Where DID that day go?

If there s one thing that seems consistent right now - it is the speed in which the weeks are seemingly flying by!
A full day devoted entirely to taking, editing & loading photographs to my website seem to have taken a toll on my torch time.

Actually I am rather relieved to have something to show here though, even if it is just to prove that I don't play with nothing but Gaffer Chalcedony each time I sit down to torch.

In the glass I got a while back was some of the CiM "Poi". I had mixed feelings about the results I had seen with this colour as I had also ordered Grape Ape & Plum. I mean how many shades of purple/grape/plums does one need?

I haven't worked the Poi up in a bigger bead yet, perhaps the results will be different. But for now I like the fact that it has a nice earthy tone to it - especially when the Double Helix glass, "Psyche" is used for decoration & fumes the Poi to some extent.

Precious Poi - Accent Bead Set

Precious Poi - Beaded Key

Keys

For ages I have wanted to try putting some glass on keys. The only thing that stopped me was the feeling that I would be better put spending my time practising the basics.

For goodness sake, I was still struggling with getting nicely shaped, well centred beads on the bigger mandrels - what chance did I have of achieving anything remotely simialr on a key with protrusions getting in the way.

Having sourced some keys a few weeks back I finally made a start & it was much easier than I thought.