Pricing puzzler

My question:  How do you price a bead like this?

Rainbow Kaleidoscope

I'd joked that I was going to name it "Two And A Half Hours And A Burnt Hand" which pretty much sums up what it took to make this piece.  Anyone familiar with my work knows I'm a bit partial to rainbows... in this case, I decided to use *all* the colours; the result was that it took 2½ hours to carefully melt the layers whilst making sure the disc didn't melt down or become too wibbly.  At the end, I was so tired that I became careless and forgot that the end of glass rod that's fresh out of the flame is HOT!

Top view;  keeping the disc thin and straight whilst
melting down each layer was particularly tricky!

My problem is that now I've made a bead with which I'm rather chuffed, how do I price it in such a way that I'm covering not only my time but the skill involved in making it?  I don't intend to charge extra for the burn as that was my own silly fault ;)

Advice and suggestions appreciated...

Cabochons - Day 11

Yesterday's batch which came out of the kiln this morning:

Day 11 - overview

Quite a few nice ones in this lot again - closeups of my favourites below :)

Day 11 - Blue with orange and white dotties :)

This was a full bead before it was slumped but a couple of the raised dots had broken off (I dropped it on a tiled floor - tch!).

Day 11 - another donut

Another damaged donut made into a lovely flat-backed piece ready to be hung from a fancy donut bail or straight onto a leather or satin cord :)

Day 11 - that\'s a nice pair of cabs, missus ;)

I really like these - I'll have to have a hunt through my bead photo diary to see if I can remember exactly which glass I used here! You know... at this rate I'm going to start wishing for broken beads :D

Day 11 - interesting rainbow cab-type-thing

I have to do more with this bead - it definitely needs something in that big white blank middle! Maybe a dot of glass and another fire... maybe a bit of enamel painting... will ponder this some more...

Day 11 - teeny tiny cab pair

These are really delicate as they're quite small - just a little over 1cm tall. They'll make a lovely pair of earrings :)


And that's it for today :) If you want to see closer pics of any of the others, let me know...

The bead is mine but someone else made it prettier :)

I was mentioned in a Tweet by one of my customers, Anne Tweed today - my first ever customer Tweet!

Anne has made my Hue lampwork glass bead into a lovely bracelet. Here's the original bead:



And you can see the bracelet Anne made with it on ☛ her blog ☚

Thanks for spreading the word, Anne!