Angelas Diner

I recently joined a blogging community of flameworkers called “Flaming HOT!” The moderator, Susan, posts inspiration for all of us members to blog about each week (which will keep me blogging since I’ve been slacking in my normal winter doldrums for a while now.)

This first post needs to be about the little things I like about glass work and my “glass business.”  Well, I’m too crazed to have a full fledged BUSINESS, so I’d rather refer to my glass working as my passion, my obsession.  It’s really what I look forward to creatively - and when I haven’t been torching (like NOW since it is just too cold in the garage for me!) I get into a place where I have to create other things instead.  So, that explains my recent knitting focus.

One of the best “little things” about glass I enjoy is receiving a new box of glass rods!  I have been buying from Gail in Tyngsboro Massachusetts.  I love how she wraps the rods in colorful tissue and ribbon.  I love opening the package and seeing the colors - how close are they to the pictures on the website? She usually tucks samples of frit in there to try as well - for those of you who aren’t lampworkers, frit is the tiny crumbs of crushed glass that are mixed in all sorts of colorful combinations.  So, for me, the littlest things, even frit, can put a grin on my face, and a itch in my fingers to go out (maybe even in the COLD!) and make more beads!