A Glass Artist's Journey

I couldn't believe it! I have not posted a thing since October 2003 and here it is July 2004!!! Nine months of slaving over a hot torch with no contact with the outside world! Well, I am trully back this time.

It has been quite a journey - these last few months - I have come up with new designs, lost a dear friend and learned a few emotional and spiritual lessons....

I will call my friend J - J and I met because we were both looking for a kindred spirit in the glass world - we stumbled over each other on the internet and I thought we had become good friends. But circumstances separated us for a year and when we got back in touch things were just not the same.

One day I was browsing the net and there she was - J - she had opened a bead store right down the road and never even told me - was she afraid I would be competition, want to join? I don't know - but there was the store. I was a bit hurt prior to finding out about the store - because I had given J her first torch - and she sold it! That was my first torch for pete's sake and she just up and sold it - why? - because she was in California "finding herself" and didn't want to be bothered with bringing it back to NY -to much bother to take a less than one pound torch back to the original owner who gave it to her? Sigh - oh well, etc...that is all gone now.

I emailed J once - and she emailed me back - and I was supposed to call - but I just couldn't too much on my plate, to many hurts I didn't want to share - so here I am - a bit friendless, when it comes to glass folk! Goodness, I didn't write in all this time and now I am whining!!

I am so blest to be able to work in my own little studio making beads I love and selling them to folks who love them! So I will shut up for now and get back to work!!

Blessings!