Beads, bracelet and a little giveaway

I can't quite capture the real-life sunshiny vibrancy of this orangey-yellow glass in a photo. It's a very summery colour and I've paired it with lavender-blue here. There's no encasing which always makes me feel a bit weird because the thing I love most about glass beads is the way the light shines through it but sometimes it's good to keep things really simple. Also, a lot of yellow glasses do not tolerate encasing and they can crack. I'm unsure if this particular yellow is a fussy bugger one and obviously an easy way to find out would be to actually make an encased bead with it, but it's been too hot in the shed to squander limited torch time on making 'risky' beads that might crack - that's a cooler weather task.

These are Effetre pastel yellow 418 and lavender blue/pastel ink blue 247. The beads are currently available in my shop and I can etch them and/or make them into a bracelet for you if you like. All details can be found here.

I made another batch of 'Hydrangea' spotties:

One of my customers opted for a bracelet upgrade for these which is great because now I have some photographs to show you exactly what these beads look like made wearable.

If you fancy your own 'Hydrangea' spotties bracelet you can order one here. The beads can also be purchased loose so you can do your own thing with them

I had a couple of leftover lavender ones from this batch and I thought I'd offer them as a giveaway here on my blog. I've not done a giveaway for donkey's yonks!

To have a shot at winning this pair of beads with coordinating spacers you need to do the following:

• Be living in the UK (apologies to non-UK people)
• Send me a message using this form: https://www.beadsbylaura.co.uk/contactme.html
• You can just type 'BLOG GIVEAWAY' in the message box but if you want to write me a longer message, please feel free - just get across to me that you want to enter the giveaway

I will put all the names in a hat and draw a winner on the evening of Friday 1st August. I won't be using your email address or details for anything else and your message will be deleted once the draw is over and done with.

Good luck!