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Color - Where to Find Inspiration

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Color is everywhere. It is in everything. Even black & white has 'color' in the form of undertones.  Have you ever tried to match a black shirt and a black pair of pants? Or picked out paint swatches for white ceilings? The underlying colors seep out and your white suddenly looks pink or your black becomes dark green. I love color. It makes me happy. My daughter shares my love for all things colorful. The other day she came out of her room dressed in purple socks, orange leggings, a hot pink skirt and a turquoise shirt. She's quite the fashionista. A lot of my color inspiration comes from my daughter's closet. I wish they would make some of those outfits in grown-up sizes - not that I could get away with actually wearing any of it . But the color palettes are always so much fun! Fabric of any kind is often bursting with color combinations just waiting to be made into a set of beads. In the summer my inspiration comes from my backyard. Stare at a beautiful garde

Reichenbach Aqua RL 4015

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Lampwork Glass Color Review I am not an official color tester for any glass companies, not that I would turn down the opportunity if it was presented . I am just a beadmaker trying to get a handle on the bundles of unorganized and uncategorized glass in my studio. If I am ever to get my act together and determine which colors I absolutely must have in my collection, I need to start taking notes. Since I am taking notes for myself, I thought I might as well share them with everyone else just in case you might find my ramblings interesting or useful. So here is my first color review: Reichenbach Aqua [ RL-4015 ]. In rod form this glass is a very pretty pale aqua with a slightly more greenish tint than Effetre pale aqua. There are really no surprises when melting it and it stays true to color in bead form. I didn't bother to do any reactive testing with silver, sulfured glasses and the like because I was really most interested in the how the glass itself works up, although I bet i

Prodigy - What to do with those Orphan Glass Beads

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Not every bead I make comes out looking beautiful. Shocking. Sad. But true. In fact I actually have 3 different levels of unsatisfactory bead buckets. We have the pee cup - which houses all the cracked and broken beads. I have no idea why I save them. I guess I just don't have the heart to throw them in the trash. Somewhere, somehow they will come in useful for something. No I do not have a hoarding problem. Really. I don't. Then there is the banker box - which contains a multitude of fuglies. These are mostly from my newbie days but the box does seem to be getting fuller, and I am pretty sure that beads cannot reproduce themselves through osmosis so I must be continuing to make them. Lastly, we have the orphan dish. This is home to the beads that are not outright horrid but lack enough interest for me to attempt to replicate them or even make them a matching sibling. These unexciting and unwanted beads go into the dish with all the other abandoned orphan beads hoping someda

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