{"id":20,"date":"2008-12-12T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynneglazzard.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2008\/12\/12\/funny-beads\/"},"modified":"2008-12-12T05:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T10:55:00","slug":"funny-beads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/2008\/12\/12\/funny-beads\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny beads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AiA7HHbtlYk\/SUJFyUvwIII\/AAAAAAAAAWw\/wzWnVX28Cyc\/s1600-h\/Bird-bead-1.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AiA7HHbtlYk\/SUJFyUvwIII\/AAAAAAAAAWw\/wzWnVX28Cyc\/s200\/Bird-bead-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> I have decided that I need to try and few more techniques and that now is a good time to attempt this. So yesterday I made a couple of beads masking and pulling dots to try and create a pattern. I also made my first attempt at a bird bead &#8211; inspired by all the birds I had been looking at in Whitby Museum. Unfortunately I dropped it on the concrete floor of my studio after photographing it and have shattered it&#8230;&#8230; not that it was very good, just would have been nice to keep the first one! I have attempted another but it is in the kiln annealing. <\/p>\n<p>I have also made my first hollow bead, again not very good but at <a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AiA7HHbtlYk\/SUJE_-vOUQI\/AAAAAAAAAWg\/aXjmmJIgJ3A\/s1600-h\/Hollow-bead-1.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AiA7HHbtlYk\/SUJE_-vOUQI\/AAAAAAAAAWg\/aXjmmJIgJ3A\/s200\/Hollow-bead-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>least I understood the process and managed to achieve a complete bead. It has a few stray threads of glass inside along with bits of bead release that dropped inside as I removed it from the mandrel (and I have no idea how to get it out).<\/p>\n<p>This has all give me food for thought and I won&#8217;t be getting any work done for the next few days as I am going down to Warwick to stay on the canal boat for the weekend, then Tuesday visiting Nottingham University to look at it as a possible venue for the Guild of Enamellers Annual Conference in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have decided that I need to try and few more techniques and that now is a good time to attempt this. So yesterday I made a couple of beads masking and pulling dots to try and create a pattern. I also made my first attempt at a bird bead &#8211; inspired by all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/lynneglazzard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}