Rocky Mountain Beach Glass

After a whole month of listening to the tumbler slosh and roll, yesterday was "wash out" day!

It's pretty exciting to do this.

For one thing, it's almost magic that you can put water and ordinary sand and pieces of very sharp broken glass into the rubber container and a month later take out these amazingly smooth pieces of frosted looking glass.

At the far left a small piece of blue glass and a small piece of yellow glass left from the previous month's tumbling (both of them had been broken off of a larger piece and needed re-smoothing).

The yellow one is especially intriguing because it still retains the uneven surface it originally had although it is not as deep and well defined.

In the center are pieces that went into the tumbler orange and came out clear -- obviously the coloring agent for these was just a coating on the outside. These do have deep lines still, and on one of them a few tiny flecks of the orange remain.

And then there is the red glass which retained much of the impressed patterning it had when it went into the tumbler.

The DH has is working on wire wrapping some of this lovely stuff, and as soon as I finish the Diva necklace (I'm working on the fringe!!), I'll be making up some of these into some new pieces --- I'm still thinking about a bracelet.

time to get rollin'