Reading the rainbow

When I was a kid and lived in Toronto, I used to watch "the reading rainbow" with Levar Burton, on t.v. I loved that show and for some reason these beads remind me of that show. I'm sure it's just the rainbow colours...the words....*smile". It's nice though that beads I've made give me back good childhood memories!

Almost well

Well, I haven't healed completley but I do feel a bit better. Plus, I'm just very impatient and very much in love with creating with pc SO...ya can't keep me away from the table too long! *smile*

I've created different things for different reasons in the past two weeks. I had a couple (and still have some) of custom orders for beads that I have done in the past with the question if I could replicate some. Thank goodness I didn't use up all of my canes from the past! I made some new-old beads which was strange because we all get better with time and looking at old beads is weird...the flaws!!! The beginner mistakes that are so obvious all of a sudden!!! hahaha...what fun!

What I love is when customers ask me to do things with special colour combinations that I have never thought of using before. Orders like these are really nice to work on.

And the ideas that are buzzing about in my head want to become real aswell so I dabbled a bit with them and tried some new things out. Interessting!

Seasons

Do you perfer Summer or rather Autumn?

I love colours!

I created some new things yesterday, experimenting with colours, watching the pasta-machine magicly creating new colours as it came out. Great!

rolling them up!

I continued with the fun idea of rolling up beads. The last batch I made out of scrap clay was not only fun to do but also looked pretty good. So I took it a step further and used "new" clay and tried out some colour combinations. I rolled different colours through the pasta machine together and just kinda played around with it. It's really fun to make. After the beads were baked, the small red ones actually reminded me of pasta itself, they are very thin and even sound like hard pasta in my hand.

I put them up for sale to see if any one is interested in this sort of bead. I wonder....

After doing pretty much of nothing in the last couple of days (due to a new job) I had the huge urge to sit and work today! These are two of three canes that I made today (the boyfriend has my camera so you'll have to wait for a bit before I can post more photo's). I have also created some new pendants, and beads which I'm really happy about! I just love creating and working with colours. Unfortunatley it's getting warmer now and for the first time I felt what it means working with clay that is too warm. It just doesn't work! If we have a hot summer this year I'll have to work in the fridgerator!! For storage: I bought a couple of plastic boxes yesterday from ikea. Now I have tons of space to store my canes and beads!

And here are the beads from the same swirl canes that I used on the mini jar. I kinda think they might have looked better if I kept them natural without any varnish/glaze but oh well, I can make more. I'm now looking for some really happy kid-loved design for a necklace for my niece, it's her birthday in two weeks. Maybe I'll use this...don't know yet.

I tried to use some more happy spring colours yesterday and decided on using swirls. I decorated a small jam jar with it. I like it.