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Just email me ( corinatettinger@yahoo.com) and tell me the NAME of the frog you want. If it does not say SOLD behind the frog, chances are that it's available. Shipping is $ 2.00 per frog, unless it is combined with a bead-set, then shipping is included.
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Monday, 16th of June - Frog having summer fun...
# A - Let's have some fun in the garden
A couple of cute frog babies playing among the flowers. The haven't discovered the more sophisticated ways in which frogs are playing these days, and thus, are not in imminent danger of being eaten, unlike their daredevil cousin Benchley...They are occupying a 2 inch long flat focal, decorated with watercolour-style florals. $ 110 (SOLD)
# B - Benchley - better watch out!
A fearless little boyfrog, impressing the girls on shore with his waterskiing skills. Let's hope the best for him. 2 inch long, $ 100
# C - Randy caught in the rain(-drop)
For over a year my friend Gee tried to talk me into making an encased frog, and I always argued that it wasn't possible, that it was likely to get smeared etc. - but with all the training I had in encasing raised items (in the quarks), I finally felt that I was up to the task, and the result is absolutely adorable, unique and near indistructable....the worlds (?) first encased frog - and the poor guy got trapped in a raindrop in our yard last week.... If you live in a hot climate and need something refreshing to wear, this might be the answer! 3/4 inch tall, $ 100 (SOLD)
# D - Rupert over the Rainbow
Another encased frog on a dichroic rainbow inside of a pretty chunky bead, capped with silver-plum bead-caps, this bead falls in the category of "wearable self-defense weapon", 1 1/2 inch tall, $ 125 (SOLD)
Monday, 9th of June - Patriotic Frogs
# A - Frank for president
Frank is 3/4 inches high and is very proud of his special order speedos....vote for him today! $ 35 (SOLD)
# B - Jimmy for Vice-president
Not quite 3/4 inch high, $ 30 (SOLD)
# C - Baby-Bob
doesn't give a damn, he is just wondering where the ice-cream went...1/2 inch high, $ 35 (SOLD)
# D - George
just wants to go home and play golf, 3/4 inch high, $ 40 (SOLD)
# E - Carlton, CIA
1 inch high, $ 45 (SOLD)
# F - Gerald resides in the Garden
A particularly nice examplar of the "garden-variety" on a dichroic background, 3/4 inch high, $ 45 (SOLD)
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Monday, 24th of March
Jacques, the snorkeling frog
Living on a lake brings you a little closer to nature - and sometimes you witness wildlife behaviour you would have never dreamed of before...Well, Jaques showed up a couple of days ago, and though he would have usually blended in with the lakeshore vegetation, his red speedos made him stick out. And after about half an hour of face off, he decided that I was no threat, and he hopped over to shoot the, well, you know...and although he gave me that "if you kiss" me blabla and was sort of indignated that I didn't go for it, we became fast friends. And so I learned about the purpose and origin of his outfit. Jaques has always been a big dreamer. And one of these days, he told me, is is going to dive the Great Barrier Reef! When I told him that I had plans to go to Australia at the end of the year, he got all excited - since one of his biggest headaches had always been the problem of transportation. But why, you might wonder, does a frog need flippers, mask and snorkel? Well, in reality he doesn't - and frogs aren't all that different from us humans, we have a lot more stuff than we need, and "purpose" has nothing to do with "want". Luckily, modern civilization caters to nearly each and every one of it's creatures whims, so Jaques got himself a mailorder catalog for frog diving supplies (he is saving his bucks for "real" scuba gear), and for now he is training in the murky waters of Lake Dolloff, but he is able to see through the muck and the bead I made for him is based on what he told me it looks like down at the bottom.....Let's hope he'll manage to get his scuba gear before our trip, I am sure he would be much happier.... the purchase price of $ 95 for this 1 inch high focal bead will be entirely donated to Jaques to support his big dream....
# A - Sir Lancelet on Golden Pond
I'm starting out with my favorite frog today, I don't know why I named him "Sir Lancelot", that was the first thing that popped into my head, and I usually just go with that. He has chosen residence on a 1 inch tall squeezed fossil bead with raised barnacles, and he assured me that he plans on taking that with him to whatever new homes he will travel. Very nice metallic effect and an intricate new eye design. $ 75 (SOLD)
# 5 - Orville the office manager
What does Orville have to do with the office? You'll see when I list my new focals on the other page - Orville is trapped on an office quark. He features some pretty little details like amber eyes and goldstone pin-stripes on his legs. 3/4 inch high, $ 60 (SOLD)
# C - Ebenezer keeping an eye on things
I was into the bizarre names today, just one of those days. Ebenezer is too cute to be true, the little dotted murrini eyes turned out perfectly - and he is sitting on a poked eye beads accented with metallic lines. The round bead is 11mm tall, $ 50 (SOLD)
# D - Stubby the Quark-toad
I don't know for sure what the visual difference between a frog and a toad is, but Stubby somehow looks like a toad on a cheerful little quark. 3/4 inch high (from toad butt to toad nose), $ 55 (SOLD)
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Wow, just as I was writing the date I realized that I haven't had any frogs for sale for almost 5 weeks, it's about time to get back into the creative frog mood. Today, I have 3 to offer, all of them on variations of quarks...but see for yourself.
# A - Maxi, the mini-frog
Maxi is pretty adorable, he is the smallest frog I have ever made on a quark - all of 1 cm high, I added a picture "in the hand" to give you an idea of his size. $ 50 (SOLD)
# B - Timothy on a Tear of Joy Quark
Adorable creature in a slightly "shiny" green (not the usual pea-green I use for frogs, but a rare batch of Vetrofond odd green), on a 3/4 inch tear of joy quark, $ 75 (SOLD)
Monday, 3rd of March
# A - "Daytona Racing Frogs"
"Gentlefrogs, start your engines". Can you hear the roar? No gentle "ribbit" for these guys. They were actually made as a request from a friend. This is what she wrote in an email yesterday:
"How’s the longed-for Daytona Poopy coming along? (That is hysterically funny to say ou tloud!!!) I’m dying to know!!!!! I am so psyched about him! Name him Zoomer or something fast. “Zoomer the Fast-Farting Frog. He dodges Dodges, Chevy’s, Fords and Toyota’s at Daytona … and his fast-farting gas still propels him to cross the finish line first! All in one piece. Woo hoo!”
At that point I had made the frog on the left - and for some reason he didn't look like a Zoomer, I knew that he would be the one who holds up everybody else on the race track, which is why he comes with two bumpers on his behind. His name is Boomer. So, in order to please my friend, I made a Zoomer as well, and he comes equipped with a fancy exhaust pipe that also functions as a parachute, in case the breaks can't handle the lightning-fast speed with which he approaches the checkered flag.
I also showed reluctantly a picture of the underside of their tires....I don't know about the wetlands around Daytona, but those fatty green dots look a little suspicious, I don't even want to think about it...
They are one inch long and $ 70 a piece....(SOLD)
# B - "Eddie the Sore Loser"
Eddie has been dreaming of Daytona forever, but that's all he can do, because is eyesight is very poor, he wouldn't even be able to SEE that darn checkered flag. And then there is the sad subject of his rear, no, no magic exhaust pipe for him, it's just hemorrhoids. And a bad case of it to boot. $ 70 (SOLD)
# C - "Peteee, the Mama's Boy"
Can you tell that someone is gearing up for Mother's Day? Of course, since Pete is a Poison Fart Frog, smelling his roses make not be what you expect, but his Mama knows, and loves him just as well. $ 70 (SOLD)
# D - Michael, Master of the Quarks
The picture pretty much says it all....2 cm, $ 100 (SOLD)
# E - The Truth about the Easter Bunny
I am sorry if I'm robbing you of an old and beloved illusion, but the Easter Bunny is nothing but a myth. In reality, the distribution of Easter Eggs lies entirely in the hands of a sub-species of the Camano Island Poison Fart Frog: the benign and friendly Easter froggy. Also, there is not just one (yes, Santa Claus can handle the entire world, since he has the support of flying reindeer, but the world of Easter needs myriads of Easter froggies, who are shy but quick, and has thus eluded the observing mind of the myth-makers. AND of course frogs do actually lay eggs, so, why the heck did you ever believe in the bunny, other than in the mansion, looking their part (blond and dumb). People are so incredibly gullible, tsssssss.
Each of these are about 1 inch high, on very detailed cameo-shaped beads. $ 75 a piece. I asked them what there name were, but they kept their mouth shut, so, your guess is as good as mine. (THE ONE ON THE RIGHT IS SOLD)
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Saturday, 1st of March
Scientist discovers new species: The Camano Island Poison Fart Frogs
# A - Poopy the Playground Frog
He can jump really fast, because of the constant danger of being stepped on by little feet. 1 inch tall, $ 65 (SOLD)
# B - Plop the Pond Frog
He can swim really fast, because he looks like a candy to the big fish in the pond. 1 inch tall, $ 65 (SOLD)
# C - Skippy the Stream Frog
Skippy is one step up on the evolution of waterbound Poison Fart Frogs, he is all stream-lined, so, he is the laziest of the bunch, he just floats through life. 1 inch tall, $ 60 (SOLD)
# D - Fry the Fire Frog
A very rare poison fart frog, since he loves to hide in the fire, which this badly adapted species only does once successfully. Darwin new that stupidity doesn't propagate, this frog doesn't . 1 inch tall, $ 60 (SOLD)
# E - Whim the Wedding Frog
While this guy is one of the prettiest poison fart frog found on Camano Island, he is also the meanest. Camouflaged as a bridal bouquet, he waits for the bride to pick him up, and then he rips one right in her face. While this seems an utterly cruel thing to do, nature has intended this as a kindness, in order to prepare the wife to be for real life...1 inch tall, $ 65 (SOLD)
# F - Charlie the Chaplin Frog
Charlie and his cousin, Buster are almost never seen in nature, because there is just nothing for them to blend in with. After the Creator discovered the eternal wisdom that "not everything is black and white"...she went crazy with color, and the Chaplin and Keeton Frogs became dearly beloved anachronisms. 1 inch tall, $ 60 (SOLD)
# F - Buster the Keeton Frog
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Monday, 18th of February
3 Frog-beads today - all frogs are MINIATURE frogs, sitting on Butchard Garden focals. Why miniature? Well, the average frog size in the funky batch was 2 cm - the ones I made in the past 3 days are less then 1 cm....very cute! And for some reason harder to make than the "full-size" brothers...
# A - Peonius in Butchard Garden
The cameo-bead is 1 inch tall, miniature frog mingling with the roses. $ 65 (SOLD)
# B - Dahlius on Butchard Garden Inro
1 1/2 inch tall, 1 inch wide, an "Inro" shaped bead (click HERE to learn what this is, in case you don't know....). Almost my favorite, until you go one more down....but he is pretty cool. The backside is decorated as well, but I was getting too lazy with taking the pictures...$ 90 (SOLD)
# C - Rosie and Roseo on Butchard Garden Madeleine
This is definitely among my favorite frog-beads, I think I only ever made 3 beads with two frogs on them, because I had the hardest time with the bead cracking at the opposite and from the one I was putting the frog. But I finally figured out how to do it safely - I mafe both frogs at the same time, one toe here, another toe on top etc. The miniature frogs and all their toes are very securely melted to the bead and will survive the wear and tear of clinging to a pendant....2 inches long, 1 inch wide, $ 130 (SOLD)
Friday 15th of Februay
Today's frogs are all funky and bright - and they are clinging to QUARKS. What are quarks? (Not that I think you don't know what Quarks are, but I myself needed a little refreshing, so I asked Wickipedia):
A quark (IPA: /kwɔrk/) is a generic type of physical particlethat forms one of the two basic constituents of matter, the other being the lepton. Various species of quarks combine in specific ways to form protonsand neutrons, in each case taking exactly three quarks to make the composite particle in question.
There are six different types of quark, usually known as flavors: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. (Their names were chosen arbitrarily based on the need to name them something that could be easily remembered and used.) The up and down varieties survive in profusion, and are distinguished by (among other things) their electric charge. It is this which makes the difference when quarks clump together to form protons or neutrons: a proton is made up of two up quarks and one down quark, yielding a net charge of +1; while a neutron contains one up quark and two down quarks, yielding a net charge of 0.
Quarks are the only fundamental particlesthat interact through all four of the fundamental forces.
Antiparticlesof quarks are called antiquarks.
Isolated quarks are never found naturally; they are almost always found in groups of two (mesons) or groups of three (baryons) called hadrons. This is a direct consequence of confinement.
There is quite a bit of variety in color - hope that you will find a friend for life, who inspires you to venture beyond the world we see, and who puts a smile on your face (by the way, did you know that in Germany, frogs don't say "ribbit", they say QUAK)... All of these quarks (except for # A and # ?) are made with handmade Murrini, Millefiori, twisted cane, striped cane, ribbon cane, latticino and dichroic - they would be wonderful to make in a workshop, because it includes many of the skills an beadmaker can use for anything they want to make...
# A - Denny on the Disco Quark
Denny is the "simplest" of today's bunch, but he is Mr. Brain, and his eyes don't ever miss a beat...bead? His quark is 1 inch tall, tabular shaped, encased rainbowdichroic on black. $ 70 (SOLD)
# B - Nimrod the Firefrog on Nature Quark
1 1/4 inch tall, the pictures tell all, $ 120 (SOLD)
# C - Sherlock Homes on a Mystery Quark
This Quark has a core of shimmering Palladium leaf under a heavy layer of Diamond Clear, the decoration is slightly raised. 1 inch high, $ 140 (SOLD)
# D - Fritz on the Flower Quark
A really fun retro frog on a Watercolour-floral squeezed bead. 1 1/2 inch long, $ 100 (SOLD)
# E - Picasso on a Creativity Quark
One of the reason there are two frog-less Quark beads on the Specials page is that I had planned putting a frog on, but then I loved the beads so much that I wanted to keep them "pure". But then I got the "pure" bead-urge out of my system, and the frog on the Creativity beads finally became reality. I almost kept him, but you know that "Oh, I can always make another one for myself"-syndrom (which usually doesn't ever happen). So, whoever get this one has to promise to give him lots of love and attention. $ 140 (SOLD)
# F - Max on a Midnight Quark
You either love or hate this little guy, who is a baby toad, trying to run with the big frogs. So he chose a long Midnight Quark bicone (2 1/2 inches) to cling to, hoping that his prop will make up for his lack of stature.....$ 100 (SOLD)
# G - Stevie on a Sunshine Quark
Stevie is definitely the star of todays collection - he is perched on a 1 1/2 inch Tequila sunrise lentil, which is signed and dated on the back. $ 150
# H - Sindbad on a Space Quark
The last frog was captured from outer space...and he hangs on to a Quark that holds the Universe together. He grew a tail, in order to be able to navigate in weightlessness, and his eye can see millions of lightyears ahed....1 1/2 inch long, $ 85
Monday, February 11th
Darius the Dalmation-frog
He is sitting on an encased zebra bead, dreaming of safari in Africa some day. If you adopt him and go to Africa, make sure to take him along. 3/4 inches high, $ 48
# A - Jonny Fairplay
This little fellow was the first to get voted out of the kiln - and he is quite happy to be jumping around in the big world. Precision Rembrand on the "magic" recipe, 1 1/2 inches long, $ 65 (SOLD)
# B - Jackie's Fault
This adorable little critter is sitting on an experimental bicone which was inspired by an excited email from my friend Jackie in Oziland, who said I "HAD" to try this combination of Silver Pink, Petroleum Green and Psyche....(how do people ever come up with the idea of trying something that bizarre together?). So, I tried it, and of course I did my "frog-to-the-rescue" thing (= if you're not all too thrilled about the bead by itself, put a frog on it...), and now it's actually fun. Still, since it has the element of experimental to it, it's a little on the cheaper side, 1 3/4 inches long, $ 30 (SOLD)
# C - Pete on Pink
This is a "classic" little frog in green on a 1/2 inch encased floral. I used the Precision Diamond Clear for the encasing, and even on a small bead like this it's amazing how perfect the clear is..For the frog I didn't use my standard "pea green", but a Vetrofond Odd Green that is opaque, but at the same time it has a certain translucency to it. Very cute....$ 35 (SOLD)
# D - Bathroom Bob
A similar bead, but with a different color frog, this color is called "Grasshopper Green", but whoever named this color looked at the rod without actually every MELTING the glass, because it completely changes, from a medium grass green to a light "bathroom blue-green". The floral bead underneath is 1/2 inch high, $ 30. (SOLD)
Tuesday, January 29th
All Frogs today will come with a free braided-cellphone lariat....
# A - Micky Moto
An adorable little critter from the "Precision-glamour-green" variety, he hangs on to a tiny round bead of encased terra with ivory stripes reminding me of pajamas...and his facial expression is so cute...like the frog-version of micky mouse....1/2 inch high, $ 38 (SOLD)
# B - Swirlygirl
The picture pretty much says it all, very girly, even with a little flower....just cute. 3/4 inch high, $ 42 (SOLD)
# C - Cockidooo
This guy is just "cockie", and he sits on the bead a wee bit cockeyed....so, the name is perfect. Precision-frog (with metallic hints) on a green dichroic bead with faint golden swirls, a little over 1/2 inch tall, $ 40. (SOLD)
# D - Rose (not) Red
A "traditional" green frog on a long teardrop shaped bead made from a new experimental (= not yet available, and it maybe never will be, who knows, but you have to say that in Italian....) glass from Effetre, which is transparent green on the inside of the rod, and light opaque green on the outside, which turns into the random swirls you see on the bed. This would make a nice focal for a long fancy necklace...and I might even be talked into making some matching beads out of the last 5 inches I have of this mystery glass....1 1/4 inch high, $ 70. (SOLD)
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Friday, January 18th
# A - Little Booger-boy
I don't think I have to say much, he is yummie and adorable, and teeny-weeny. Lots of golden shimmer on this guy (made with Precision glass) - $ 35 (SOLD)
# B - Tyra Hangs
Can you tell that I am watching too many reality-shows? Tyra hangs onto an olive shaped Mystic-water bead that has subtle hints of purple. 15 mm high, $ 42 (SOLD).
# C - Louis on the Lilypad
Louis could either be worn as a pendant, or as a focal for a bracelet (maybe in combination with the mystic waters II set.) His facial expression just cracks me up, somehow I think he looks as if he is up to mischief.... 22mm long, $ 45 (SOLD).
# D - Googlyeyed Goldilocks
The next two focals have a different style of eyes - "googly", but still classy. 3 mm high, $ 65 (SOLD)
# E - Googlyeyed Jonas on the Wale-bone
Over 4 cm long, just perfect ....$ 75 (SOLD)
more coming!!!
Tuesday, January 1st, TWOTHOUSANDEIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
# A - Franklin and the Fireworks on the Pond
Could there be a better way to start the New Year than with a classy-crazy Pondfrog? (Yes, I hope....but anyway) - Franklin must have had either some sad news or extremely romantic thoughts, his eyes are all watery and "googly", which looks good on him, so, let's hope that it was the romance that made him tear up.....He is sitting on a 1.5 inch x 1 inch wide flat pond-bead with exploding fireworks. Happy New Year to Franklin - $ 85. (SOLD)
# 2 - Kevin hanging on to the Waterworld
This bead doesn't need any explanation, other than dimensions: it's 1 3/4 inches long. Since Kevin is hanging on to the side of the bead, it's perfect as a pendant, there is no front or back, it looks good no matter how it hangs. $ 70
# C - Dichroic Darling Froggie
Darling Froggie would match any of the "Dichroic Darlings" on the Specials-Page , he looks just too cute, as if he is scared that the bead will explode underneath him. I promise him and you, it won't. $ 30 (SOLD)
# D - Hanabi Max
Max is sporting a camouflage look on top of a "Hanabi" style large oval bead (3/4 inch high)....one of those "can definitely never make a second one of these" type of beads, $ 50. (SOLD)
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Sunday, December 2nd
Just two frogs today (but lots of regular beads on the other page), in case you are thinking of a Christmas gift for a frog lover among your friends or family, these might work!
# A - Mario Eleganza
A metallic gold frog in a very "froggish pose" (somehow), perched on a 2 inch flat oblong beads in black and a myriad of caramel, green, purple and blue abstract pattern....very stylish, and probably one of the nicest frogs I have ever made...
$ 75 (SOLD)
# B - "Name-him-yourself"
A Classic Frog, trying to hang on. Green frog managed to attach himself to a pretty encased floral, though it looks like he doesn't have much confidence in staying put. 3/4 inch high, $ 45 (SOLD)
Monday, November 26th
Today I have a whole bunch of frogs on Christmas Lightbulbs - initially I got the idea from a set of plain Christmas lightbulbs made by my friend Leslie Belanger (aka "Canterbury Keepsakes") - and when Sheri started to decorate the house with strings of Christmas lights I thought it was finally time to turn my idea into being. I spent two days on these little fellows - and if the bug bites me again I might even decorate the miniature Christmas tree that bead-mom Peg gave us for the next beadchallenge with a family of Christmaslight-frogs. But to be honest, that must be a BIG bug that has to bite me feroceously.....since these are very stressful to make - having to keep everything warm without the bulb cracking - and not so warm that the frog toes or the metal "screw" part melts into oblivion.
I have sorted the frogs by colors of the bulb (there are differences in the blue and the green, I have dark transparent blue and medium, same with the green.....but you should be able to tell from the picture) - they are all more or less the same size (a little less than an inch tall), and let me know if you want me to turn yours into a pendant/ornament (I have really tiny Sterling beadcaps that fit perfectly on top of the metal part). I made one sample pendant (# A). Each frog is $ 40 ($ 43 as a pendant) - shipping today is FREE!
After I'm done listing the frogs, I have to leave for a little while, so, today it will be "random distribution". My apologies if you don't hear from me right away....Oh, one more thing, the clear stuff underneath the frogs is Museum's Putty, it is not part of the frogs ! Thanks Chris!
# A - Santa Andrew (his hat slipped over his right eye) (sold)
# B - Santa Bob (sold)
# C - Santa Claus (sold)
# D - Santa Don (sold)
# E - Santa Edward (sold)
# F - Santa Fred (sold)
# G - Santa Greg (sold)
# H - Santa Hannibal (sold)
# I - Santa Ives (sold)
# J - Santa Jack (sold)
# K - Santa Kurt (sold)
# L - Santa Lucio (sold)
# M - Santa Michael (sold)
# N - Santa Nick (sold)
# O - Santa Olaf (sold)
# - Santa Paul (he refused to be classic, so, he chose a hot-pink lightbulb) (sold)
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Monday, November 5th
# A - Socrates
This flat frog focal is way cool...the core is purple dichroic over black, with accents of twisted silvered ivory.....and the "wings" of the oval lentil are incase in crystal clear. Since the R-4 glass I used for Socrates the frog has a lot of silver in it, it fumes onto the base-bead, which creates the golden shine you see around the bottom half of the bead. One fun detail is also the look from the backside: you can see the little GREEN fingers and calves of the frog. When looked at from the front, the frog is caramel-metallic....that's because the glass is actually green in the rod-form, but I am reducing it as I apply the frog....where the frogs bodyparts touch the clear, it can't reduce, and thus looks the original green. Sweet. Why is the frog called "Socrates"? Well, he has a very philosophical look on his face, and the main character in the book I am currently reading ("The Peaceful Warrior") is called Socrates....
The bead is 1 1/2 inch long, 1 inch wide...$ 75 (SOLD)
# B - Henry Matisse
I had an order for another "Hanabi" frog....but accidentally I must have grabbed a different rod of Precision Glass....because instead of blue, the frog turned all kinds of colors. Hard to believe, but the frog was only made with ONE color. Aren't we beadmakers lucky? Surprises are around every corner.....Henry Matisse sits on a 1 inch high heavily encased universe bead, lots of fun. $ 60 (SOLD)
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Friday, October 26th
Today's 4 frogs are part of the dichroic "party-time" series I have on the other page of strands and focals....not much to say about the frogs, the pictures speak pretty much for themselves (I am also running out of steam for listing beads....)
# A - George of the Jungle
George has a beautiful metallic glow all over his body (made with Precision Glass), and the base bead (which is 14 mm high) is very cool, with a deep green dichroic glow and a stringer decoration that has all kinds of metallic hues of purple, green and pink, unfortunately I forgot what kind of stringer I used....$ 48 (SOLD)
# B - Abraham on top of things
This frog sits on another green dichroic bead on a black core (14mm high), topped with "bead-caps" in silver plum, which reminded me of those jewish "caps" (oh, I hope I don't get myself in trouble by admitting that I don't know what those are called....). Anyway, that's why his named him Abraham, after my favorite Israelian friend....$ 42 (AVAILABLE)
# C - Forbes on the Fence
Forbes got himself hold of another 14 mm dichroic bead, slightly olive shaped, with a stripe of encased silver-mesh "fence" underneath the encasing layer....his is on the bluish metallic side, with two layers of dots (Clear over Kronos) on the back...He has a sweet inquisitive look on his face...$ 50 (SOLD)
# D - Pajama Phil
Phil is a classic green bead-frog, perched on a green dichroic bead over a purple core, lots of clear encasing and fine intense black pin-striped underneath the encasing layer....This bead is also 14 mm high, how do I do that, making them all the same heigths? I have no idea........$ 42 (SOLD)
Thursday, October 18th
Today I have a few frogs in "focal size" (anything bigger than my usual 1/2 inch). The first two are a beautiful sparkly mossy green, which is one of the new Vetrofond "Limited Edition" colors I had the pleasure to test a couple of weeks ago. Since Mike is having some kind of naming-contest for those new colors, I will just call it what came into my mind first "sparkly mossy green". It's not "obviously" sparkly, like the bullseye aventurine, but it looks like someone accidentally dropped a big chunk of goldstone into the furncace when they made the glass....and you can see it when you know its there. Very pretty.
# A - MR.MOSSY RIDING THE WAVE
The base-bead is quite a bit more sparkly than it shows in the photograph, there is lots of ocean-action on a base of blue dichroic....with handmade Murrini, double-twisted cane and "stuff". One inch high, $ 45
# B - REMBRANDT BRAVES THE WATERS
I named this guy "Rembrandt", because that is the name of the glass I THOUGHT I used to make him, but then looking at the photograph, the blueish hue of the legs actually made me wonder - and indeed, I didn't use the Rembrandt-glass, but he was quite happy with his name, told me that it made him feel like a hot-shot artist somehow...so, I didn't have to heart to take it away from him. He sits on an olive shaped heavily encased bead in shades of blue, with dichroic and silver mesh...a little over 3/4 inch high, $ 45 (SOLD)
# C - DORA THE POND DIVA
This is the first time I tried a little different "eye-makeup": a very fine stringerline with a dot in the center....somehow reminded me of that look that Miss Piggy had when she was dressed up. So, this frog HAD to be a girl, and one with an attitude for sure. The pond she is terrorizing has lots of blue-green stuff, murrini, twisted stringer, enamels, dichroic and the un-avoidable silvermesh snippet, all encased in very pale blue. This would make a great pendant I think, $ 60 (SOLD)
# D - OSCAR PEEKING OVER THE GARDEN FENCE
Oscar is the first frog I made with the PrecisionGlass color "Rembrandt"....remember in my newsletter, when I was so excited to have found the "perfect metallic" - but when I took him out of the kiln most of the metal look had disappeared. Well - this is what he looks like. He is still metallic on his eyes and around his nose, with some metallic hints around the knees - the obviously protuding (and thus hotter) parts kept the reduction, the rest of the frog must have been too cold...so the reduction faded....it was an interesting lesson - but te frog I made is still very beautiful I think, mostly a dark transparent green. The tear-drop shaped focal was made on berry-purple, with a piece of copper-mesh, encased in clear. The bead is 1 1/4 inch high, $ 45 (SOLD)
Friday, October 12th
Today's "Frogtheme" is DON'T KISS A FROG, BE A PRINCESS.
You can interpret that any which way you want, but I think there are quite a few women who go through painful breakups or divorces, sometimes after many many years of marriage - and they discover that there is a life WITHOUT men. I'm not sure about the exact numbers, but statistics show that the percentage of women who get remarried after a divorce is way lower then the percentage of men who enter a new relationship. The theory behind that is that a lot of men who were married a long time just don't know how to do the basic things in life.
Which reminds me of a little fairy tale my friend Jackie from downunder sent me (and please excuse the profanity at the end, if you read it in that Aussie-accent, it sounds much friendlier)
Once upon a time in a land far away,
a beautiful, independent, self-assured princess
happened upon a frog as she sat contemplating ecological issues
on the shores of an unpolluted pond in a verdant meadow near her castle.
The frog hopped into the princess' lap and said: " Elegant Lady,
I was once a handsome prince, until an evil witch cast a spell upon me.
One kiss from you, however, and I will turn back
into the dapper, young prince that I am and then, my sweet, we can marry
and set up housekeeping in your castle with my mother,
where you can prepare my meals, clean my clothes, bear my children,
and forever feel grateful and happy doing so."
That night, as the princess dined sumptuously on lightly sauteed frog legs
seasoned in a white wine and onion cream sauce, she chuckled and thought to herself:
I don't fuckin think so.
Now to the frogs. All of these princesses were made with the color "Rembrandt" from Precision Glass (aka R-4). The color is very hard to describe (well, in the unmolten rod-form it's easy: it looks like transparent green). The reduced result is more like a pastel-golden-caramel-marble. Absolutely gorgeous for princess-frogs - and here they are, on parade:
# A - Ambrosia
Ambrosia is the perfect lady to "show off" the new glass.....she has the shine, the marbling, a little bit of blue-green eyeshadow, and she is a classy frog who doesn't need much in her life, so, a little amber, with three encased "diamonds" is all it takes her to be happy. The base bead she sits on is 1/2 inch high, $ 40. (SOLD)
# B - Audrey (SOLD)
Audrey, like her name-sake, is dainty and elegant, with a long neck. She holds on to a small oval bead in pale purple with encased silver mesh, and silverplum beadcaps. $ 45
# C - Elizabeth
Elizabeth sure likes her glitz and glamour stuff, but hey, since she's the richest frog in the world, she can afford it. Melted silvermesh on gold stone band over royal purple, encased in clear. $ 45 (SOLD)
# D - Goldilocks
Another glamour-girl, but with very humble origins, so she has a certain nostalgic fondness to garbage cans. This barrel is completely wrapped in goldstone band, has a patch of silver mesh, encased in clear and rimmed with encased Goldstone stringer. Sweeeeet. $ 48 (SOLD)
# E - Martha
Martha definitely likes to decorate, inside and out. This little Easteregg (in Martha's world, every season is another reason to...) has a mosaic of small goldstone band pieces under a layer of light amber, and silvered ivory, silvery mesh and a spiral of whatever-was-handy-who-knows-what-it-was stringer.... you should see her bedroom - there is no place for a prince, with all those pillows, and throws and shelves....$ 45 (SOLD)
# F - Paris Super-8
Frogprincess Paris has a little bit of a stupid look on her face....I better not comment on this one....goldstone swirl on white, encased in light berry-purple, shaped into a little barrel. $ 40 (SOLD)
# G - Nicole Poorie
Of course, the best friend can't be far, but wait? Do I have my facts straight? Friend or Foe? I am behind on my gossip, sorry Nicole is a bit more colorful this time, she chose to reside on a dark pink bead with patches of goldstone band on the outside. $ 40
H - Phoebe
Phoebe is distinguished, friendly, and she likes purple. That's about all I can say about her. $ 40 (SOLD)
# I - Ruby
Ruby is probably my favorite...just because the red is so RED (which is not always the case in lampworking, you never know what your red will look like till it's too late)....Her heart is fenced in - or fenced out? but it's BIG, and that's what counts.... $ 45 (SOLD)
Thursday, October 4th
# A - Babyfrogs
First the gang of baby-frogs that raised hell in the gumball-machines. I added a "regular" size frog to the picture, just to show you how small the babies are (the frog king is unfortunately not for sale, you can't see it in the picture, but he lost his knee in a horse-backriding accent (frogs are not the smartest creatures....they should stick to riding things they know how to hang on to....like lilypads, margarita glasses, rockets...). But I am getting side-tracked here. The frogs-babies really got a kick out of "The Sound of Music", so they lined up by size. Basically, each frog sits on a 5-7 mm wide spacer-bead. Just let me know the color of the one you want...they are $ 25 each. (3 AVAILABLE)
# B - The Snooty SpaceKing, the picture says it all (and hey, he has some diamonds to guard who are floating in the atmosphere of his planet. He is VERY important, and he knows it. Whoever gets him: WARNING, don't kiss this guy, he is cute in your hand, but nasty as a man in your house! He'll never do the dishes, the laundry, rub your feet....he'll be sitting in front of the TV all day and demand you to do things for him. You already have one of those in your life? hmmmmmmmm, there must be some kind of reversal process....)
Snooty SpaceKing is 1 inch tall, $ 65 (SOLD)
 
# C - The Nosy SpaceCadett - he is a little dumb-witted, but very friendly and always looking for something cool to stick his nose into. Faintly related to the earthbound Anteater, but there are no ants to suck up in Space, so, instead he has to focus on "affairs of the universe". He knows all the dirty stories on Luke, and Paris Leia .....He would love to wisper some of the rumors in your ear, but once he's in your ear, he might never want to come out....what a cozy space to be for that nose!!! (Oh geeee, I just went to the coffee table where I take my pictures, to measure how tall he is - and he is GONE. Toby has this nasty habit to steal beads.....I'll have to search the entire house and the yard, to see whether he dropped him - or, whether the droppings tomorrow will, oh, sh....t, I don't want to go there.....) ---- phhhhhh, I found him on the doggiebed under my studio-table.... badly shaken. But one he was back up hight, out of reach for either one of our dogs, we wiped the slobber of his face and proudly prounounced! " I am a SURVIVOR. Who knows, next week I might be the BACHELOR. Since I'm from out of space, DANCING WITH THE STARS is no big deal. World - WATCH OUT!" If YOU think you can deal with this kind of attitude in your life, he is yours for $ 55
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# A - Hanabi Kaeru (Japanese for "Fireworks Frog), interesting patterns in blues and greens, with silver-plum "beadcaps", $ 50 (SOLD)
# B - Marty Feldman, 18 mm high (small), cute, $ 34 (SOLD)
I am going to have a few moreblue-green metallic lizards and pale "creatures" next week, but in my mind I am cooking up a new set of Theme-frogs: FROGS AROUND THE WORLD. Any suggestions or images are welcome!
Here is a "handful" of Theme-frogs (Frogs throughout the Year)....close ups of each frog below (I just liked that the "frogs-in-the-hand-is-better-than-a-prince-in...???-shot, to give you an idea of size) ...The prices vary according to the amount of time that it went into making each frog - especially those the include parts made ahead of time, kept on a hotplate and then carefully applied to the "finished" frog (like the bridal veil, Romeo's rose or Zorrogs cape).
Sad news: Sneak the Snorkelfrog lost his snorkel, after a near-death experience in the mouth of a confused dog....Without his snorkel, he drowned and he will receive a heroes funeral....
SPRING:
# A - Romeo Frogtague, on his way up the balcony... (SOLD)
# B - Flower Boy, hiding from the spring rain... (SOLD)
# C - Frogs Bunny. He loves going to Starbucks, can you tell? (SOLD)
SUMMER:
# D - Maui Jim, proud of his imported SPEEDOS (wait, should he live in Florida?) (SOLD)
# E - Gordon the Golfer. Where is the club? Wait, he's hanging on to the golfball... he must have dropped the club when the ball took off. Warning: Low IQ frog. Think twice. (SOLD)
# F - Bridget the hopeful Bride, man, she loves her engagement ring. But will the Groom show up? (MARRIED)
FALL
# G - Gary The Groom. He was missing in action and was finally located, a thousand miles away. Smart guy....but I have to tell you - he's a cheapskin....notice that he doesn't wear a tux? The daily rental fee was too high for this guy....and the hat....later on you see that one of the real heroes in frogland is NOT wearing his hat. Now, how Gary got away with THAT guys hat,....it will be an eternal mystery! Rumor also has it that Gary applied for a job as a stage-magician. But he didn't want to invest in a rabbitt.....ribbit! (MARRIED)
# H - Beau Bewitched, (SOLD)
# I - Bat-frog, got his props a little confused, since he loves spiders, but the spider-man outfit, com'on, just not cool.....but then, who the heck needs Robin? (SOLD)
# J - He is definitely the coolest Zorrog who has ever seen the face of the earth. Even without that hat that got lost - where again? (SOLD)
WINTER:
# K - Santa Frog. Where are the presents??? So, you still believe that Santa brings the presents? How naive are you? this guy lives in a pond, they would get SOAKED.....tssss. People..... (SOLD)
# L - Stevie Snowball. He is not happy, since his mom forgot to give him gloves, his toes are frozen to the snowball. Winter is supposed to be fun? Who are you kidding? (SOLD)
# M - Skunk the Skifrog. His mom had a crush that was a little out of the Froginary, can you tell? So, no wonder he had to fashion himself a little pair of ski, to skid down the mountain....whereas every other kid in the neighbourhood went down the hill the natural froggie-way: "No frogging way...." (SOLD)
# N - Rupert the Rednose Reinfrog....no comment (SOLD)
and finally, how could we all do without HIM: Michael Frogelo, (SOLD)
Thursday, September 13th.... I was a bit in a playful mood, so many of the frogs below have a little "twist" to them....hope you'll find one you would like to adopt.
(more coming every 5 minutes or so...)
# A - Smiley Frog, 19 mm from nose to butt, (SOLD)
# B - Sissy the Space Frog, 18 mm high, very adorable, with blue mini-murrini eyes and two little antennas.... (SOLD)
# C - Michael Meltdown, 15mm high, gearing up for winter in the NW....Michael is holding onto a nice frozen cylinder of sparkly blue, with icycles on the opposite side...don't let the sun shine on this one! (SOLD)
# D - Ferdinand the Flower King, 17mm high, (SOLD)
# E - Petronius the Petal Prince, 17mm high, (SOLD)
# F & G - Freud and Jung discussing the philosophie of dots, 16 mm, ..(he has some dichroic inside the bead) (both SOLD)
# H & I - Franklin and Fridolin, two Florists on a coffee break, 19 mm, (both SOLD)
# J - Babe, the baby chameleon from down below (the water, I mean), 2 1/4 inch long tube bead with fancy fossil decoration and a chameleon that is trying hard to blend in with something, it just doesn't know with WHAT... (SOLD)
# K - Albert on a bed of roses. 2 inches long. This (and the next) is probably my favorite floral+frog bead ever...there is just a great variety of flowers in a Monet-like look. The dichroic peeking through adds a little bit of glamour. I hope someone will give Albert a loving home. (if he doesn't sell, I'm not unhappy keeping him, hehe). (SOLD)
# L - Barnabie and the Buttbegoneia. 2 1/2 inches long, just pretty. (SOLD)
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Monday, September 3rd - Some of today's frog actually "match" some of the beadsets I have on the other page....today's photography-karma was extremely good, so, be aware of the "side-mirror-principle": FROGS MAY APPEAR BIGGER THAN THEY ACTUALLY ARE. I try to add the size of each frog in the description.
# A - Amber Alwin, matches the Satin Amber Chadwicks. 1/2 inch tall. (SOLD)
# B - Dotty Dagobert, 1/2 inch tall. (SOLD)
# C - Grey Garrett, 1/2 inch high, matches the Satin Grey Chadwicks. (SOLD)
The following two guys also match the Satin Grey Chadwicks, they are also "twins" and could be turned into a fun pair of earrings....(# D is SOLD)
# D - Grey Gunther, 1/2 inch, # E - Grey Gustav, 1/2 inch,
# F - Dan the Dichro-man, 17 mm high (sorry, can' | 
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