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Now that you have your larger dots covered with your amethyst, what we're going to do
is we're going to take a dark, emerald green, transparent and cover the smaller dots. Again,
we want to make sure that the base bead is heated but not soupy, and we want to make
sure that the green is soupy enough to press down over your white dot and cover it entirely.
You might also want to make a green stringer to do this, which is a thinner rod of glass,
just in case you think that you're a little bit clutzy. I'm using a full size rod of glass
right now. So again, you want to keep bringing your bead back into the flame. Make sure that
it doesn't get too cold and cover up these dots with green. And I think this one here needs a little more
glass. Remember, you want to try to apply your transparent glass as evenly as possible.
You want to heat that up a little bit on the shoulder, and we'll go over to the other side
of the bead and do the same thing. Remember again, you don't want your white dots to be
soupy. And now that you have all your dots covered, you want to again, keep the bead
warm. And right now it's going to look like a bead with some spindles on it until we get
some of the, the rest of the melting and shaping process done.