One of my favorite things to do is work with hot glass to make beads. I don’t have a torch set up at home…won’t even go there…so I don’t get to torch as often as I would like to. Tomorrow is torchin’ time!
A great friend of mine, Mari Johnson of Blue Fire Beads in New Lenox, IL has a hot glass studio set up and is wonderful enough to have Open Torch on the first Friday of the month. I usually go early so I can have lunch and a nice long afternoon of torching with Mari. We talk about everything in the world while we torch. There is just something so amazingly relaxing, invigorating, wonderful about melting glass in a 1600 degree fire. I never thought I was a pyro but I think I am.
We have a great group that comes too. Patty, Jo, Jennifer, Kathy, and I are always there. Jennifer is pretty much coming all the time now and she’s a great addition to the gang! Jason and Heather show up when they can but they have to come even farther than I do so they don’t always make it. Jeff and Lorraine are sporadic as well. I miss seeing them when they aren’t there for a while. Sweet Lana hasn’t been for a while and we look forward to her coming back so we can give her all the hugs that she needs. Diane and Ellen almost never come but we love it when they do. I’m sure I’m forgetting someone and I apologize! We torch and then we go eat.
Mari’s birthday was on the 30th so I think we’re going to have a little party for her. Any excuse for cake, you know.
I’ll show you pics of the beads that I make. I am going to try to do little sets for earrings. I’m not always good at doing more than one of something so wish me luck.
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