And now I'm reconsidering that omission. Back in the summer, I made a lovely scrolled cone with silver glass stringer and a pastel base. During reducing the silver fumed the base and changed the color to a lovely green -- a green that you can't buy in glass. I remember thinking that the color shift was really strange. In fact I thought it started out lavender. It was a gorgeous bead, but unfortunately it cracked. No problem, I thought; I'll just remake it after I return from the Gathering.
Ha! I have yet to make a bead like it. The closest I've come is this lovely blue bead, called Winter Sky Scroll. This was made some time ago, and now I don't even know which colors I used for this attempt to reproduce the first mystery combination. I could tear my hair out!
Tonight I have a couple of more systematic attempts at rediscovery in the kiln (that's all I had time for today). I'd say neither is it, although they may be nice of themselves. I am recording my experiments. The scientist resurfaces.