Here are some photographs of the pink beads I was talking moaning about yesterday. In actual fact I have found two experiments that I am happy with and will go into production with.

The first bead above shows a round pink bead made with Twilight frit from Glass Diversions but note when I made a set of lentil shaped ones which turned out to be unusable because the size isn't consistent, there are some black lines in it which aren't evident in the round one. I guess it was just a fluke when I made the round one that I didn't pick up any of the black bits before, I quite like both beads but prefer it without the black lines and so I will have to go through the frit and pick out all the black bits when I want to make some of these!

You can see from the photograph of the jar of frit that there are black bits in there but isn't it amazing how this frit (which gives more of an impression of turquoise) produced such a pink bead? My jewellery customers often find it puzzling when I tell them that the colour of glass before it's heated and annealed in the kiln is sometimes very different from what comes out!

This bead is from my crystal press. I have had this press for some time which I purchased from Tuffnell Glass. I need to do more with it but I think this is definitely a success and so I shall be making more of these as well.

I have this evening ordered another press called the Kalera triple press which makes rectangular pillows. It should come on Friday so that's something else to look forward to. The week is picking up!