DragonJools

CiM Fiddlehead - which I don't see at this writing on their page of green, but may well be listed by the time you read this. Without ...

Just some swirly, leafy eye candy. Don't forget, you can mix those ends of rods together. Stick one on another like you were starting ...

There you go - the holy grail of turquoise - one that doesn't develop that grey metallic lustre. It does lighten a little with heating...

CiM classifies this colour in with their "reds" , but this is a brown, if every I saw one. And a lovely, swirly milk chocolate it...

On the top - CiM Primrose, and on the bottom CiM Chai. The Chai is an earthier colour, and you could call both of them "skin tones...

Not a new colour, I reviewed it last in 2008 . CiM lists it in with their browns, and certainly - some people are getting a much darker col...

CiM Primrose is all kinds of yummy pink-sugar goodness. What a pretty, useful, opaque pink - for those, of course, who like pink. I did f...

CiM Whisper is a translucent, moonstone-type glass, that sucks up the light. (Not to be confused with Effetre's Whisper .) Held up ri...

CiM Trapeze is a wonderfully transparent medium lavender - that I get the feeling is supposed to colour shift. It has that colour about it ...

Hey now - I really like this one. Off mandrel cabochon. I really like the way this came out. Almost like a poppy. Woohoo!

And here is yet another "c'mon baby light my fire" red from CiM. Think Valentine's day for this one, and a super-bright ...

Another red from CiM - this is Cinnamon Jelly. This is another, super bright intense red. The unworked rod, to my eye, in artificial ligh...

Continuing with the theme of fiery colours - this is Creation is Messy's Poppy. This is a super-intense red that appears to be trans...

So in a head-to-head comparison of these three newest reds - which wins? Well - when it comes to colour - we all win, but here they are, s...

For ease of comparison, here is Effetre's Dark Zucca (foreground) shown with CiMs Tiger Lily. The finished beads are virtually iden...

For contrast with Effetre's Dark Zucca - CiM's new Tiger Lily is almost the exact same colour, but the colour of the unworked rod is...

Effetre's new Dark Zucca is a dark orange that gets, like most of Effetre's yellow/orange/red palette, gets darker when worked. ...

I use twisties a lot for the iris pattern of my Dragoneyes - but frit works just as well. I was taking a little trip through the packages of...

You have to try this, I was told. The packet of glass was labelled "Buffy." I have a dog named Buffy, you see. Although she is...