Colors you thought you'd like but didn't?
 

I'm wandering through the glassy goodness available in the various lines, and thought I'd ask about colors that made you drool, you ordered them, and once you melted them & made something.... disappointment struck. I read something someone said the other day about the colors that just sit & collect dust now, and wondered why.

Which colors did you buy but now they just sit... and why don't you like them? Did they turn into poo? Just not your cup of tea?

When I started I had no idea what it was I would enjoy doing, what kind of beads I would make. I don't use a lot of the pastels. I never use cobalt or yellow. I don't make sets of beads that are all about color.

Light turquoise - I never use it. Just not a color I'm fond of anyway, I don't know why I bought it back awhile.

The opalines. I love them before I use them, but they are too finicky at this stage of my bead making. Maybe when I am better.

I did try something that I think was an alabaster (not labeled) and burnt it up, LOL.

:lol:

I really thought when I started lampworking, that I'd make brightly colored beads. I've got some yellows and oranges that I never use. I bought them thinking I'd probably make cool bumpy beads, and expected to use bright colors in most of my beadmaking. LOL It turned out that I like making organic beads. So yeah, while some of those colors are pretty in rod form, they will never end up in my beads. (unless I'm being forced to make hideous beads for my mom.....)

Canyon de Chelly. I just never get around to using it.

--Joy

I figure the bright colors I'll use for BOC beads, to brighten up the kids strings, but maybe for myself too, since I don't have enough experience yet to know what I'll like using, but I can see where if you head in a different direction certain colors might just not fit.

Joy I had to look that one up, and on first look I made a face, but then I looked closer & read that it was a silver & struck to a variety of colors, and now I may need some, LOL!

Loverboy is a lovely color in rod form but sucks when melted!

I think I almost ordered that one when I bought glass, but had run over my limit so didn't. Maybe I'm glad now;)

Sepia unique. Just looks like grey bleh!

I love Lover Boy! You have to work it like Tongue Pink to strike it and get the pretty pinks and blues! Or just send it to me ... And I'll take that Canyon de Chelly too, yum ... Opalines too ... And Light Turquoise ...

Not so much

;)

"Like Tongue Pink"... I think I have some from the hand pulled shorts, what do you do special with it if you would be so kind as to share?

I"m not a huge fan of the alabastards either.

:lol:

I thought these were so pretty in rod form when I first started lampwork.I don't think I've touched them since...but I'll take that Canyon de Chelly,I love it! American Beauty..you can have it.

Calico

But that one looks like it would be so pretty!

Calico. Anything that devitrifies should have a warning in bright red 48 point font.

Hey, I bought some calico, but haven't used it yet. I was excited try it. Dang...am I going to be disappointed?

Well phooey! Now I'm not so excited anymore.

The only colours I have tried so far (out of quite a selection, since I am a hopeless addict) that I have acquired really bad feelings for are Dark Violet, Anise White and Sepia Unique #2.

I really thought I would like Dark Violet because it's a really pretty deep colour, and although I'm not really a purple person, I like the way purples react with other colours. But blech. It develops this really unattractive brown livery disease when I use it.

I wanted to love Anise White because it is so reactive, but it's just so hard to use that I'd really rather sit and make 5" long beads with 1 mm stringer than ever touch it again. It's so shocky that it is almost unusable.

And Sepia #2 was a huge disappointment to me because Sepia #1, the first Sepia unique had gorgeous reactions with silver and I was hoping that the other unique would as well. It doesn't... it's just boring. And boily.

I have love for everything else so far, even colours that I am not normally attracted to. I used to hate Yellows and Cobalts, but I have somehow found some love for yellow. Cobalt I'm still leery of, but maybe it will grow on me too.

Moss Agate. It looked interesting, but when I tried it, it wouldn't do anything. Just a greyish black.

Honey Crunch, not because it isn't attractive, but it's frit on a stick. And I even love Anice white, which so many people have problems with, but I can use it no problem, but Honey Crunch frustrates the crap out of me.

So I shouldn't throw that shitload I have into your Chrissy pressie?

Dalai lama - I give up, I'm RAOGKing it to someone

Kalypso - I'll persist but it's getting on my nerves

You can RAOGK it to me :kiss:

I totally agree!!
It looks so pretty on the web - but it's not.

CIM Ghee (explodes and does nothing for me when melted), Poi (muck), Effetre Cherry Shake (washes out), Chocolotta Verde (muck)

HEY! Is there a rod exchange in here somewhere? I'd be happy to pass along some I can't seem to manage to use!

Oh, I see a rod exchange too. I'm seeing some names I use a lot.