My random week continued with a couple more bullseye beads that I’m not really bothering to post. However, yesterday I brought out my 104 again and decided to work on encasing.
One encasing exercise was a globby bead with lots of silvered ivory and some deep transparent purple (I thought it was Helix Psyche, but I was mistaken, or else it just didn’t react). I encased it and pressed it in the lentil mold. It turned out quite nicely, as the encasing was even on both sides.
The second encased bead was blueberry-white Moretti with purple free-form stringer, swirled with a dragging tool and encased. The bubble action is very nice. The shape — sorta iffy, but good enough for something or the other I’m sure.
Next I turned to the silvered ivory stringer pages in Passing the Flame and decided to try the nebula bead. I’m very happy with the way it turned out for a number of reasons. Foremost is that the shape of the bead turned out quite nice. Second, the colors that came out were unexpected. There is some gold in there, and midnight blue. I wonder if this is because my silver palladium is old and a little tarnished. If so, I will always keep some back to age thusly.
