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Tiny Toad Beads Toads are very interesting symbols in most cultures. Abundance, transformation, and longevity are some of their most appealing attributes.

Historically, they were believed to carry a stone in their head which was purported to be a universal medicine.



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Psyche Toad Bead
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A small, friendly and amused toad bead made from Double Helix Psyche glass.

Psyche Toad Bead
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He displays pretty much the full range of color that Psyche can produce.

Psyche Toad Bead
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Yes, he's pretty wee -- tiny atop one fingertip.

Gaia Toad Bead
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A little toad made from Gaia glass. He looks like he just jumped away from a bright waterfall in a dark woodland. (The fairies are still looking for him..... )

Gaia Toad Bead
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Gaia glass gets this pretty lustre from a reduction flame. (Forest pixies love it.)

Gaia Toad Bead
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Small toads have great balance.

Nasturtium Toad Bead
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He's in ur garden..... stealthin' in ur nasturtiums.

Nasturtium Toad Bead
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Bright enough to singe your retinas, this little guy is the color of bright bright nasturtiums.

Nasturtium Toad Bead
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Small, bright, and visually burning the tip of my finger.

Opalino Pink Toad Bead
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O what a curious world, to have created within it a pink toad!

Opalino Pink Toad Bead
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He (she?) waits patiently.

Opalino Pink Toad Bead
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Staring back at me, a pink toad with attitude.

Shiny Tiny Toad Bead
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He's shiny and tiny and mirror-finish like a garden gazing ball.

Shiny Tiny Toad Bead
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Whoa, a toad-mirror.

Shiny Tiny Toad Bead
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Small enough to fit almost anywhere.

Sitting Up Toad Bead
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He looks like he's about to sneak up and tickle somebody.

Sitting Up Toad Bead
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Too bad he's too short to reach much.....

Sitting Up Toad Bead
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Small, but not so small you'd lose him in a nostril (kids, don't try that at home).

Two Tone Toad Bead
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Not two musical tones, but two color tones (unless you're currently experiencing synesthesia...)

Two Tone Toad Bead
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Same glass (Psyche), two colors, depending on how you work it.

Two Tone Toad Bead
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It takes balance.

White Toad Bead
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A simple white toad with blue, blue eyes.

White Toad Bead
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Pale and somewhat Shinto, this is a cute tiny toad bead.

White Toad Bead
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Tiny and bumpily and white, sitting in my fingers.



 Artist:   TerriMayStudios  Contact Artist 
Terri May Studios
My aesthetic is wabi sabi -- a term from Japan that roughly translates to beauty found in imperfection.

Richard R. Powell summarizes by saying "It (wabi-sabi) nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect."

Andrew Juniper claims, "if an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi."

It is also two separate words, with related but different meanings.

Wabi is the kind of perfect beauty that is seemingly-paradoxically caused by just the right kind of imperfection, such as an asymmetry in a ceramic bowl which reflects the handmade craftsmanship, as opposed to another bowl which is perfect, but soul-less and machine-made.

Sabi is the kind of beauty that can come only with age, such as the patina on a very old bronze statue.



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Angelinabeadalina
Wabi-Sabi
Terri, I really enjoyed reading your gallery note, and I can't wait to see more of your work posted in your gallery!
» Posted by Angelinabeadalina on 3/15/2008 5:52:44 AM.
Hagstrom Art Glass
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I love your frogs!!!!
» Posted by HagstromArtGlass on 3/15/2008 7:46:57 PM.

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