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The "word on the street" (ha ha) is that Fire Lotus is yummy and easy to use - easier than some of it's cousins. I think I m...

 Cobblestone - nice colour for elephants. A nice warm shade of grey, tends to look different depending on the colours around it - see phot...

CiM's Gypsy is a dark, dark transparent purple , so dark, in fact, that the rod just looks black. And a bead made with it and nothing el...

Meet CiM Jellyfish - a colour shift glass like the colour in commercial beads known as "Alexandrite" - and like the Effetre 081 Da...

Effetre 420 Coral - Firecracker variant. Maybe someday I will understand why this colour - 420 - Coral - comes out different every time. ...

 Goldstone stringer. Here's the case for making your own, versus buying it premade. Encasing with a colour. These beads are a ba...

I've always wanted to write a "Bead of the Month" column, but the reality is, I just couldn't jam another commitment into ...

I know, I'm sorry - I went from regular posts to - Kablooie. Nothing. Sorry about that. I've been occupied the last month with a l...

Ok - this isn't glass - but - damn - this is cool. It IS fire - so it's close enough. This is a method of visualizing sounds using...

Here is an excellent, short video about drilling glass. It is specific to "sea glass" - but the principle is the same. If you have...

I've talked about Prince Rupert's Drops before , but it's just soooo cool - here they are again investigated by Smarter Every Da...

Poseidon, or Poseidan, as I keep misspelling it, so if I throw that in there, I'll find it next time I search - anyway - CiM Poseidon is...

Here, I was doing some torture testing - pushing the envelope with the Uroboros clear. This is a base of that purple maybe-Lauscha, rolled...

I usually just plunge into the dichro and use it, and forget to mark what I was using, so I don't often review dichro. This is from Ri...

Another orange from CiM - not too far in hue from Orange Crush, but it is an true opaque, and thereby doesn't have the same luminous qua...

Wowsers. If you crush on orange - then this is your colour! This is CiM Orange Crush, a translucent/ transparent/ opaque striking orange. ...

Just another test of silver reactions. This is a base of Effetre clear. Encased in Double Helix Pysche, reduced, and then encased again on...

Uroroboros - I know them principally for their System 98 glass - 98 CoE. However, they also make a 104 CoE clear. So - let's give it...

CiM Flax is a pale, transparent, golden yellow champagne colour.  Here are three self-coloured beads in Flax.  And because the grey ba...

I have to admit, I had already seen a preview of what Jupiter Storm can do over on the Creation is Messy website - so I wasn't really su...