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Title: Frog Eggs
Artist: AJGlass
Image created by: AJGlass using a Panasonic DMC-LZ7 Lumix 7.2 MP camera and PhotoShop.
Medium: Glass
Type: Soft Glass, 104 Coefficient of Expansion (Moretti/Effetre, Vetrofond, Lausha)
Description: Glass Beads

Details: Teal glass and light sky blue frit were used to create these spacer beads which have been annealed in a kiln. These small beads took 4 minutes each to make. All of these beads were annealed for 18 hours. No image color correction was necessary. The bright white pinpoint dots on these beads are light reflections.

Discussion: Teal is a nice glass color to work with. When melted, it has a consistency similar to that of molasses. It also retains its color well and it doesn’t seem to be too reactive with most other colors. The light sky blue frit is also a nice glass to work with. Combining the two makes for a rather eye-appealing color combination.

Further comment: No, these really aren’t glass frog eggs nor did I originally intend for them to be. However, when I showed this pile of beads to several people, they all remarked that they looked like frog eggs. So that’s what I decided to call this deviation.

Recently, I’ve been making lots of spacer beads - there’s more than 100 in this pile alone. I’ve found that at local shows, spacers sell really well in sets of 10. I make spacers out of just about every color of glass currently available. Thus, I am sure to have spacer beads which will match just about any glass lampwork focal bead offered for sale by myself or by other lampworkers. Often times at a show, customers will come up to my table with lampwork focal beads that they have purchased elsewhere. I then help them to match up their focals with my spacers to create beautiful bead sets which they can then make into finished pieces of jewelry.

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