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8. There are wild animals everywhere. And I don’t mean the students. While there we saw immature bald eagles, deer and racoons, just to name a few. In her front yard. Within feet of us. I’ve heard there have been Orca spottings out her front window too. Be safe and stay home…you wouldn’t want to come into contact with one of those, you know.

7. You could develop an addiction. You think you’re immune to tool addiction and envy? Think again and don’t test your luck. You will want one of everything. And Andrea probably has it there for you.

6. Your fragile mind could be forever altered. You may find out what a gooey duck is.

5. You might encounter Canadians. And like them. And that could throw you into a problem-solving tizzy every time one of your sweet new friends mentions how hard or expensive it is to get something to them up there. Or how difficult travel may be for them to get to events that the ‘rest of us’ go to. And you’ll start wondering why there is a border and can’t we all just be one?

4. You’ll never want to eat seafood again. At home, that is. You may find that the breakfast sandwich at the fast food place in the airport has better seafood on it than your own local sushi place.

3. You’ll go home feeling neighborly-challenged. After getting used to at least three people/couples/families stopping by the studio daily, you will feel inadequate in your day to day life where no one drops by to visit you ‘just because.’

2. You could lose your whole customer base. After learning what you’re going to learn you will never look at your work the same again. Your $20 beads will immediately be transformed into $75 beads. You could lose your whole customer base because of that. Stay home and save yourself the trouble that this will cause you.

1.  It may end your bead making career. You could go home having learned how to make the beads that I’m showing here and then…what else is there left in life?  You might as well hang it up.  You have just reached the end of the bead-making universe.

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Waiting in airports can be ok.  If you don’t have kids with you.  And you’re not in a hurry.  And you have plenty to write about.  And you need to decompress after a convention, class or workshop.  That’s me right now.

I’m sitting here in the Seattle airport after a weekend class with Andrea Guarino.  Do I look tired?  While we didn’t work until late into the night and I wasn’t our partying, traveling always does this to me…no matter how relaxed things have been.  A little makeup wouldn’t hurt though, would it?

My flight is delayed by about an hour and a half they’re telling me because the crew got in late and needed  to ‘rest’.  I’m wondering if an hour and a half is enough to be refreshed enough to fly again.  Hopefully the pilot won’t want ‘just 10 more minutes’ of shut -eye.

But anyway…this gives me some time to start composing what’s running through my head about the class and to get them ready for you.  So be watching this week and if you don’t want to miss anything, be sure to subscribe!

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Don’t you hate it when you’re cleaning beads in a bowl of water with your Dremel and one gets stuck on it while it’s rotating at about 4500 rpm and this happens:

I hate it when that happens.  But it could have been worse.

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This was the scene at a craft fair booth earlier this year.  The artist was selling hats for dogs, if I remember correctly.

Now, I’m not a dog person, but would someone please tell me how  you get this many dogs to just lay there the whole time and do this?  I mean, this show was on the square of a nice grassy park with food and entertainment and people with kids everywhere.  There was one more dog that wasn’t in the frame too.  Five dogs.  Just laying there.  All lined up.

Do you think they were drugged?  And why can’t you pet them?  It doesn’t look like they’d mind.

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Most people love piles of beads, right?  Here’s a little pile that I have grand plans for.  Large hole rings and spacers in light, airy transparent colors.  Can you just see these in a long linking looping necklace?  No?  Me either.  I mean, it sounds good and I have a slight idea but I haven’t quite figured it out in my head yet.  So, while most people like piles of beads, to me, they’re a bit overwhelming.  You should see the pile that will never see the light of day outside the studio!  I’m being haunted by them.

I seriously need to get into jewelry mode.  But I don’t know why.  I’m ready for a change.  A new direction.  Do I sound confused today?  My head is spinning a little.  In the last few weeks at the torch, what little time I have had, I have been playing.  I’ve been making everything from fish to spacers to buttons to charms to hollows to beads with words on them.  I’m surprised I haven’t made a bird since I’m seeing a lot of those around lately.

Of course, in the ‘playing stage’ nothing is perfected, there are many different variations on one theme and I don’t know where to go with any of it.  So I keep going.  There are so many things running through my head! Stop the voices!

On the upside…I have lots of beads to show you in the upcoming days.  Make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss any of them!  In a reader or have posts sent to you by email!

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