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Dwyn's Beads (was How Sad!!)
On Jul 12, 4:22*pm, Tina wrote:
Yeah, I remember the mood rings. *They never had very good colors. And these beads look nice, but I like having more control of the colours in a composition than a range from purple through to orange! What colour shift beads are there besides the "alexandrite"? *I'd love something in the blue green range but have never seen that. I didn't know about the propane tank level indicators. *And you say they use that technology for wind-chill? *Fairbanks, and especially my place, has very little wind, so I've never really paid much attention to that. *But you get that nasty wind off Lake Superior in Scarborough, don't you. Did I say wind-chill? Oops - WINE-temperature. What a difference one measly letter makes! LOL In glass - Alexandrite - blue to mauve. Effetre calls it Lavendar, I think. Two shades - the darker one is really nice - beautiful for encasing - as it doesn't scum. Gorgeous glass. There is also a pink / green shift in the bullseye glass - Called Rhubarb. Swarovski beads have the Alexandrite blue pink shift. and they have a colour called Cantalope that is a green pink shift that also looks greyish in some lights. CiM glass has Larkspur and Count Von Count is pink / blue. And Crocus is a pink green shift. And I recently ran across some commercial beads shaped like coffee beans that are brown in some lights - like chocolate - and red in others - like cinnamon hearts. So if the glass is available for commercial beads - it should be available somewhere for flameworking. ;-) |
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Dwyn's Beads (was How Sad!!)
Aha, You did say wine not wind. My bad.
I do have some beads made by Nicole Weltch of Black Cat Beads (moved from Sacramento, CA to somewhere near Pheonix, AZ a few years ago) in that glass that shifts from pink to green. The green is nice, but the pink is not very pink. Both are pastel. They're fun. Tina On Jul 13, 7:12*am, Dwyn wrote: On Jul 12, 4:22*pm, Tina wrote: Yeah, I remember the mood rings. *They never had very good colors. And these beads look nice, but I like having more control of the colours in a composition than a range from purple through to orange! What colour shift beads are there besides the "alexandrite"? *I'd love something in the blue green range but have never seen that. I didn't know about the propane tank level indicators. *And you say they use that technology for wind-chill? *Fairbanks, and especially my place, has very little wind, so I've never really paid much attention to that. *But you get that nasty wind off Lake Superior in Scarborough, don't you. Did I say wind-chill? Oops - WINE-temperature. What a difference one measly letter makes! LOL In glass - Alexandrite - blue to mauve. Effetre calls it Lavendar, I think. Two shades - the darker one is really nice - beautiful for encasing - as it doesn't scum. Gorgeous glass. There is also a pink / green shift in the bullseye glass - Called Rhubarb. Swarovski beads have the Alexandrite blue pink shift. and they have a colour called Cantalope that is a green pink shift that also looks greyish in some lights. CiM glass has Larkspur and Count Von Count is pink / blue. *And Crocus is a pink green shift. And I recently ran across some commercial beads shaped like coffee beans that are brown in some lights - like chocolate - and red in others - like cinnamon hearts. So if the glass is available for commercial beads - it should be available somewhere for flameworking. ;-) |
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Dwyn's Beads (was How Sad!!)
On Jul 14, 12:56*am, Tina wrote:
Aha, You did say wine not wind. *My bad. I do have some beads made by Nicole Weltch of Black Cat Beads (moved from Sacramento, CA to somewhere near Pheonix, AZ a few years ago) in that glass that shifts from pink to green. *The green is nice, but the pink is not very pink. *Both are pastel. *They're fun. Tina It does make designing jewelry with them a challenge. Trying to make sure the colours work in all lights! That's why I was so pleasantly surprised that the mood beads worked with one of the lampwork beads - it had just enough of the right colours to work with all the colours!!! |
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