Flaming Hot — Someday I want to…

…find a true sig­na­ture bead style, some­thing that, when peo­ple look at it, they think of me.? After a bit over two years of lam­p­work­ing, very part-​time, I feel like I’m still a dilet­tante.? I still spend a lot of time try­ing to learn the glass, how it flows, what the heat and flame do to it.? I keep try­ing new things ses­sion after ses­sion, just want­ing to know what works for me and what doesn’t.? Espe­cially with mov­ing from soft glass to boro, I’m still climb­ing up the learn­ing curve.? Things that I was start­ing to get the hang of with soft glass, like presses, I feel like I’m back to square one (at best) with boro.

Not that I ever want that learn­ing curve to end, mind you! ? That is a lot of the fun of it.? Still, I’d like there to some­day be some­thing, some bead, that when peo­ple look at it they say “aha, that’s a Julia bead.”