Tulips

Yesterday I bought myself these beautiful red tulips for my workbench and they're doing a great job of jollying up the shed. Red tulips are my absolute favourite flowers.

I've spent most of the weekend working so I've not really got any news to speak of. I'll be back in the morning with the last of the current CiM glass testing findings.

CiM Testing: 'Meadow'

What a wonderful grassy green CiM's 'Meadow' is. It's such a happy colour. You can read more about what I think about it over on my Tumblr.

It's been quite a sunny day here today but from what I've seen, a lot of you have snow. I want snow. Maybe we'll get snow. Perhaps. PLEASE? But yes, we had sunshine today and I took this photo of some daffodils dancing in it. They were loving it.

And in shed news... I have new didymium safety glasses. For about seven years I've been wearing the clumpy, too-big ones I got when I first started lampworking. I did used to have a pair like these new ones I've got that I wore for a couple of years but all of a sudden one of the lenses fell out, so I went back to wearing the My First Didys and kept saying "I must get new didys" every time they fell off my face.

But hurrah! I finally did get new ones and they're lightweight and lovely. They're 'Downtown' ones from Tuffnell Glass, in case you're interested in purple-tinted eye safety.

CiM Testing: 'Musk'

I'm back with more beads. These ones are made in CiM 'Musk', a kind of greenish-yellow with a touch of pale amber-brown to it. I'm not overly-keen on this glass. You can read more about my thoughts on it over on my Tumblr, if you like.

CiM Testing: 'Ceylon' and 'Slate'

Morning! I'm still working my way through my bundle of new Creation is Messy glass. I've just added posts about 'Ceylon' (above) and 'Slate' (below) to my Tumblr.

The sun is shining here in Cambridge which is a bit different to yesterday. By noon we'd had a bit of sun, some rain, a blast of wet, floppy snow, some wind, a few hailstones and then more rain. A cocktail of weather, it was. I'll leave you with my own ray of glassy sunshine in the form of this 'Lemon Curd' pendant.

Have a good Thursday. I'll probably be back later today with more CiM beads to show you.

CiM Testing: 'Jet Stream', 'African Violet', 'Byzantium' and 'Cleopatra'

I ran out out of propane yesterday and they're not delivering a refill until tomorrow so I spent today cleaning, photographing and writing about beads over on my Tumblr.

Heart and spacers in CiM 'Jet Stream'

Spacers in CiM 'African Violet'

Spacers in CiM 'Byzantium'

Blown glass vessel made in CiM 'Cleopatra'

'Cleopatra' is a very saturated transparent purple

I also made a Garland chain bracelet using the African Violet and Byzantium. It's in my shop.

I'm going to go and not stare at my laptop screen now. My eyes feel all annoyed from doing so all day.

Goodnight!