More top drill Hearts,

in "new" Bullseye pinks, including Fuschia, yum.

I've alluded to my difficulties striking check glass tourmaline pink before, but that bluish pink is such a glorious color. So finally, I decided to try the Bullseye version. You can see some irregularity in the striking, but I would say it's somewhat easier to use; and almost as deep.

Hollow, raked, mandrel wound `top drill' style bead-hole oriented hearts, roughly 13--16mm, bullseye soda lime glass. 1/16" mandrels. January 2008.

Bullseye has in fact put out all sorts of transparent pinks, a couple of which I've also used here---perhaps the sappherine pink striker, and one of the limited edition colors (the coral-orangey one.)

Sadly I don't recall the details of the photography, but I think it came out pretty well---I was probably using pretty aggressive, possibly even opaque, diffusion. And I'm extremely pleased that at least one of my beads stood up.

All in all, one of those little pleasures---nothing earth-shattering, but well enough. Photo 16jan, file created 23jan08.