Pretty Baubles from Ellen Dooley

Many of you know that I am a lampwork bead addict. I don't make them myself but I have scoured the planet and found a few artists whose work I really like. Ellen Dooley has been in that group for years. She sent me an e-mail about a week ago telling me that she had a few beads that had my name on them. She dropped them in the mail and I got them a earlier this week. My reaction when I opened the package was....well...a kid on Christmas morning would describe it best. These beads are beauties!!! Don't take my word for it....LOOK.....





Now look at them next to some of my bronze work........

The beads are a mix of colors...gold, green, blue, purple and depending on how you hold them to the light and what colors they are up against they look different.

I'm likin' these!!! I think Miss Ellen needs to make some more and put them in her Etsy shop (check it out) for all you who like to combine your metal with glass. These beads would look great with silver or bronze....and great with the new cooper metal clay. Oh la la!!

I am going to make some large bronze medallions this weekend to go with these beads. There will be pics later.