Necklace of Copper, carnelian and lampworked beads, earrings of copper and carnelian.  $90 and $22 respectively.

The great thing about making your own lampwork beads is that no one else can exactly duplicate your piece (self included). Here are my latest favorites. 

Have cleaned my office, set up my jewelry center in a new room and cleaned the main and garage studios.  Am working on a beadwork piece and then maybe down into the garage for some lampwork.  If it isn't too humid in there…no A/C in that space.

After a regular coffee meet with a good friend yesterday, I came home refreshed and knowing that I need to start making some steps in certain directions.  I think I've been stuck a while.  Moving but not doing too much new (okay, the lampwork beads and slumped glass are both new…one of my problems is that I seem to expect miracles from myself.  I keep a sign close that says:  Baby steps spart miracles (Tut).a A lesson I tend not always to remember).

                                                                                                                                                        Necklace with lampwork torso and pewter dragonfly, and lampwork, pearl, carnelian, fire agate and labradorite beads.  Earrings:  copper, pear, carnelia, fireagat.  $110 and $25 respectively.

I made a list of "what I want" – which I will revisit for 10 or 15 minutes daily to elaborate, prioritize, rewrite, and revisit.  I plan to do this for a month or so and see what happens.  There are things astir in the Universe (good ones) and I want to be ready so I can see them when they come knocking.

Here's my list:

A community to retreat with.  In actuality, there is a small group of beaders/beadworkers forming "girls' night out" right now and I'm part of it.  I have been thinking hard about Christine Kane's Up-Level Your Life coaching program.  And then coffee girlfriend says she is thinking of coaching (and oh, she would be so great!) and I have offered to be guina pig (or freed hamster as the case may be).

Space to make the exquisite for the appreciative.  This requires a certain demographic that can afford to pay for my "exquisite."  Perhaps if I just continue to make it (beadworking), they will come.

Travel to refill my spirit.  I have been too long in one spot.  I need to move and see new things.  Perhaps alone.

A freed hamster.  Ok, this goes with my visual of a hamster in a wheel.  Hamster was front and center most of last year after Phil Buyer's Market failed to be as big a deal (buyers were in short supply) as anticipated and as I realized we were indeed in a recession.  I put the hamster, duck taped, into a corner and set my crone over her.  She escaped and hit the wheel again.  Yesterday's conversation was:  get rid of the wheel.  Afterwhich, in quick succession:  get rid of the cage, build her a home.  This is a collage project.  Then last night I dreamed of moving into a new home.  And my interior visual has indeed changed from hamster on wheel to hamster out and about and exploring.  This is a shift that will bring its own changes.

Change the pattern of fear which always manifests as $$ issues

Trust the process (an old Goddard, where I got my masters, adage).  I know the words, now I  need to get the words into my body.

Hire help to deal administratively and cold call with my current and potential client base. 

Now you know what beckons.  You can hold me accountable for getting there!

thought for the day:  [typepad has once again "improved" and I'm not seeing how to get text and photos to line up – sorry!)

real thought for the day:  Though we may move with care through a fog bank. as accidental entrepreneurs we can rarely afford to stop altogether. …One step.  And then you might pause, sensing the warm embrace of the fog….And now you see with your inner eyes that you will always be given everything you need to take one step.  Molly Gordon  The Way of the Accidental Entrepreneur:  The practical path to building a business that fits "just right"