I've been neglecting this weblog way to long, so sorry for that and so let me start to wish anyone who stopped by a happy and most of all healthy new year.

My creative year started with making beads for a bracelet. A special order from my father in law for the birthday of a very special lady... his wife. The colors should be either pink or blue and not to bright but soft-toned and I spend a lot of time finding the perfect match. I made a lot of beads that turned out well but simply not well enough for her.

Since I also have a new burner to heath the glass, I now have the opportunity to work with some more difficult glass, that didn't work for me on the old one because most of the time I burned them.

I started playing around with Rubino/goldruby and EDP because if worked right you can get beautiful patterns using those exact colors. Rubino is a transparent glass with an awsome pink color, burns very easely but because of it's reactions with other colors a wonderful glass to work with. The reaction of the color beneath or on top of the Rubino is a colorconcentration on the inside which results in darker lines or dots. EDP (Evil Defitrifying Purple) is a purple shade with a similar reactions but it's opaque and not transparent. The name is a result from it's nasty habbit to become a uggly rough kind of white if it's worked in and out of the flame too much. Both these colors combined with opaque pink and one of my favorite shades of blue and yellow resulted in beads that exactly matched the idea in my head.

And these are the final pieces of jewelry. A bracelet with a matching necklace made out lampwork beads combined with spacers and closures made out of pure silver and a pink waxed cord for the necklace. I love them and so does my mother in law!