These pictures show a floral bead in various stages. First, I pull any stringers that I may want to use in decorating my bead.

Then, I make a small barrel bead using transparent green glass.

After I have the bead the way I want it, I add “vines” using my frit stringer.

I want my bead to have some depth while remaining smooth, so I encase the bead with clear glass.

Now that my bead is smooth again, I can add my final touch, the flowers.

I melt the white dots flat then add a different color to make the petals.

I like some of my petals to be round while others are pointed so I drag some of the molten glass out to a point.

Almost done! You can’t have flowers without centers, so I use a different stringer to plunge a center right in between my petals.

All that is left now is to reheat the bead and do any final shaping.

The bead needs to be annealed, so in the kiln it goes!

And here’s the finished product.

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