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Joanne figuring things out.
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The group looking at some beads.
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Melanie, Maria, and Elizabeth
oooh's and aaah's
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Susan explaining her beads.
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Richard checking out the supplies. |
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Michelle brought in her new stand
to
show us. She bought it off E-Bay.
love those Boobie Beads.
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Deb getting ready for the demo.
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Heidi checking out some of the
great books Joanne has.
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Susan starts the demo. She uses a
mandrel that has a hole in the side of it.
She plugs the end of the mandrel with bead release. Here she
is heating her rod.
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Susan builds a hollow bead around
the hole in the mandrel. She does not worry about how it looks
at the start. She says
it all works out in the end.
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Once she has sealed the hollow
she quickly slides her hand down to cover the hole in the mandrel,
if you do not do this your hollow will collapse.
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Susan heats the bead and blows through the end of the mandrel
to expand the hollow. She reheats the bead in the area she wants
to blow out and then blows again.This action blows out a section
of the bead.
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Once she has her hole in the side
of the bead she returns the bead to the heat and heats the edges
of her blown out hole.
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Using some tweezers she shapes
the edges of the hole. Depending on what she is using the bead
for decides how she is going to shape it.
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The finished bead.
What a great shell.
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Melanie is heating some tweezers
to create a new tool, as Deb Tarry looks on.
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She heats them up and then twists
them so now the flat edges of the
tweezers are on the sides.
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The finished tool. They still need
to be ground down to get the fine thin edge they need.
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