New Lentils

Here are some of the lentils I made a few weeks ago.

I really like the top two rows with the green and blue glass on the ivory (you can see the flip side below of the beads above). They are full of silver, which causes the dark veining out through the beads, as well as the dark outlines around the green or the blue.  I think that is one of the coolest reactions in glass and it doesn't happen better on any color other than ivory.

Those lentils on the bottom with the raku speckles have since been etched.  And the one on the right, while hard to tell in these two pics, is more of a tablet bead.

If you were bored by my wordy post yesterday, I apologize.  I know I have been a supremely shoddy blogger over the last few months.  And an even shoddier lampworker, going for weeks/months at a time without even sitting at my torch.  Life has been so busy, but I have also been lacking in the motivation department.  I have felt stagnant, knowing that I want to head in one direction and have been unable to do so this year.  I have slowly been regaining a sense of longing for sitting behind my torch, as well as blogging more again.  But it wasn't really until I read that book that a small spark just ignited.  It got the wheels spinning in my head about where I want to be and why.  How I will get there.  And also how others have gotten to where they want to be....which leads into a post for later this week on the people/artists/bloggers I admire and who inspire me.

So with that, I can tell a fire has been lit under my feet to do more and accomplish more.  It's time for me to get off my duff and start juggling all these activities and hobbies and passions.  I can do it.  I know I can.