About This Time of Year

In June of 2010,

I took a lampworking class from 

Sara Sally LaGrand

at the Bead and Button Show in Milwaukee.

I learned how to make her glass corsage and glass necklace!

I think,

more than any other glass class I have taken,

this class has impacted me the most.

About this time of year,

I feel the need to make more pods, leaves, craters, headpins

to put together a small sculpture or necklace.

Last year,

these are the corsages I made.

 

This year, the urge to make struck earlier.

I'm still working with all those shorts I showed you earlier.

I am amazed at how many beads I am getting from them!

Included are the beads you'll see next.

I'm making a lot of pods, leaves, flowers and craters.

No matter how many I make,

I have found I need many, many more.

So,

here we go.

I'm making some wire pieces, like this wire nest and wire pod to add to the sculpture this year.

I'm still not sure if I'll work with dark annealed wire or copper.

Maybe, both?

I'm not sure.

I have a lot more craters made, but I took these pictures a few days ago, so

I haven't gotten them photographed yet.

These leaves will be fun to use!

Here are some headpins!  I think I'll make more of these!

Here are some pods and a flower.

More pods!

A flower and a pod.

Some leftovers from another project.

When I'm finished, these all might or might not go into my project.

About the only thing I know right now is that I am going to add more wire to whatever I made.

What do you think,

copper or dark annealed wire?