Ball #95

This ball came from my friend's son and was black. I painted it nickel shimmer and covered it with opaque mocha and chocolate brown, as well as translucent amber. It is accented with large clear translucent rounds and 3 amber butterflies.

Ball #82

Another ball from the Craigslist haul. This one was a brown swirl. I covered it with clear with a gold iridescence and cream opaque. There is a large clear round at the north pole and 3 amber butterflies.

Ball #77

This ball was given to me by a woman in my sister and mother's church in December 2009. Sadly, she passed away from leukemia in February of 2010. I'm waiting to hear if her family would like this ball as a memento of her, or if it would be too painful. It was dark silvery grey and I covered it with large & small clear peach, peach beach glass, opaque peach and orange metallic. There are also some clear butterflies.

5-21-11 Update - This ball was given to our cousins when we saw them for Dad's landmark birthday.

Ball #76

Another Catholic ball - this time a blue swirl. I liked the nickel shimmer so much I painted this one with it also. It is covered with amber iridescent butterflies, large and small peach, small amber iridescent, and clear iridescent with white cat eye.
Update: 06-09-10 - Sold via Craigslist.

Ball #52

I purchased this ball at the Lutheran rummage sale for $2.00. It was a turquoise swirl and I covered it in concentric circles of alternating turquoise, clear round and clear oval, accented with large clear and clear butterflies. ( I got a lot of mileage out of the butterflies, flowers, and leaves! They came from the Dollar General. I keep looking, but they haven't stocked them again.) This ball sold at the garden center during the 2008 summer season.

Ball #44

Another ball from my friend's son. This one was painted navy and covered with large and small marine assorted (cobalt, green, turquoise, aqua, clear), butterflies and flowers. It was given to a friend as a birthday present in October 2007.

Ball #43

Here is ball number five from my friend's son. (Spring clean up was very good for the bowling ball business!) It was a light aqua in good shape, so I covered it with large and small marine assorted and three butterflies. (I purchased the marine assorted marbles at Michael's. I'm not sure if they still have that assortment or not, but I especially like it.) This ball sold at the garden center during the summer of 2007.

Ball #39

My friend's son works as a truck driver for a disposal company. He rescued this ball and was nice enough to put up with it rolling around in the cab of his truck all day. It was red sparkle and I covered it with red marbles that had a gold iridescence. I also added some glass flower and butterfly marbles. (The Dollar General had some great shaped glass marbles during the summer of 2007.) This ball sold at the garden center during the summer of 2007.

Ball #30

Here is the fourth of six balls from the Baptist church. The first attempt was to paint it hammered green and cover it with rubber frogs which had been painted black, then hammered green. It looked really cute but the frogs kept falling off. I had sent it to the garden center in 2007 but the owner pulled it after several of the frogs came loose. So, I scraped them all off, touched up the hammered green paint, and tried again. This time I used large clear ovals on the equator, and a variety of large and small clear, plus clear butterflies, on the rest of the ball. I sold this one to my mother to give to her friend for Christmas 2007.