What are your favorite lampwork beads?

Okay, I'm asking because I have been making what I like but I'm trying to
add some new things to my site. So, what type of lampwork beads do you
like?

Here are some examples:
florals
vessels
sculptural
rounds
squares
bicones
lots of silver
lots of frits


--
Starlia Klopman
www.klopmanstudios.com

Yes, all of the below.

Diana
;-)

"starlia" wrote in message
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Okay, I'm asking because I have been making what I like but I'm trying to
add some new things to my site. So, what type of lampwork beads do you
like?

Here are some examples:
florals
vessels
sculptural
rounds
squares
bicones
lots of silver
lots of frits


--
Starlia Klopman
www.klopmanstudios.com

Me too, although I'm not into just frits on the surface. I like to pull
reduction frit into stringer and use it that way.

"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
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Yes, all of the below.

Diana
;-)

"starlia" wrote in message
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Okay, I'm asking because I have been making what I like but I'm trying
to
add some new things to my site. So, what type of lampwork beads do you
like?

Here are some examples:
florals
vessels
sculptural
rounds
squares
bicones
lots of silver
lots of frits


--
Starlia Klopman
www.klopmanstudios.com

Well, yes, that goes without saying.
Diana


"starlia" wrote in message
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Me too, although I'm not into just frits on the surface. I like to pull
reduction frit into stringer and use it that way.

"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
...
Yes, all of the below.

Diana
;-)

"starlia" wrote in message
...
Okay, I'm asking because I have been making what I like but I'm trying
to
add some new things to my site. So, what type of lampwork beads do
you
like?

Here are some examples:
florals
vessels
sculptural
rounds
squares
bicones
lots of silver
lots of frits


--
Starlia Klopman
www.klopmanstudios.com

florals, florals and then (in third place) I like florals.


Becki
"In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling
difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows

starlia wrote:
Okay, I'm asking because I have been making what I like but I'm
trying to add some new things to my site. So, what type of lampwork
beads do you like?

I especially like vessels but I'm not in a position to buy much of anything
right now...

I'm not sure I have a favorite bead style. Some just call to me and those
are the ones I try to work with.

Put your joy and love and energy into them and it will show and they will
sell... not what you wanted to hear, but it's what I think.

Pam

--
Pam Brisse
The Blue Between - handcrafted jewelry and bead art
http://www.bluebetween.com

"starlia" wrote in message
...
Okay, I'm asking because I have been making what I like but I'm trying to
add some new things to my site. So, what type of lampwork beads do you
like?

Here are some examples:
florals
vessels
sculptural
rounds
squares
bicones
lots of silver
lots of frits


--
Starlia Klopman
www.klopmanstudios.com

blues, greens, ocean-y, clear encased...boro...

oh, and purple with teal or aqua...

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized
LC in Sunny So Cal
Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

I do put my love and energy into what I make, but I'm trying to open new
doors and make myself learn more things. I really, really hated doing
florals, but I love them. I still just look at them and just drool.
However, I hated doing them. Then I made myself sit down and do them over
and over and over, until I got them down. I'm still learning, but at least
I have some I'm proud of. They will be on my website later.

"Pam" wrote in message
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I'm not sure I have a favorite bead style. Some just call to me and those
are the ones I try to work with.

Put your joy and love and energy into them and it will show and they will
sell... not what you wanted to hear, but it's what I think.

Pam

--
Pam Brisse
The Blue Between - handcrafted jewelry and bead art
http://www.bluebetween.com

"starlia" wrote in message
...
Okay, I'm asking because I have been making what I like but I'm trying
to
add some new things to my site. So, what type of lampwork beads do you
like?

Here are some examples:
florals
vessels
sculptural
rounds
squares
bicones
lots of silver
lots of frits


--
Starlia Klopman
www.klopmanstudios.com

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Okay, I'm asking because I have been making what I like but I'm trying to
add some new things to my site. So, what type of lampwork beads do you
like?

Well, I like BIG beads, focal-sized -- 20mm or more. (But then, I work with
larger beads in general, so that's no surprise.) Shape is less critical than
size, although rondelles are harder to work with as focals. But round, tab,
bicone, lentil, cylinder -- all those work well.

I like encased beads, especially encased dichro -- that gives it wonderful
depth.

I like geometric patterns and swirls more than I like florals, as a rule. But I
also like florals if they *really* fit the colors and style of the bead.

I like cubes! Especially Karen's cubes, even though she keeps putting flowers
on all of them. g But if you want to see a set of beads where flowers REALLY
worked, her "Fairy Dice" is the canonical example.

I like sculptural work, but prefer the realistic variety to caricatures.

Generally speaking, I'm not fond of bumpy beads. But clear bumps to mimic water
drops on a botanical sort of bead can work well.

I like vessels to look at, but I can't quite picture how one would fit into one
of my pieces, so I tend not to buy them.

Celine

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