Torchin’

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 [...]

Time Management

I belong to another forum of lampworkers.  The question of the day is how do you manage your time when you are self employeed as an artist.  I sure wish I knew.  I try to set up a schedule to follow but I never seem to manage to do it.  I really need to get [...]

Frustration

I am so through with this.  I’m tired of hurting.  I’m tired of having trouble walking.  I’m tired of being tired.  I am so through.  I’m glad I see the doctor on Thursday–assuming I can get out in the snow.  I have a lot of questions.
I want to go and make beads on Friday.  There’s [...]

Goin’ to the Dark Side…

No, I’m not doing that.  LOL  I do hot glass.  I LOVE hot glass.  There are very few things I love doing more than hot glass.  But I do ’soft’ glass and have hundreds and hundreds of pounds of soft glass rods.  There’s another kind of glass called, surprisingly enough, ‘hard’ glass   or borosilicate [...]