It’s the Little Things… Blog It!

Little things, where do I start?  My love of glass probably started as a seed when in HS I was going to be a ceramic engineer, loving chemistry, math, and problem solving.  How the heck did I end up a Clinical Social Worker working on a PhD in Public/Population Health?

 I love the REACTIONS in glass.  I love the physics in glass.  I love having the glass teach me as it provides me therapy in “melting” the day’s problems away!  I love the AWE in observing the products of my and OTHERS creativity!!! 

 The sisterhood I have found in the glass world has recently sustained me when my professional world COULD NOT!  The “thinkers” as they are known on LE, are always there for me!  There are days that “thinking” does not have ANYTHING to do with work… LOL.

 Glass, the little things.  Life is frit, Frit makes pretty colors, Pretty colors make sweet beads, Beads and Glass make life bearable…..

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another NDN girl…

Jami is so talented: glass, silver, and fiber, oh my!!!

http://www.jamihamilton.typepad.com/

She’s also another Kansas City area NDN girl.

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We all hang on to the familiar. What is your staple glass object you continue to make and why? Blog it!

Today was the 1st day I was able to melt glass in 2008.  Being a returnee to graduate school, working full time, and having family obligations make glass a luxury sometimes.  It’s not such a luxury that it’s “only a hobby” because it’s my salvation, my therapy, and my sanity.

My staple today apparently was making Valentine or Heart beads.   I often make these even when the holiday connected to it is not right around the corner, but I had fun making them today.  I found myself making familiar olive bead shapes with my most used marver/press, the Val Cox Marver by Zoozii’s.  But I also found myself looking at my other Zoozii presses and realizing that I have “outgrown” them.  I am considering selling most of them or trading them for larger versions of themselves.  I more frequently make large beads and focals rather than sets, thus the “outgrowing”. 

 Now the decision point, do I sell or trade them or do I keep them and stretch myself into the unknown of making sets, thus developing my skills in “consistancy” or do I continue where my heart takes me and keep making honkin’ focals???

 This is also my first blogpost linked to the Flaming Hot blog.  Go over and check out the work of some of the most amazing women in glass today!  They are inspiring, not only in their glasswork, but from their hearts as well.  See where I get that heart theme???

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Joolz by Lisa, Classic!

http://lisaliddy.wordpress.com/

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