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Lampwork => Borosilicate => Topic started by: ♥♥Tan♥♥ on November 23, 2010, 08:39:06 PM

Title: I made marbles
Post by: ♥♥Tan♥♥ on November 23, 2010, 08:39:06 PM
No pics yet, just wanted to tell you ;D
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Post by: Jolene on November 23, 2010, 08:40:41 PM
Fabola! Looking forward to seeing them ;D
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Post by: ♥♥Tan♥♥ on November 23, 2010, 08:42:32 PM
I can't stop fondling them, I feel like a dirty marble perv :D
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Post by: garishglobes on November 23, 2010, 08:43:29 PM
Awwww.....I wanted piccies!!  ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Redhotsal on November 23, 2010, 08:45:03 PM
Briliant!
I've lost all mine..... :P
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Post by: ♥♥Tan♥♥ on November 23, 2010, 08:45:50 PM
I lost one in my lap Sal, then onto the rug, then across the tiles and I STILL finished it, imagine doing that with the soft stuff!!
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Post by: garishglobes on November 23, 2010, 08:49:14 PM
If you have burn marks you can often steel wool them off afterwards... I've done that with burnt lino marks. Less good for rug burns though.
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Post by: beadysam on November 23, 2010, 08:50:57 PM
Tan, are you telling porkies again?  I need to see proof hun.... :P
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Post by: ♥♥Tan♥♥ on November 23, 2010, 08:58:38 PM
Not today but soon...........
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Post by: julieHB on November 23, 2010, 09:01:46 PM
Ooooooooh!  :)
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Post by: pixiewillow on November 23, 2010, 09:10:03 PM
Quote from: Tan on November 23, 2010, 08:39:06 PM
No pics yet, just wanted to tell you ;D
That is just so mean!!! get the camera out woman!
Title: Re: I made marbles
Post by: shaz on November 23, 2010, 09:17:26 PM
Quote from: garishglobes on November 23, 2010, 08:49:14 PM
If you have burn marks you can often steel wool them off afterwards... I've done that with burnt lino marks. Less good for rug burns though.

Ohhhh long time since I knew rug burns LOL
Title: Re: I made marbles
Post by: SilverGems89 on November 23, 2010, 09:22:01 PM
oooooooh i want one of Tan's marbles (rug burns or no) then at least when people start asking where she lost them i can say i have one for safe keeping  ;) ;D
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Post by: ScarletLeonard on November 23, 2010, 10:01:42 PM
I need to see them too.

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Post by: Lush! on November 23, 2010, 10:06:14 PM
No way!

Don't believe you ....  ;)
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Post by: fionaess on November 23, 2010, 10:54:43 PM
Woooo hoooo... where are the pics !!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: Chameleon on November 24, 2010, 07:33:47 AM
pics pics pics ....  ;D ;D
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Post by: dangerousbead on November 24, 2010, 11:51:28 AM
Being thick now, how do you make a marble? I'm impressed though, with or without pics, pref with :)
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Post by: Steampunkglass on November 24, 2010, 12:57:22 PM
Yup, I'm intrigued too, we need pictures!
BTW Brasso also takes off some of those annoying 'floor debris and melted carpet/floor varnish' stains too, but does take a while to polish them off with it!
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Post by: mirri marie on November 24, 2010, 01:18:42 PM
Tan, you are a tease  ;) show us some piccies, pretty please  ;D
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Post by: garishglobes on November 24, 2010, 01:34:34 PM
Jane, here's a marble demo from Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va4z6Bk6Qj4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va4z6Bk6Qj4)  :)
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Post by: JaySpangles on November 24, 2010, 06:27:50 PM
Quote from: Redhotsal on November 23, 2010, 08:45:03 PM
Briliant!
I've lost all mine..... :P
:D :D :D :D :D :D
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Post by: DragonflyLynne on November 24, 2010, 08:09:47 PM
Pictures please!!!  ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: ScarletLeonard on November 24, 2010, 11:17:14 PM
Yes Tan you've kept us waiting long enough :)
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Post by: dangerousbead on November 25, 2010, 12:29:33 PM
Quote from: garishglobes on November 24, 2010, 01:34:34 PM
Jane, here's a marble demo from Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va4z6Bk6Qj4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va4z6Bk6Qj4)  :)
Thanks Emma, can't see me making one of those on a HH in a million years : )
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Post by: ♥♥Tan♥♥ on November 25, 2010, 01:56:56 PM
Ok, I feel as if I should be posting in the boro thread but am waaaayyy not good enough yet so shall have a little hoggy on my ownsome. I had clear, just under  half an inch of what I think was crayon yellow and some black and purple frit and some butterscotch frit in the bottom of a vase.......don't ask.

So now, you have to excuse the fact that there are really terrible air bubbles that look like cracks and the fact that the colours are a bit naff but do feel free to swoon at their wonderful roundess ;D

(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s276/dybyk/DSCF1001-15.jpg)(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s276/dybyk/DSCF1002-16.jpg)

Then I had a play at a dragon with some of that butterscotch?
(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s276/dybyk/DSCF1003-10.jpg)

Then an implosion flower but with a proper stemmy thing going down the back, unfortunately its not very clear in the pictures
The back
(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s276/dybyk/DSCF1004-10.jpg)
The implosiony bit
(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s276/dybyk/DSCF1005-10.jpg)

So this is where I step back and the offers from publishers come flooding in because they are just astounded at my natural boro ability and see the awful bubbles as an absolute joy and not a licence to explode, and wish to include me in their art books, Northstar will no doubt contact me to be their worldwide rep and all the companies will shower me with free boro. Of which I shall bestow kilos upon my fellow boro buds on here.

Kirstie will want me to demonstrate marbles on her homemade house thing and I guess BBC news will need me to make time for an interview................
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Post by: sparrow on November 25, 2010, 01:59:34 PM
Loving dem marbles! Specially de one on de right!

;D

(sorry, got a cold!)
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Post by: ♥♥Tan♥♥ on November 25, 2010, 02:07:55 PM
S'ok snotty one :-*
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Post by: SilverGems89 on November 25, 2010, 02:10:33 PM
oooooooh i am swooning Tan, i love all of those marbles but especially the left most one! i even like the air bubbles  ;)
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Post by: ♥♥Tan♥♥ on November 25, 2010, 02:11:23 PM
Back to being a total noob again :D
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Post by: Lush! on November 25, 2010, 02:16:43 PM
Okay, I believe you now  ;D

Fantastic roundness you got there, I love that blue swirly marble.  And I do definitely bow to you cos all my boro bits are still sitting waiting for me to pay them some attention and I wouldn't even know where to start with a marble or a dragon so you are well worthy of BBC interviews and book deals  ;D
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Post by: mizgeorge on November 25, 2010, 02:20:01 PM
erm. TAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how good are you? I'm fighting Julie for the swirly one (though I love the one on the other end too). Love the dragon - he's definitely the one swimming in the golden pool from Voyage of the Dawn Treader...
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Post by: sublimekate on November 25, 2010, 02:21:02 PM
swoonage  :D

I love the bumble bee style one  :) so clever!!
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Post by: ♥♥Tan♥♥ on November 25, 2010, 02:22:20 PM
Well you guys have just made me feel a whooole lot better about them :D
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Post by: Jolene on November 25, 2010, 02:26:00 PM
Boro is so your thing you clever lass!
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Post by: garishglobes on November 25, 2010, 02:27:43 PM
Those marbles are a bit flipping round, aren't they?   :D :D I love the orange one best of all (what colour is that, by the way because it has come out fab), plus I can definitely see a proper implosion stem going on there and the dragon is just adorable and cute and if he/she is off mandrel I am even more dead impressed!!  
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Post by: ♥♥Tan♥♥ on November 25, 2010, 02:35:07 PM
Right Em, that orange one.......I think its butterscotch but ..........I had a burned through plastic baggie in my vase along with my rods of clear and whenI took them out to clean them there were these grains in the bottom along with the baggie that had butterscotch written on it.

I have no idea where it came from, I didn't even know it was there and it must have been there a good five years, I guessed it was boro purely because its in with the clear boro rods.......luckily it hasn't blown up so I must have guessed right :D
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Post by: Steampunkglass on November 25, 2010, 02:36:00 PM
They are rather good, I'd say!!! Much, much rounder than my first efforts were! Welcome over to The Darkside, there'll be no going back from here  ;D  ;) ;) ;)
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Post by: julieHB on November 25, 2010, 02:58:49 PM
Swoon! Lovely round boroness, and loooove the dragon! Clever cat!  :D
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Post by: dangerousbead on November 25, 2010, 03:38:27 PM
Marbles.... Round .... Bubbles..... Cracquelure effect..... all goood, would like to suck the orange one for a bit  ;D
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Post by: ♥♥Tan♥♥ on November 25, 2010, 04:09:14 PM
Steady now..........it is the dark side after all ;)
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Post by: Emerald on November 25, 2010, 04:21:37 PM
those Marbles are ace and i love that dragon
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Post by: ScarletLeonard on November 25, 2010, 04:40:53 PM
Ohh they are fab. I like the bubbles the distressed look is funky.

I too have my eye on the black/blue/purple swirly one looks like a tornado.
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Post by: Margram on November 25, 2010, 07:39:35 PM
Um, I think you might be a natural, Tan...I love the swirly black marble best and the handsome dragon :)
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Post by: mirri marie on November 25, 2010, 08:01:33 PM
Thank goodness they turned up, now I know where to come, I've been looking for my marbles everywhere!  ;D  :D
Fantastic work Tan xx
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Post by: ♥♥Tan♥♥ on November 25, 2010, 08:21:49 PM
 ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Kalorlo on November 26, 2010, 09:30:50 AM
Wow, Tan! Those are very impressive. And the dragon is so good!
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Post by: Zia on November 26, 2010, 09:46:09 AM
multitalented Tan in action! wow!
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Post by: fionaess on November 26, 2010, 11:18:47 AM
Way to go Tan.... those are lovely  ;D
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Post by: awrylemming on November 26, 2010, 11:28:17 PM
Wot everybody else said Tan - brilliant boro!  ;D
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Post by: Marcel on December 01, 2010, 10:51:34 AM
Cool Marbles and i like the Dragon  ;)
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Post by: jammie on December 01, 2010, 11:37:56 AM
Great stuff Tan, love the dragon and the orangey one.  :)
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Post by: ♥♥Tan♥♥ on December 01, 2010, 01:29:27 PM
Thankyou lovely people ;D
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Post by: Pat from Canvey on December 01, 2010, 05:18:11 PM
I love the orangy one the best and the dragon is not arf bad.
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Post by: June on December 01, 2010, 05:41:19 PM
Oooo, well done you, they are fabby  ;D ;D
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Post by: ♥♥Tan♥♥ on December 01, 2010, 07:18:28 PM
Thankyou girly girls, I keep picking htem up and click clacking them in my hand.......love that sound ;D
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Post by: June on December 01, 2010, 07:42:22 PM
Oooo takes me back  :D  Does anybody remember that 'clackers' phase?  Two large marbles on the ends of a bit of string and you had to move them up and down so they would hit each other - or in my case my hand and if you had glass versions they hurt!!   :D :D  Health and Safety would have a nightmare over them now!!
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Post by: helenfc on December 01, 2010, 07:52:03 PM
wow how did i miss this thread?!! tan they fandabbydosy  ;D ;D
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Post by: ♥♥Tan♥♥ on December 01, 2010, 08:30:00 PM
Thankyou Helen. ;D

June, I remember and had them, two pairs one for each hand so I could drive people doubly mad :D

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Post by: June on December 02, 2010, 06:11:03 PM
Or smack yourself round the head!  They were pretty dangerous!!   ;D
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Post by: Ness on December 09, 2010, 01:34:02 PM
Just catching up, Tan - you're doing great with this boro stuff!  Those babies are ROUND (and awesomely fab)! and of course, I love the dragon.
Can't wait to see more!
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Post by: ♥♥Tan♥♥ on December 09, 2010, 02:21:53 PM
Thankyou flower, I have made more marbles but I have now bypassed the round stage and graduated to the round with a nipple  and covered in floor fluff stage ;D
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Post by: Les on December 09, 2010, 03:02:27 PM
You clever bugger, you !
x
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Post by: Pat from Canvey on December 09, 2010, 04:32:26 PM
I found  a pair of those clackers in a drawer once used by the kids and still with lots of their muck in it. I think I can just about manage three clacks.