DragonJools

Anyone who has read the Anne McCaffery DragonRider series will see the title "Shards" as a curse - the exclamation used in the bo...

I like CiM 788 Mink for making ponies - it's a very nice brown, and quite unlike any other brown. I have blogged it before. However - ...

And your vocabulary builder for the day is: De-wonkify. The acting of salvaging a bead that has gotten off-centre, and/or off-round. "...

Yet another burst of pinkness - this one seems a bit more intense - possibly because of having some opaques. The working notes say: Blend - ...

Hey - another frit that I don't hate! I might be getting better at this! This one is called Groovy Swirl, and the working notes from the...

A student asked me about implosions, and my response was - "Actually, I suck at them." But - nothing like a challenge - so I'v...

Those of you who follow me over on The Beadful Life know that I just got a new camera. I'm still trying to figure out all the bells and...

I'm not a pink person - no one who has ever met me would characterize me as a "girly girl" - thank heavens. But I use a lot of...

The community of lampworkers/flameworkers/torchworkers - call us what you will - is small, but closely knit. We need to be - an artist's...

Fairy Dust - a soft, blue green blend. Working notes say: Fairy Dust blend/opaque ... hushed and delicate shades of soft blue, aqua and warm...

Well, this surprised me, but it's not a bad surprise. I was expecting a metallic on metallic effect - but what I got was quite different...

Hey - I might finally be onto something with the frit. More results I like! First up, the working notes say: Violet Storm: Blend/Transparent...

Taking the same technique from last Monday - when I finally had some success with the frit - I thought I'd try it again, but change all...

New magazine! Printed in Germany - this is an English translated version of a German magazine. It's way cool. Apparently - according to ...

This came about directly because of my whining about not being able to get effects I like from the frits. Funnily enough - it came at me in ...

See - here is more of why I suck at frit. I wanted to love this one. I really did. Others do such amazing stuff with it. Me - not so much. H...