New beads

Took kind of a last minute class with Jill Symons at Blue Moon on Saturday (Jim and Rose are determined to get every last dime out of me). The class was on inclusions, and turned out to be quite useful. We mostly just did copper inclusions, but also some mica flakes - which I'd used one time in a Japanese beadmaking class, but never again. (And the verdict for me on those is still out, although a woman here at work immediately snagged one for herself.)

I'm particularly partial to the first one, the copper flowers on turquoise. I'll definitely do more of those. One other one that I'll try to photograph and get up needs, I think, etching, so it's not quite ready. Jill also loves the Picasso silver glass; I've worked with it a little, but it's still not one of my favs, although it does look spectacular with the copper. I'm most interested in trying some freeform copper cutouts rather than the little punched pieces....