Etched Bombay Sapphire recycled glass

I've just added three new recycled items to the Lampwork > Recycled Blue page of my website. I tried etching some of the beads made from recycled Bombay Sapphire bottles and I was really pleased with how pretty they turned out. The matt finish is really soft and lets the core of the bead shows through like a little bulb is lighting it up from inside.

There is also a pair of earrings made with pearls on the page I link to above and a bracelet to match.

Reasons to be cheerful

Today we have heard from a good friend of ours. He had a lump removed from under his arm several days ago, just before a holiday in Cornwall. The holiday didn't work out too well, apparently it was wet (that horrible fine mizzle) every day; they ended up coming back a couple of days early. So it was fantastic for him and his family to get news today that the tissue was benign - sounds like it has cheered them up no end. That kind of thing really puts problems back into perspective!

Speaking personally, I am pleased with a new shape of recycled glass beads which I made last week. I took the photographs last week but have only just got round to adding them to the website - here are a couple of thumbnails. They're kind of a flattened rectangle/cylinder. The earrings are really l-o-o-o-ng!

I'm going to make some beads of this shape in the lovely blue Bombay sapphire glass this week.