...At least in my mind I see hints of spring underneath the frozen grass, and flowers, too...
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...I love taking pictures out of a plane window...looking onto a miniature world, where everything is reduced to plain shapes, lines and dots...
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..everything is fresh and green...
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...This tree is a bit ahead of time, since I gave it some green leaves, while the fileds are bare and far away from being green...
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"Open, sesame"...and there are beads;-)....
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...One of my favourite plants...although I donīt have any anymore, because my cats decided itīs their favourite plant, too...
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...flowers on sunny mountain pastures....
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...another amber bead...shaped like a floral....
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...an ancient lily captured in amber;-)...
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...A picture of amber floating in shallow water after a storm, mixed with algae and driftwood...and the air is smelling like seaweed...
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This bead, with its rough surface and odd shape, kind of reminds me of an ancient amphora brought to the surface and still tangled in algae...
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...inspired by some ancient Anasazi paintings...
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...an angel lost his wing...I found it and encased it;-)...
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Another ocean-inspired focal...
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...calm and serene bead in water colors...
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...A similar design to a set I listed a couple of days ago...but I loved it so much, therefore had to make another one... a focal this time...
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...playing with contrasts again...the reflection of a glowing red sunset on ice makes it look like being on fire...without melting it...
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...some aster flowers for fall...
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...a painterly vision of fall...
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Iīm seriously drawn to greens these days...probably because theyīre vanishing bit by bit...but fall is having a finale... still lots of flowers out there...
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In this set I used Supernova as a base...but i didnīt reduce it to blue and green...so it stayed in a beautiful dark purple....
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...trying to capture all the fine lines in colored autumn leaves...
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...colors are changing...
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...illuminating the world in glowing colors...
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Spring starts with some fresh green....
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Playing with Doublehelix Psyche I thought, that these lentils look like balloon fish...so I have them eyes...and tails....
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...one of the most relaxing things...
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..."findings" from the beach....
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...This is what the grey and chilly December weather makes me think of: to take a walk at the beach. Of course....only if some sun is involved......
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...this bead is looking at you;-)....
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...glowing sunset, but the atmosphere is indicating a storm....
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...full of berries and the leaves are gone...
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...Some days ago I noticed, that the ground around the small trees in my street looks dark red...It is covered in berries, blown off by a storm and spread around their trunks in a circle...
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One of my favourite trees....
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...sprinkled with some raindrops...
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...trying to capture a bit of natureīs beauty...
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Another butterfly...hope spring comes soon...
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Inspired by the book title and cover of "river of blue fire" by Tad Williams...but not by the content...I didnīthappen to read the book yet...
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...curled up on a bead...
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I usually do not have trouble parting with beads...lol...but with this one I have...
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No moon in this bead...but the colors somehow indicate a moonlit scenery..
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...trying to add some 3D a different way...
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Another aproach to trees..in a sculptural way...inspired by bonsai trees and some Japanes ink drawings I saw recently...
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...and vibrant colors in the sun...
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...on a summer day...
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...Ok, before somebody else says it, Iīm going to say it myself: yes, this bead definitely looks a little bit pregnant;-)...but itīs just a huge bubble of clear with some flowers in it...
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...Some butterflies are still hiding, dreaming of meadows full of flowers...but their wings are sticking out...
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Happy butterflies...having a garden full of flowers...
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Some monarch butterfly wings transformed into glass...
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...Thereīs a touch of summer in these beads...
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...but not a common kind;-)...mine has blue leaves and pretty blossoms...
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...inspired by a wonderful hike on the island of Madeira...
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...Not exactly the color palette one expects in fall...so it might be a preview for spring... the name of this bead is the latin name of a spring flower...
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...one can dream...
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..they will turn into beautiful butterflies....
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...another version...
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Hope the cherry tree in front of my balcony doesnīt start to bloom in February...Iīve seen some green leaves already....
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Iīve been playing with some new Vetrofond odd lots...love this glass...
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...well, I used Vetrofond Salmon pink;-)...but with some...a lot of...imagination you might see salmons jumping up a waterfall...
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Probably I picked the wrong season for this bead...;-)
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Going out onto the ocean in a little boat, and after a while turning around and looking back ...this is what you might see...a coastline...far far away...
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...as fall can be...
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...I made this bead while it was hot, thinking of some cool place...it worked...lots of rain now;-)...
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Colorful corals in diffuse light...
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...Itīs been a while since I made corals, I almost forgot how much fun it is to play with whimsical shapes like that... Taking pictures of this color combo, on the other hand...;-)...well, I tried...
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Lots of my beads are inspired by ocean themes, sea critters and....corals.
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...wheat, cornflowers, chamomile and poppies...
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...and a whole set of it....
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...Too early in the year for cornflowers? I have a picture in my mind of cornflowers sitting in their seeds dug deep into the earth, and waiting for some sun...
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...a field of summer flowers...
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...This is kind of the shadow of a jellyfish...When I saw my first stinging jellyfish as a kid, I had no idea what it was, but in its beauty it looked like a creature from a fairytale. My next encounter wasnīt that pleasant...lol...
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...Snowdrops are already blooming...hopefully daffodils will be next...
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...Theyīre blooming everywhere...while it is still too cold outside...Iīve spread them all over my home...all the window sills are filled with daffodils...
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...early morning colors....
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And here comes the whole forest;-)....
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...Like a river deviding into smaller rivers in its delta...all meeting the ocean in the end...
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Playing with my new Cattwalk tool...a funky oval lentil...which gives a lot of canvas to paint on...Do you see the dshinn?
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One of these beads doesnīt have a sun, because I burnt my thumb before I could place the dot...lol....
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Iīm hooked on that desert topic...because of a book I am reading...(couple of pages a day...lol)
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There are some already...woohoo...spring!
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...Too early for roses? Well, this one sits in a safety bubble of clear and can weather February...
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...fortunately it doesnīt look like this at all...
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...and a lot of reflections on the sand...
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...The depth in this beads creates an impression of unreal...even some motion that isnīt there...like an enchanted forest...
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Can you tell I love my etching dip recently?
I totally love the smooth surface of etched beads...like pebbles smoothened by the sea...
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Sunset inspired bead...Iīve seen way too many sunsets recently;-)...storm beads are still in the kiln....
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...colors are changing...nature is getting ready for fall...
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All the gardens are full of colors now, red, yellow, orange...and painted leaves mixed in...at least where the gardeners arenīt hunting for every single leave that falls down...
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Yellow leaves drizzling down like golden rain, leaving the branches blank...
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...While making this bead, a little piece of silver foil got into my way, so i simply grabbed it and stuck it onto the bead...melt it in, and forgot about it. After etching, I discovered 2 tiny sparkling dots...that is what is left of the silver, but it looks like a little fen fire...
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...pretty flowers in the fields...
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This set displays polarities...between fire and ice...hot and cold, summer and winter...and fall is somewhere in between...
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...The first flower of this year...a bit too early, but everything is possible in glass...
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way too early, but pretty...
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...I had so much fun making this kind of bead that, I had to make one more...different of course...and maybe more to come...
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Floraīs dress is green...and of course sheīs wearing...beads;-)....
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...I wasnīt thinking of the state "Florida" while making this bead, but of the expression of its name: "flowering, blooming"... It snowed again this morning...therefore Iīm making flower beads to create some balance...
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...and cool air...like very early in the morning...
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...Peeking through a cascade of flowers onto the ocean...sounds like summer...
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Cannot get enough of focals right now...theyīre so much fun!
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...Still colorful leaves everywhere...but falling...
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Some 3-D blossoms....
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...without frogs, cuz theyīre hiding..;-)
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...looking on to a landscape pattern...
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All the brave little flowers already peaking might still find themselves coated with ice in the morning....
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...The trees have almost lost their leaves, empty twigs in frozen air and misty clouds lingering...
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...Itīs been ages that I actally made some round beads...so I just had to sit down and make some...
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...Fields are frozen, but still having colors. The tiny lines in the pictures are, by the way, no fingerprints;-), but twisties of Aion applied onto the surface, lingering like lines of mist...
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...itīs getting colder...
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...Early in the morning the trees are frozen and covered in glaze frost, the light seems to be blueish and the mist over the fields painted pink...too bad it turns into cold and damp a bit later...
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I didnīt really trust this geckos climbing talent...so I gave him a bead to safely climb on;-)...
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...curled up on a bead;-)....
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...and some flowers trapped in it...maybe from ancient times...
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A little goldfish looking for a bigger pond...
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Another fish looking for a bigger pond....
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...some more green to make summer stay a bit....
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