OOOOOO I Like These!

These just came out of the kiln this morning!

Adding another color of glaze under the crystal glaze really makes a difference!

I hated this glaze yesterday!  It looked like gross pond scum and I wasn't going to ever use it again.  But then I decided to give it another chance and added another color under it and now I love it! L.O.V.E. It!!! :O)

Happy Happy Friday!

New Shapes and Glazes...

So I made a bunch of these hourglass type beads...

 then I was thinking they might be cute with a little sparkle of size 15 seed beads around them...

 The kiln was full of blues and greens this morning...

 I'm still obsessed with this green.  I really do love it!

 some shank buttons...

 Cabochons with and without a hole.  I've been making a lot of cabochons lately.

 Some GIANT lentil beads...

 These suckers are B.I.G.! (about 29mm)

 And I bought these crystal glazes about a year ago and finally got around to glazing some pieces with them.  Some I love - some I will have to play around with with other glazes and see if I can come up with a combination that I like.  The three down the center I love as is but I will still play around with them - I like to mix glazes.

CYBER MONDAY SALE!

Don't forget, today is the last day for the SALE in my shop!  Be sure to enter coupon code BOCCYBER and get 20% off your purchases!  The sale ends tonight!

Time For A Sale!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!  It's time for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales!  The sale will run the entire weekend Friday - Monday!!!!  Use coupon code BOCCYBER at checkout and receive 20% off your purchase from my Etsy shop!  There are lots of shops participating in the Beads of Clay sale!  Click on the box below to see all the participating shops!

So many choices of fantastic handmade jewelry components and beautiful jewelry pieces!  Be sure to check out the Beads of Clay blog for lists of all participating shops - many offering discounts and giveaways this weekend!!!
Happy Shopping!!!!

Beads! I Love Them...

Opened the kiln this morning to some super duper fabulous beads if I do say so myself! :O) So I am leaving right now to go to the studio and glaze a bazillion more in these three colors because I might have to hoard some of these!

Shop update tonight...

Today I am going to clean the holes of all these pieces that I glazed over the past few days and get my kiln loaded.  Hoping to have several new batches glazed to list before Thanksgiving.

I also finally got a chance to photograph all the pieces that I glazed last week and will be listing about 45 items tonight in my Etsy shop.  I'll post to my facebook page when they are up so be sure to follow my page to get updates as well as the information on all the sales I will be having for the Holidays!  Have a great sunny Saturday!!

Lots and Lots of New Pieces...

I know, I was MIA AGAIN! I'm sorry.  I don't know why I haven't been here - I'm determine to post at least 3 times a week!  Anyway, since I haven't posted in over a month!!! I have lots of photos to show you...

First, I love this owl.  I will be making a lot of these.

 I've started making some winter/holiday pieces...

 Something is seriously wrong with one of my red glazes!  It came out like this...

It should look like this...

At first I hated it, but I kind of like how it came out on this one.  The more I look at it, the more I like it.  I'm still going to replace that red glaze, but I think I might keep the old one too.

 Do these look like candy to you?  I was going for candy, but I'm not sure about these.

 I love flowers so I'm pretty happy with these (especially like the dark blue pendant)

 made some horse pendants - who doesn't love horses?!

 Playing around with cut outs...

 Made a lot of starfish pieces.  At Bead Fest in August I had a lot of customers asking for them so I've been making a lot more.

 and I live in Maryland so I made a lot of crab pendants...

 I made this snowman stamp last week.  I like how it came out.  I have a lot more yet to fire...

 Some other random pieces that came out of the kiln this morning.

 This is going to be a bracelet...

 And I love love love these little flowers!  I can't make enough of them!  They are my new obsession...

 so cute!

 These are "flowers" too.  I thought they would be nice with some clusters of the tiny ones on each side...

 I like them clustered...

 and I've been trying to come up with some new ring pieces.  I like these, but I'm not sure how they will work.  They may be too bulky. When I made them I was thinking wire wrapped or beaded or something? not sure - now that these have been glazed I'm going to play around with them and see if/what I need to change.  Do you like them?  Would you want to work with something like this?

 Here is another version I have been making...

 This is the only one to be glazed yet, but they are curved to fit your finger.  Again, I was thinking beaded or wire work.  What do you think?  Bad idea?

 I've also been doing a lot of beading with seed beads lately.  This bracelet is almost finished - just a few more rounds and then I'll close it up.

 It's a bit addictive!  It feeds my love of color.

So, I promise to post more - I have been working on so many new things that I want to share with you as soon as they are glazed!  I really would like some feedback on those ring pieces.  If you have an idea of how to use them let me know!  I'll send one to you if you promise to show photos of the finished piece and tell me what you like and what you want changed about them.  Have a happy Sunday!  I'm going to try to get the new pieces photographed tomorrow if the sun cooperates.  I'll be listing as soon as possible.  My Etsy shop has been pretty neglected lately.