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I say I don't really do them, but then I do. I also say, 'commissioned beads, such as cats, dogs and owls start at £15 each, not including p&p' but sometimes it is less than that, it's a moveable, flexible feast. Sometimes it's too hard to interpret what a customer wants and I can end up making several items in the pursuit of one that is 'right'. When I've poured effort into something that might normally be £8 if I had made it with natural flow and not prescription, and after all that I haven't made anything else for my shop or dealt with things for other customers, that's when I want to say 'I don't do commissions, because now my head hurts and it's not worth the difficult labour birthing this thing unless I'm charging at least ooh, £300 a pop (but hey, that includes the photos and emails, bargain) £15 just isn't close to covering it'. So, you can try me, and I will probably be very obliging, (I usually am, and also, I really like it when it works out and people are happy) but occasionally commissions are depressing, and they can kill creativity.
Starter kits are available from www.tuffnellglass.com, and if I could get this widget to let me make that website address into a link, I would. Click the picture, that'll take you there.

This bead started life out as a cat, but I saw it just wanted to become a bird, so I let it, and I love it.

I saw this dog waiting patiently outside the shop, it looks so much like my dog beads that I had to take a picture. I love how it's legs are positioned.

A bead I made in 2008 is part of the internationally touring Tempest Glass Bead Exhibition. Click the picture to see it, and other work by talented glass artists.

I make things out of Fimo too...more about that coming soon (aka 'one fine day').