Beware of Thief - Block Capt Ron!

In the past 24 hours, several beadmakers have had over $1000 in tutorials and physical goods stolen from them through chargebacks on Paypal. His/her Etsy user name is sundown487. Paypal user id is Capt Ron. JameyLynn at Howaco alone has had over $600 worth of chargebacks through a credit card - backed echeck on PayPal. Although the e-check was backed by a credit card, the e-check "bounced" after the goods were shipped.

Please check out this thread on LE for further details on what has happened.

mmmm, Blue Chalcedony

At our monthly Bead Cult meeting, Jamey Lynne from Howaco Glass Supply brought some goodies. Like so may other flameworkers out there, I am on the eternal quest to conquer Raku and all of its brethren. Chalcedony is yummy, and I hav ebeen able to bring out so many more colors out of it than I can can with Raku. Now, Gaffer has Blue Chalcedony. I can't wait to see what this one brings to the torch...

Also, Jamey brought some Red Lustre, which strikes and reduces to a golden shine as opposed to the silver shine of most silver reduction glass.

Ah, I love my addicitons!