More beads.  The ones on the right are halves.  They broke. The ones on the left didn't break and I even got that red one with the blue goosebumps to work (I call it sputnik).  There are 2 with orange centers and clear cover that may or may not make earrings.  I'm waiting to see if they break.  I can't tell whether or not there's a crack.  They remind me of the old cat's eye marbles.

Then I tackled the 36 x 36 canvas and I'm showing it to you here because it took off in a totally unexpected direction and I realize I was going back to my usual  techniques so I think most of this will get covered up and I'll go from there.  Husband came home early for him – 8ish.  I forgot the club was dark and he went in to do maintenance.  So in he comes and I'm all spread out in the kitchen and he's hungry.  My space got all invaded and it probably was just as well because now when I put paint on top of the picture it won't turn into mud.  I think that's probably what I'll play with this evening as it's cold in the garage and I'm going to blame the broken beads on that.

 I woke up thinking of a silver chain necklace with charms (I have a bunch from when I used to wear a single charm around my neck) and beads.  Which would give a home to these practice pieces.  It would be very eclectic.  And since I'm an eclectic kind of gal, that works for me!

thought for the day:  The visionary artist is the first person in a culture to see the world in a new way.  Sometimes simultaneously, sometimes later, a visionary physicist has an insight so momentous that he discovers a new way to think about the world.  The artist uses images and metaphors and the physicist uses numbers and equations.  Yet when the artist's antecedent images are superimposed on the later physicist's formula, there is a striking fit.  For example, Monet's haystack series, the representation of an object in both three-dimensional in space and changing time preceded Minkowski's formulation of the fourth dimension – the space-time continuum.  Leonard Shlain, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess:  The Conflict Between Word and Image