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Elizabeth looking through beads
while her friend looks on.
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Melanie watches while Stephanie
checks out her beads.
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The girls are getting excited
about all the beautiful beads. |
Some of Stephanie's gorgeous beads. |
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Joanne gets prepared for her demo.
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Joanne's preparing her glass |
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Melanie, Leslie and Maria watching
Joanne with their cool shades.
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Aimee, Stephanie and Naz
watch closely as Joanne makes a large gather in clear boro. |
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Joanne flattens the end of
the the gather creating a maria - ready for some decoration |
The decorating begins.
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Joanne adds some cool colour
to the maria.
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Joanne explains how the implosion
theory works. |
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After superheating the decorated
maria is pushed flat again
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Superheating the implosion again.
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A close-up of the implosion
coming together. |
Now Joanne adds a dark
background colour.
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The implosion is now superheated
to round out the front.
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Clear glass is used to form a loop
to turn the implosion into a pendant. |
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The added glass will be turned
into a loop. |
Shaping the loop just so .
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Getting the hole just
so.
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And a final heating to make
sure the loop is well attached. |
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Ta da...the finished pendant...great
job Joanne.
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Joanne is now going to demonstrate
a mushroom marble.
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Stephanie, Aimee, Naz and
Leslie are enjoying the demo.
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Joanne punties up to take
the marble off the rod. |
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Naz watches as the marble
gets a final fire polish. |
Voila, the finished mushroom marble. |
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Elizabeth, Maria and Melanie try
their hand at marbles and implosions
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Maria's getting into it too. |
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A lovely mushroom pendant. |
A nice round mushroom marble |
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Melanie's made a lovely tube bead. |
And here are the beads for
the exchange. Beautiful! |
