Attempts, Failures and Near Misses

Well, nobody likes to admit a failure but lately I've become at one with the fact that they are going to happen.

As Mahatma Gandhi probably said "Jess, it'ok to make mistakes, but try to work out where you went wrong so that you won't make that same mistake twice. Damn, you're a good-looking chick."

So with this in mind, I went and looked in the mirror, and I tend to agree with the guy.

So, without further ado, here are some pictures of stuff.

Twisties

Here is a picture of some twisties that somebody else made

Here's the link to the page I got this from http://www.flickr.com/photos/51423372@N00/favorites/?view=ju

 I'm working on getting them this perfect but clearly this will take time.

These are beads I made with twisties while I was practicing...they aren't very good

Square Dots

This is one technique I'm really struggling with - making round dots melt into eachother so they look like stripes or squares. Here's several failed attempts and a very near miss at getting it right!

Encased Florals

I'll get this one of these days. The trick is to make sure that you've covered the whole flower with clear glass before you melt it smooth but then you have to be careful not to let the glass get too hot otherwise it pulls your design around and ruins it. The good thing about this is, if you pretend you weren't trying to do something nifty, the bead looks pretty cool. Otherwise, Boo! Hiss!

See if you can tell which is which in these attempts.

I'm sure that with time, practice and patience I will perfect these techniques but until then I think I'll continue to play :)