I have added five new products to the website today all under the lampwork section.

I'm really quite excited about the colour combination of amber, turquoise and coral. The coral isn't real coral - I don't use animal products at all in my designs and the oceans of the world are under enough threat already without people making beads out of the real stuff so these are my own handmade coral coloured lampwork beads - they're really very simple to make beads just being donut shaped but such a pretty colour!

I am also thrilled with the Deep Oceans products, I also have some beads set aside for a necklace but I want to include some swarovski crystals but I don't have any in the colour that I want.  Indicolite is going to go perfectly so I have ordered some up and they should be here very soon so watch this space!

I have made some more exciting stripey coral coloured beads as you can see to the right, they are rather jazzy aren't they? They're really more orange than coral, I have encased them using pale amber coloured glass  I picked up the tip on how to achieve this colour from Sarah Hornik's excellent E-book about colour). I have a perfect top for them to go with so I am going to have to make some into jewellery for me (as per usual!)

	In fact, I've been going a bit stripey altogether this week - here are some more bead creations that are destined to have more made of them. The organic etched ones below have already been turned into a very nice pendant and pair of earrings which I will photograph another day.