inspiration

Here I am try­ing to blog every day for a month, four days in, and I have noth­ing to say. Do we call this “blogger’s block,” akin to writer’s block? Or is it just symp­to­matic of the entire day, when I couldn’t get mov­ing this morn­ing, was blah all through class, came home and fell asleep, and after din­ner made a very few, very unin­spired beads.

Since I was so unin­spired, I thought I’d prac­tice using my crys­tal press, which has been chal­leng­ing me ever since I got it. It makes beau­ti­ful beads WHEN you can get it to work right. How­ever, it is extremely sen­si­tive to the amount of glass you use as well as how that glass is placed. That makes it hard to get both a nice shape around the mid­dle, with well-defined edges and points, and nice ends that are even and smooth instead of lop­sided and sharp. It’s even more of a chal­lenge if you want encased crys­tals, since keep­ing the core from bleed­ing out the ends requires some­thing I haven’t dis­cov­ered yet.

At least tomor­row is Thurs­day — shorter class day (with an inter­est­ing topic for once), dance class in the evening, and a three-day weekend.