Saturn Beads

Saturn beads are just ornery when you want to take their picture.  They wiggle all over and will not lay nice and neat for the photo.

Etched Beads

 I so want to make these beads in every single color I can.  I love them they are small but bigger than a spacer.

They have a colored core under clear and then are etched.  They just have such a wonderful soft look to them.

Silvered Ivory.....

.........accent beads in yummy bright colors.

I have also been...........

...........etching beads like a crazy person.  Seems like for ever 3 beads I make I etch 2 of them. 

Earth tones.

Earth tones made and ready.

And then there was etching.

 Of course some of the beads from yesterday had to be etched. I love the way they almost seem to glow. These are all the little Saturn style beads I make and use so much of the time.

I so love the pale amber and black together.

Discs to go with my Prehistoric Series of Beads

Last year in January I started on a series of beads I called Prehistoric and I even got a couple of necklaces made with the pieces You can find Wilma Steps Out and Saber Tooth here.  I got that far with the series and things happened and as you know I was gone a lot so nothing further got done with the series.  It is January again and I am back to working on these beads and had to have some discs.  This first batch I am going to call River Stones and they are thick and and have that yummy shape that happens when you have water wash over a stone for years. 

Next up are some lovely Barnacle covered discs. I really like their bumpy edges.

And lastly for today we have a batch of simple one color discs.  All three styles are of course etched because Prehistoric just makes me think of the soft earth feel of etched glass.

Etching the morning away.

I spent over an hour this morning etching beads. I have a really large pile drying on the counter.  I even had to put the spoon in the picture so you could tell how big a pile it was.  A bunch of these are for special orders but there will be plenty left to list on Etsy. https://www.etsy.com/shop/tanyamcguire