Linda Lee's Jelly Roll Balls

Here's another "how's you do that?" from our 2009 Christmas Exchange beads....

Linda Lee conditioned Green Premo clay and rolled into base beads.  Then she made a Jelly roll out of well conditioned Premo Green Pearl clay. She rolled the green pearl clay out into a sheet to about 1.6mm thick, making sure the mica in the sheet had shifted.  Then she created a jelly roll. She formed the jelly roll into tapering, carrot like shapes, which she then cut into random size pieces.  Each piece was rolled into little balls and placed randomly into the base bead. The entire bead was then rolled with by hand until there was a smooth surface. Beads were then baked, wet sanded and buffed.