The beauty of Spring

This morning the sun rose slowly over the treetops in the distance. I can hardly wait for all the last signs of Winter to vanish...

Shortly after that, when we started our daily school run, the lawn in front of our house glistened with thousands of tiny dew drops.

Really beautiful!

This looks like the perfect setting for a bunch of colors. Yesterday I made some cabochons. I wonder what I am going to do with those...

Short update on beads in March

It has been a while since my last post.

Well, time flies! Here are some updates of my recent work.

small bottle for the little finds on a walk on the beach...

clear glass and stripes - hard to resist

Essex Lampworker's Gathering

Although the weather was really dreadful yesterday, we drove to the Barleylands Craft Village in Billericay in order to attend the gathering of the Essex Lampworker's group.

We had so much fun. Not only that the five ladies of the Murano trip were reunited! We met a couple of new faces and very talented lampworkers!!

Sally Carver demonstrating an implosion-bead

"Glass from the past" soon filled up with numerous glass-enthusiasts and lampworkers...

I especially liked the store front. Varios artists have participated in making the large stained glass window above the entrance...

Unfortunately I did not take any pictures of the meeting or the bead-swap. (I was too busy browsing through everyone's bead stash...)

However. The afternoon just flew by and everybody seemed to have been satisfied with all the new impressions. I'm really looking forward to the next meeting.