ok, weird coincidence I totally made this the other day and just read this now... weird, i made it basically the same way except with two rods cuz I fail at cutting glass, last time I tried I ended up with a nice scorch mark on my workbench. This is soft glass. BE light violet with white dots, the side that looks black just has a little opaque purple frit, and yeah, it's a craptastic picture cuz i took it on the kitchen counter at 11:30...