Steph

No, but now I know. *thanks be to Google*

Need to get the Seattle marble peeps into your address book in case this happens again.

Some pictures from the party Happy Birthday Lou

I see your Pelts and CAC's .... that little wobbly painted-looking CAC is still so cool ... glad you were able to get it ID-ed in person. Chad posted stuff in the gallery today, and there's a place where I could comment on his pic, but still not on yours. The universe is conspiring against me commenting on your marbles, but I have a way. The universe will not stop me.

That made me misty eyed. Not kidding.

Ooooeeee ... those are plum. (couldn't resist)

oh my .... *I better stop whining, huh*

They look like colorful brains. hehehe ... maybe the zombie in me is coming out .....

Thank you!

Oh my gosh yes, so do I. And it's nice to have a big brother and little brother.

Oh gosh, I'm not even sure it was in the 80's when I was whining that day ... might have been ... but when I checked online the reading wasn't I was picturing ... which now makes me scared about how I'm going to take it next weekend when we hit the 90's. It's just that we don't have AC. So *whine*.

Nice breadth in today's offerings.

These are likely to have been made in Asia. The style which is sometimes called Imperial.

And that's cool too. Never crossed my mind to try to make it. I would surely prefer it fresh to canned. But now that I see the recipe -- and see you use the word "suet" -- I'm having second thoughts. I didn't know/remember that it had animal fat in it.

Cool.

The odds are very low that any confetti marbles that you'd find in the wild would be collectible. Very very very few Vitro confetti marbles were made. They weren't sold in stores. And then there are the Christensen Agate Guineas which some might think of as confetti marbles. But pretty much what you would find in the wild are from Mexico or Asia and not collectible.

I soooooo want to try that. Is that available here? Okay, I'm definitely putting it on the shopping list.

LOL ... that's a day to remember ...

Here are some photos of pontils: http://marbleconnection.com/topic/20970-pontils/ Machine-made marbles have "cutlines". They can be small points, little U's or V's, or longer lines. That's where the marble begins or ends ... where the glass was usually cleanly and simply snipped off before it dropped to the rollers. That's the little pucker that you are seeing here. Trying now to get some pics gathered up showing that effect.

A need as arisen of some more pics of the basic, simple cutlines that you can sometimes feel with your fingers but we know are just ordinary as-made spots and newbies think are maybe pontils. Anyone up for that?

This is the one he said Alley on? That's comforting, because my immediate first thought was Alley. Which one did he say CAC on? Did you get a picture of that one?

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies

You're welcome. Probably wouldn't be prudent for me to be receiving mail right now. Too much in flux here. Sorry about that.