Now this is where I started. Just a few things inside the beads and some work on the outside. I even pressed some in a large press trying to figure out what shape looked best for the beads.
	Then I made some with nothing on the outside. And tried to put a little fish inside the bead. He is on the side of the bead so it is hard to see him. I pulled some encased dichro to add some sparkle to the bead but what I found is it added a lot of tiny bubbles that I did not want. These beads also looked like little blocks of ice to me.. ditched that idea.....
	So back to the drawing board I tried making them in the rounded pressed shape. Some turned out not too bad and this is when I started to try and add jelly fish to the mix. But the pressed shape although nice to wear it was not doing it for the whole idea of an aquarium.
	Oh the trials of the jelly fish. So I am now at a point where I am pulling 6 to 8 different rods of murrini to get the little things I want to put inside the beads.. Also trying a number of different pulls to achieve just the right colors that would show up in the jelly fishes trailing thingys.. I am spending more time pulling things at this point than I am making beads.

	Starting to see some improvement on these beads. Ideas are flooding my brain and sleep is almost impossible. Tried another pressed one with some shore attached.. not too bad. But I am really liking the round ones with some of the shore attached.. I make three or four beads and wish I could take the best from each one and put them all together in one bead...KSC
	Ok now I am getting some where. Round is definately the shape that works the best. I now have fairly good jellyfish and their hangy down things are showing up better..  shoot I gotta look up what that word really is.. Too busy in the shop for a dictionary. Anyways. I have little sandollar things, sea flowers, coral, seaweed, and other crustations that really are not but they look great inside the beads.. Lots of bubbles to get the water affect...
	Well finally I feel I have achieved something. The beads are looking better and better all the time. I am getting more and more things in one bead. They flow nicely and the jelly fish are actually looking like they should. After some thinking I realized I need to have them sunk in deeply not just a bit... The ocean flora feels right.. makes me want to snorkel there. The coral looks like it is floating on the waves. Ahhh almost there.. Now I need to figure out how to make little fish murrini and then I will be set.
I absolutely love this bead. Now if I could jst get a little fish like Nemo to swim through the coral I would be happy. There is always tomorrow and no sleep tonight.		Stay tuned for more in the continuing saga of Kerry's aquarium beads Christmas break 07

Ok here are some more. Feeling a bit more confidant with the working of these, but still have to work out some problems. Love the angle of this one.	But around the other side of that bead lies this horrible coral I made. Thinking thicker would be better..mmmm	The fish is awesome in this one.. I did it! I got a little fish swimming through the coral,, but then the jelly fish did not show up...@#%@#$
So here I started playing with some other color combos for reef life.. Loving these flower things..	Blue coral,, funny I know,  but it shows up great. I Might have to put an orange fish in there..You know complimentary colors and all.	Just when I thought things were going good. The coral around the fish is fuzzy. The fishes eye, too big. !@#$#%
Good grief..!	Okay so someone in this house said I should squish them again,, what was I thinking... Although the bead is cool, it certainly is not an aquarium bead..	The fish is cute,, but really now, can you tell it is a fish?
So I went back to the dark brown and white sand dollar things. I like them. I like this angle too, you can see the fish swimming away.	But again the jelly fish do not show up,, !$%@$%^@#	Coral got fuzzy and I  am even topping it with clear. But all in all this bead is not too bad. Fish is cute.
Used some 96 frit over white trying to make sure the jelly fish shows up.. well it did, not too bad a color and this bead is actually looking like I want them too.	Okay I have repeatedly got the fish to work.. now it is just a matter of getting the coral to work all the time and then I will be done..	Doubling up on the jelly fish tentacles and I think it is helping. I like them to be white,, but that fades out sometimes. Working on a darker background helps,, Duh..
This is the best one so far. The picture does not do it justice. But I  am finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel..	Interesting shape. I spun the @#$ out of it Alexx Cheng style while it was still fairly hot.  Not a bad bead.	Another view of this shape in my fingers. Gives you an idea at how big these puppies are.
	Continuing on my journey. The search for the perfect mix of glasses for the jelly fish and the coral and  the right combo for the fish and sea life.

	Finally I have found the right combination of glasses to create  the jelly fish and the coral. With that done I started working on bead shapes and changing things a bit. The next few beads brought about a whole new look.
	I wanted to have something on the top of the beads. I did not want to put a starfish on there because tha thad been done by others. So I was thinking waves or something.
	From the working with the idea of waves and using DaVinci glass I realized that this looked more like something else, an octopus! So it was to be. My aquarium beads have an octopus on the top. The first ones only had 6 legs so they were called sextapus.. but the last one shown here has 8 legs and is called 'In an Ocotpus's Garden in the Sea' Ask me if I have been singing the Beatles song much?