Halloween Bracelet

3. Heat a yellow ocher glass rod to a molten state and wind onto the mandrel to desired size.

4. Remove from the heat source and allow to cool slightly.

5. Flatten the top and bottom of the pumpkin bead with mini mashers to about 1/4 inch.

7. Polish chill marks (small ripples) out of the bead's top, bottom and back.

8. Melt in two dots for the eyes and two v's for the mouth with thin black stringer (figure B).

9. Heat up the front of the bead (in the middle) place the paring knife at the top and score down the middle (figure C) to create the pumpkin shape. Heat up and score from top to bottom. Follow same procedures on the opposite side.

10. Flash the bead back and forth in the flame to keep it hot and from cracking.

11. Melt the tip end of the Nile green rod for the pumpkin's stem.

12. Place a good size dot of the Nile green on the top of the pumpkin for the stem.

14. Flash in the flame and plunge into the vermiculite for 30 minutes.

15. Repeat the process for the second pumpkin bead.