I had all these new low-fire glazes I wanted to test, but I don’t like the concept of test tiles. It seems such a waste. So instead, I made some beads to test my glazes. I instantly regretted it. Have you ever tried to paint a bead which keeps reverting back to the same position on a rod? Gravity made it very difficult. On top of that, some of the glazes (the crackle ones) were quite liquid, so the glaze gathered on the underside of the bead, forming… a bulge.But it turned out the glaze effects on the bulge were mostly nice and interesting. Beads are evil nevertheless. But I was lucky, only one stuck to the rod. There are 4 layers of glaze on each bead, with a fair amount of waiting for the glaze to dry in between each application. And this, on all the 40 beads. The time I spent on this is just crazy. I also discovered two enhancers which I absolutely love, it’s the Texturiser from Amaco and the Flux from Botz.