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Ellygator β Turquoise Spiral
Published: 2007-01-09 19:56:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 3613; Favourites: 61; Downloads: 58
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(2006) 16" for the overall length of the necklace, 1 1/4"x 1" for the focal bead.Art glass bead (black, russet, clear and turquoise Moretti glass, 999 silver wire), Fireline, Bali silver, aventurine beads, onyx beads, silver beads, findings.
Another art glass bead. This one was built up from turquoise glass (still showing at the bottom and top), then encased in black glass. Afterwards I dotted the bead with the brown glass, then topped the dots with turquoise and clear glass and swirled them together with a piece of silver wire stuck into the soft glass between the dots and twisted around itself.
I then flattened the bead on the marver and added turquoise glass dots around the edges.
Of all the gemstone beads I have I felt this bead would work best with onyx, which picks up nicely on the black glass, and aventurine which happened to be just the same shade as the turquoise glass.
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Thank you very much! I am suck a sucker for turquoise and black.
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So lovely... Beautiful contrast between the blue and black.
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Thank you! It's a color combo that's never getting old for me.
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you dont happen to buy your clasps and metal beads from tierracast do you?
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No I don't, most stuff is from Firemountain gems, my local bead store and a crafts chain store. Dou you have a link for tierracast? I'm always interested in researching new supplies.
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tierracast.com
my boyfriend and his dad work there.
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Lucky them! I'd love to work in a place that supplied silver and jewery materials. I'll be sure to check out their website.
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Great!
I love your designs by the way...
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Simply a beautiful piece of jewelry. Truly a work of art
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Thank you very much! It was fun seeing how the bead had turned out and then matching the rest of the necklace materials...
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It does fit perfectly with those stones. I have to say it's kind of nifty to be able to think 'hey, i kinda get how she did that' even though my glass learning is on hiatus
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Well, it's good to hear my description made some kind of sense... Thank you!
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Thank you! It was a lot of fun to make.
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Oh, ja... Ich hatte dein Antwort erst nicht verstanden, weil ich es bis vorhin nicht auf meinem Devwatch hatte (Gallery Probleme)!
Die Kombination hat es wirklich in sich. 
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Geht mir auch so, am Ende hatte ich drei Ketten mit den Farben (2 muss ich noch posten). Konnte einfach nicht die Finger von der Kombination lassen...
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You're my hero, Elly!
Every time I sneak a peek at your gallery, I'm impressed. I haven't branched out into lampwork yet, but hope to someday.
Say -- where'd you get that nice slab of rock/pebbled surface for your backgrounds? (It *is* rock, right?)
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Thank you! And if you ever have a chance you definitely should give lampwork a go, it is so much fun, I think you'd be hooked for good.
The stones in my photos sort of came with the house: the steps down to the garden have that kind of mottled slate covering and around the pool area they poured concrete with all those little round pebbles stuck into it. Both make nice surfaces that don't overwhelm the pieces and craftily hide the fact that all of my "photo studio" is just plain old Jane sunshine outdoors...
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Very Nice Indeedy.
Like The Comments also very Easy for me anyway to follow and visualise.
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Thank you! I always want to know how other glass artists do the amazing things they manage...
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Thanks very much! Glad you like it.
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the detail of your work never ceases to amaze me..
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Thank you! It was great to see how the spirals had turned out...
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Thank you! I had so much fun with my glass these holidays!
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I can see that and you're welcome!
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Absolutely beautiful, really really amazing. 
Colour, brightness, style and above all elegance.
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Thank you so much! It was fun working the beads without much of the thought of the final design and then have them guide me through the rest of the process of assembling the necklace.
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I adore the work you did on the central bead. The rest of the necklace suits very well with it, too.
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Thank you so much! I love dots and swirly dots...
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I love the details that can be seen in the "Full View" of this one. The swirl effect came out great . . . Very impressive! Beautiful piece!!!
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Thank you! I love art glass beads for their wonderful details. They remind me of fractal art sometimes.
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You're welcome
Yeah they are really pretty
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Thank you! I am really in love with that turqoise. It's such a great glass to work with!
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Beautiful! This somehow reminds me of something of olden magick, not voodoo but perhaps a shamanic/witch like magick. Can't quite place it. I think it's because of the vivid blues though, as I tend to see that sort of ethereal magick in that colour. It's really quite beautiful, I like the right detail of the pendant.
What is a marvel? Out of curiousity.
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Thank you! I guess there is some mystery in the depth of art-glass beads, just like marbles I always think they contain a little universe of their own... A marver is a piece of pressed graphite (about 2"x2"x1.5"), like a small square tablet fixed to a wooden handle. It can withstand the heat of molten glass but does not react with it or stick to it, so you can press the soft glass against it in order to shape, e.g. to flatten it.
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Oh I know what you mean! I used to pick up marbles and make my own solar system
Oooo, I see. I'm really keen on getting into things like lampworking, and silver smithing and leather working and carving and sculpting heh. there's a course for silversmithing at the School of Art (a University) mid year so I might take it, it's rather expensive though! But a full on week of 9-3. I just wish I had all the tools for smithing so I could do it at home; not to mention my own sort of studio!
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I hope you can raise the money. I'm sure with that much time spent training you'd get a terrific foundation. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that it works out.
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Thanks very much! I hope so too. Only it might make me sad when it's over 
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Wonderful!! 
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Thank you! I think I just need more vacation - just some time to decompress and then really plan projects - I could do so much more. Dash the need to earn money and pay the mortgage...!
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Absolutly breath taking!
The necklace composition works so well with the focal...
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Thank you! I was so glad I had that strand of aventurine. (Had it lying around forever thinking I'd never do anything with that faded-looking green...)
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that looks really fanatastic, how much do you wanna have for a piece like this?
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Thank you! I'm currently in negotiation with a girl from New Zealand (about postage) on this one. The asking price is $130 plus shipping.
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perhaps we could make a deal in the future, you make me one of your wonderfull jewellerywork and I make you one of mines
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