My latest beads – are these not the coolest?!

The biggest one (the one that is farthest right) is 1.5" x 1.5"…I know what kind of bead I'm going to spend some time making!  These are made with borosilicate – they're also helping me learn to to work with hard glass (COE 33 I think) vs the softer glass I learned with (COE 94 – 104 and thereabouts).   I am so psyched!

thought for the day:  When you begin to awaken to your incredible freedom, the walls of your inner prisons gradually become the thresholds of your new life, your new place of growth.  The old walls can become the thresholds of new belonging which is now hospitable to the depths and directions of longing within you.  Your angel can liberate your soul from the false, tight spaces where fear, limitation, negativity, bitterness, and disappointment hold you.  The angel is the inner artist of transfiguration… John O'Donohue, Eternal Echoes