I wasn't finding just the right bead in my stash the other day for an upcoming project. Then it dawned on me....crackled glass marbles! That's what I needed! This technique has been around for a long time and it is sometimes called fried glass marbles. In the past I've bought crackled beads.....But it's so easy to do. I put some glass marbles in an aluminum tray and got my little toaster oven out, the one that I use just for crafting, and set the temperature for 350F. Once the oven hit 350F I put the marbles in the oven for 20 minutes. When the 20 minutes was up I removed the tray with oven mitts on and I dumped the marbles in a plastic bowl of cold ice water and within minutes I had some really cool looking patterns in the glass. I didn't have safety goggles on so I made sure that I wasn't directly over the water bowl just in case some glass broke. None did, but you do hear hissing and crackling. I baked some small round ones and some f