starting on a base of CiM's Fiddlehead Ltd Run, an opaque green glass, silver foil was melted in and hand-mixed Pendragonfyre frit was sprinkled to create these 7 hand shaped round barrel beads. These have been etched to provide a smooth tactile feel to each bead.

Simple Rounds in a rainbow of colors!

These sets are available in the Pendragonfyre Artfire Studio

Crayon Colors in CiM - Creation is Messy and Effetre Glasses

Colorful rounds in crayon colours bring brightness to this bead set!

Colors include:
CiM's Canary Yellow, Elphaba Ltd Run#1 green, French Blue and Maraschino red
Effetre's Medium Grass Green transparent, Medium Blue transparent and Red striking transparent.

Simple Rounds
CiM - Creation is Messy

Marble - A milky white moonstone when unworked, turns a marble-like white after annealing.

French Blue - An opaque blue.

Elphaba Ltd Run# 1- An opaque green.

Canary - An opaque yellow.

Effetre Glass

Medium Topaz Transparent

Medium Blue Transparent

Medium Grass Green Transparent

New Violet Opaque

 

A revisit of neglected glasses..

This week I wanted to revisit a couple of glasses that I hadn't used for a while.
- My goddess set has a base of coral from CiM called Phoenix which is perfect for spring!
- The two simple round bead sets are rare uniques from CiM that I cherish and only make into sets when I am ready to part with just a bit.
The Pumpkin Unique is a beautiful sienna brown and can transform into various hues. This set is rich coffee tones.
The Chai Unique is a batch that is a soft pink that is so classic.

And of course, last but not least, Dark Cocoa and Golden Aurae… because no one can turn down Chocolate!

Have a great week!

All sets in this post have been SOLD


Morrighan
Goddess Bead Series #114
"Irish myth name of a goddess of death and war, derived from Irish Mhór Rioghain, meaning great queen"

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

This set of 12 goddess series beads was created on a base of CiM's Phoenix, a peach to orange coral opaque glass. Each goddess bead was then layered with dots of Effetre Dark Ivory and a mixture of CiM's Black Currant Unique and silver infused glasses including TAG Absinthe and Double Helix Olympia Rain. The combination of the glasses create delicate storms captured under each clear glass portal. Double Helix glasses, Aurae and Triton, complete the metallic highlight droplets on each bead.



Soft Pink Rounds
Materials: CiM - Creation is Messy Glasses

This set of 21 round beads was created with a rare glass from CiM - Creation is Messy.  Originally formulated to be a shade of Chai, a soft brown, this batch of glass, Unique#3 turned into a soft pink opaque. Simple and classic!

Rich Coffee Rounds
Materials: CiM - Creation is Messy Glasses

This set of 19 round beads was created with a rare glass from CiM - Creation is Messy. Originally formulated to be a shade of Pumpkin, the batch of glass, Unique#1 turned into a burnt sienna brown. These round beads transformed in a rich shade of coffee brown with slight variations within the hue. Simple and absolutely beautiful!

Golden Cocoa
Materials: Effetre and Double Helix Glasses

This golden set of 11 beads were created with a base of Effetre Wine Red Brown, which resembles dark chocolate on which Double Helix Aurae shards were carefully placed. Each bead was then reduced to bring out the glorious metallic bling in hues of gold, blue and rose!

My February Flame!

When we think of February, we think of love, the heat of romance and our favorite flame!
Well for this month, my favorite flame produced some awesome bead sets....
Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about my hubby, he is pretty awesome too!

Smiles, have a great week!

Stoneground Gold
This set is NOW Sold
Materials: CiM and Double Helix Glasses

On a base of golden CiM Stoneground, streams of rare silver infused glass,
simply known as HE-379, flows around each round bead.
The glittering shine from these 9 beads is amazing!

Add some bling to your spring jewelry!

Ceibhfhionn
Goddess Bead Series #77
This set is NOW Sold


"Irish/Gaelic myth name of a water goddess of inspiration, intelligence,
knowledge and creativity, meaning fair locks"


Materials: CiM, Effetre and Double Helix Glasses

This set of 10 goddess series beads were created on a base of
Vetrofond Lichen Dark glass with layered dots of
Effetre Dark Ivory and CiM Black Currant Unique.
Storms of Double Helix rare Psyche Light were captured under
clear glass bumps to create the the swirls in each storm portal.

Highlights of Double Helix new silver test glass, HE-379 create
the bling dots for this beautiful storm portal beads!

Electric Blue Gold
Materials: CiM and Double Helix Glasses
This set is NOW Sold

On a base of CiM's Electric Avenue, a beautiful blue opal,
Double Helix silver infused glass, Triton, was
dotted, scrolled and lined around each round bead.
The glittering shine from these 9 beads is perfect for chasing away winter!

Eight spacers are included in this set.

Add some bling to your spring jewelry!

Lichen Rounds
This set is NOW Sold
Materials: Vetrofond Glass

This generous set of 31 round beads was created with Vetrofond's Lichen Dark glass.
This glass creates mottled creamy beads with tan and blue striations with an
organic pottery-like finish.

Stock up on rounds for your winter jewelry designs!

Ilmatar
Goddess Bead Series #78
This set is NOW Sold


"Finnish myth name of an androgynous virgin goddess of the air,
derived from the element ilma, meaning air"


Materials: Effetre and Double Helix Glasses

This set of 10 goddess series beads were created on a base of
Effetre Blueberry Marble opaque glass with layered dots of
Effetre Dark Ivory.

Storms of Double Helix rare Psyche Light and
Olympic Rain were layered and were captured under clear
glass bumps to create the the swirls in each storm portal.

Highlights of Double Helix new silver test glass, HE-379 create
the bling dots for this beautiful storm portal beads!

Sign of Spring
This set is NOW Sold
Materials: Effetre and Glass Diversions Frit

This set of 16 spring-like beads were created on a base of
Effetre White opaque glass with a generous sprinkling of
Glass Diversions Robin's Egg glass frit.

A breath of spring in the middle of winter!