MrsMopar

Wowwwwww Okie! Fantastic! My husband told me to stop drooling...lol Ain't that purple popeye da bomb! And those baby blues...oooo...and you got over 500?! No wonder you've been awol...lol Thanx so much for posting. Have a great day! :-) Felicia

How do ya get them? I think they are really awesome! Thanx for the info. :-) Felicia

That second one is fabulous! Can you explain a bit more about this 'wash out'? I think it would be way kewl if folks were able to get an example of one of those..they sure are different! Thanx for sharing and have a great day! :-) Felicia

Woo hoooooo...just got back from Marble Mental and David Chamberlain has posted the top cat's eyes. Check it out: http://marblemental.yuku.com/topic/1519 :-) Felicia

LOL...funny! Kewl, love plants and gardening...can't wait for the weather to settle to get my garden growing. :-) Felicia

Bo, that's an intriguing agate. Funny thing is, quite a bit of yesterday, I had spent going through some Britannica's we have here and I read about agates, how they come about and the dying process, etc...fascinating! Have a great day! :-) Felicia

LOL, kinda like your own personal study hall when no students are there...is ag agriculture class? I tell you, I don't blame your excitement one bit. You got a wonderful variety all in one bucket...I know that would be the thrill of a lifetime for me. Treasure hunting is a kinda hit or miss but when you hit that big score..yeahhhhhhh! :-) Felicia

Is this what yer looking for Okie? http://www.marblesgalore.com/gallery/chris...n-agate/flames/ Lots of examples there. :-) Felicia

WOW! That's fantastic Okie!!! You done good..looking forward to seeing some pictures! (hint hint) Gotta love great finds like that. :-) Felicia

Beautiful disco! Thank you. Nearly the end of the month folks...anyone else have any blue beauties to share? :-) Felicia

I'm not an old marbler but yeahhhhhh buddy! Let me see those beautiful marbles, old, new..whatcha got!? They're all good! Have a great day! :-) Felicia

Those are really neat! Even as a re-creation, they are still lovely and colorful. Thanx for sharing. Have a great day! :-) Felicia

When I ponder these things, sometimes I do it out-loud and it tends to cause my husband to respond. He has been drawing and painting some 30 years and has seen many colors in paints. He said that when the word blood is mentioned, he automatically thinks red as well as the stages of colors it goes through until it has dried. Did you ever notice when you paint a wall, as the paint dries/cures there is a change in the color level/tone? He also described to me how, by using the appropriate stain, that in a wood, such as mahogany, which has natural red tones, can bring out those tones even better. Now, I in turn, proposed to him that oxblood could be a descriptive word for a color, like pea green...when you hear pea green, you can relate to the greenish color of a pea...with just those two words, it is descriptive enough to automatically bring the object to mind. He then said, take white for example..there's eggshell white, off-white, pearl white and others, they are all shades/levels/tones of white but they are all in the white catagory. He doesn't know much about marbles but he does know colors and went on to explain a color in his paints (I can't think of the name because it sounded weird) that is the color of tarnished (?) copper..it's some sort of green. <shrugs> Just go through your house and see the various levels of one color, say blue, you'll find from the lightest to the darkest, they are all blue but the shades/depth of the blues vary. Just adding the viewpoint of the artistic side.

As discussed in another thread, various makers had their 'form/type' of oxblood. I, personally, believe the bottom is an oxblood. Have a great day! :-) Felicia

Fascinating! You are right, so many questions. How does one contact Mr Laub? I had thought to find out previously and got side-tracked. I believe you, Steve, had mentioned something about a transcript? I would love to be able to read that! I had tried earlier to contact Mr Graham through the Canal Fulton Glassworks site but webtv...being uncooperative, again.

That's fantastic! Learning tools/pieces are extremely helpful. It's the 'you have to see it to know it because pictures don't always tell the story'. I Love it! :-) Felicia

Well, the blue blood wasn't what I thought it would be but....via the Search Engine here, I found something fascinating. The "Pretty enough to be Jabo" thread had made mention of red, blue, pink and purple oxblood! First thought was ohhhhh purple and pink, man I'd love a marble with those 2 colors of oxblood! Second thought was Mr. McCullough's innovation and creativity has brought this about. Third thought, since these colors do exist in the Jabo oxblood family, is it not possible that in the years gone by, that orange could have been one to qualify as part of the family? These are just thoughts and ponderings on my part, things that are a curiosity to me, that helps me to better understand what I consider the 'fascinating world of oxblood'. :-) Felicia

I have read and re-read the posts, looked over the pictures and through a book several times and something kept jumping out at me. I pondered these thoughts: ORANGE! hmmm..Alan showed some cullet, one looked particularly orangey, 1DanS showed some marbles which, on my tv screen looks orange. If I am reading the book right, orange was mentioned. I'm thinking perhaps as a color level of getting to that red that becomes the 'oxblood' color? Marblemansion had a fun oxblood guessing thread and the one on the upper left 'seems' to have what it could take to be an oxblood variation, but it too has an orange hue. Now I have seen references to 'blue blood' which I still need to look up...but are there different 'shades/colors'..like could there be orange oxblood? What other color possibilities could there be? Granted, oxblood does seem to be more of a marble term, but is it just limited to red? Are/could there be off-shoots from that term..like with the blue blood? Is there a broader color spectrum than is generally used when the word oxblood is involved? Well, off to try find out about this 'blue blood'. :-) Felicia

Ohhhhh...Duh on me...lol Yes, I did visit and I enjoyed it. Loved the corkscrews and the MK oddities/rarities. Now, your last "is it oxblood or not" has me pondering..not to mention something about that top right in this post. I will begin a new thread on that. Thanx and have a great day! :-) Felicia

I am looking forward to the cat's eye thread from David Chamberlain. It seems even more special and appropriate with Marble Mental having the longest cat's eye thread. Lots of lovely cats there, some are absolutely amazing! :-) Felicia

Fantastic..what a great design! Here's a list of glass artists (scroll down the page, you'll see an alphabetical list). http://glasswizzards.yuku.com/reply/10618 I cannot see it on your picture myself so I hope it helps. Some artists have webpages if you google their names, you can find out more about them and their work. :-) Felicia

Kewl! Trick question...lol Sorry I cannot go to your blog..it's on Etsy, which is one of the websites that bounces me offline but I surely will try to remember to look at it when I go to the library. Oxblood is such a fun and yet strange creature and you're right, you definitely have to experience the look of it in the various marbles. Thanx and have a great day! :-) Felicia

Pastels are soooo kewl! Love it! Thanx Burt! :-) Felicia

Do my eyes (and my tv screen) deceive me..are there pinks and peaches in some of those? (both picture posts). Gorgeous!

What a gorgeous box! Who made that..it's a treasure on its own. Beautiful marbles have once again come across the Jabo machinery to add to the joys they bring to so many, not to mention another page in the history books...creativity at Jabo abounds! Have a great day! :-) Felicia