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Here's lookin' at you, kiddo.

This marble started out as a black core with white, hot yellow, amber yellow, hot orange, and hot red rod twisted around it. I thought it would look nifty. Instead it looked awful; the white "curdled", the marble came out squatty (oblate) instead of round, and it was generally a write-off.

So I threw it back in to the kiln, picked up new poles, and put a splodge of black over the awful ugliness at one of the previous poles. When I pulled it out of the kiln the second time it was still incredibly ugly, but now one side of it looked like a staring, bloodshot, evil eye. Since this matched my feelings about this marble, I grinned and kept it: the Angry Eye marble, pretty much the expression of a newbie glass worker early in the morning, looking at some horrible thing that just came out of the kiln.

"But it looked so much better when it was hot!"