Flower Murrini

That’s right, I’m having a sale in my Artfire store right now!  Everything, including the murrini I make, is marked down by 25%.  You don’t have to do anything to get the sale price, it is already there.  This sale ends the morning of February 27th, so get your goodies now!

Spring Flower Murrini Mix

I am going hog wild adding murrini to my Artfire shop.  Chris has taken lovely pictures, and I’ll be adding more through the rest of the week.  If you want some special murrini and you don’t see it, just give me a holler!  And for a limited time (i.e. until I run out) I will be sending a free pair of fuzzy winter socks with each order!

Different bases and murrini

Here I was trying out some of the different murrini and stringer I had made using several base colors.  The ivory base didn’t work so well, but I’m really partial to the green bead with purple flowers.

Trey Cornette's bead

This is one of Trey Cornette’s fabulous glass beads.  He makes the most amazing flower and dot/squiggle beads.  What I like to do is make the murrini that goes onto beads like Trey’s, rather than beads like Trey’s, cause I sure don’t want to steal his cool ideas.

What is murrini you ask?  Well, let’s start from the begining.  Imagine something the shape of a can of soda, and when you look at the end you see a picture, say of a fish. Now stretch out that can so it is shaped like a paper towel tube.  It is longer and skinnier, but when you look at the end you still see a picture of the fish.  That shape is called a “came” or “cane” depending on who you are talking to.  When you slice the cane into little pieces, each one will be thin and have a picture of the fish.  That piece is called a “murrini”.  Murrini is Italian for “thousand flowers”, which makes sense because you get a whole lot of slices from one pull!

I’ve discovered over time that I don’t particularly like using murrini, but I sure do like making it!  So far I’ve made flowers like in Trey’s bead using a raku/intense black combo, and an opal yellow/intense black combo.  If you make beads, what other combos would you like to see?