Back to the torch...

My garage studio was just about the right temperature today to start up my torch & make some beads.  I had about 4 hours at the torch.  I am working on beads for canape knives & forks, hence all the barrel shaped beads.  I'm still enamored with fuming the glass with fine silver.  Now, to pull off the mandrels and clean beads....

The mailman brought me a new book today, "The Creative License", Giving yourself Permission to be the Artist you Truly Are, by Danny Gregory.  His drawings are free & amazing; his words, inspiring & thought provoking.  Oh, and wait, on the back cover, another reminder of one of my favorite sayings lately...."giving up the expectation of perfection....."  

Give up perfection!  

I'll leave you with that thought.....