First beadmaking lesson today! Yay!

After waiting three years,.. I finally touched my first rod of glass,. and made my first bead today,..well 10 beads in fact….and wow, what a thrill it was.  I had a lesson today with Peter Minson and the day just flew,..we had lunch at 3pm because we were so caught up and I couldn’t believe it was so late.  Talk about getting lost in a creativity. I’m a little worried,.. I’m already time challenged,. and today it felt like someone snuck in and stole four hours from me.

We fast tracked through quite a few techniques for basic beads after learning some all-important safety procedures. I still have all my fingers and I didn’t sneeze in the flame and fry off my eyebrows like I imagined I would since I’ve sneezed at least 12 million times :} in the past 24hrs *cough*. 

I can’t wait to get back at the torch again. We have made arrangements for me to have another lesson, two weeks from now, so there will be no more beads from me til then *snif* as my studio is still not ready for flamework.  Hopefully,. by the time I have my next lesson,.. my studio will be ready,.. keeping my fingers and eyes crossed.

Here are my first beads.

In the order I made them, from left to right,.. beads 1, 2,3 & 4

beads 5, 6 & 7

 and beads 8, 9 & 10.

Too much fun was had in one day,… it should be illegal. :]