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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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