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Alright. What we're going to do now is we have our base bead coated in frith and encased
with dots applied with the petals pulled in to make flowers. What we're going to do to
add a special touch to this is take a cubic zirconia, a two millimeter cubic zirconia
from my graphite paddle down here and we're going to drop it into the center of one of
the four-petaled flowers that I plunged. This is always a little bit tricky. There are some
very interesting ways to use cubic zirconia. Now, most often I've seen them used -- oops,
that one dropped in upside down. Let's try that again. Most often I've seen them used
as the center of flowers, but I've also seen them used as belly buttons on goddesses, which
I thought was a pretty interesting little touch. So what I'm going to do is drop that
cubic zirconia right into the middle of that plunge. I'm going to heat it up just a little
bit and I'm going to take a clear rod of glass. Remember, you want to keep your base bead
warm. Now, you can't spin your bead, or else the cubic zirconia is going to fall out. What
you're going to do is you're going to take a clear rod of glass and you are going to
trap that cubic zirconia into the middle of that flower by applying a dot directly on
top of it. Then, what you're going to do is melt very slowly and that clear glass over
that cubic zirconia is really going to magnify that effect.