Bead up

Wow, an experiment gone well! The holes even go all the way through, no collapsing. Whew.

Yeah, I'm still here. Just been trying some stuff out. Techniques, ideas, turning mess-ups around.

I feel like Plastic Girl (not "Plastique"), limbs and brain stretching out into the cosmos somewhere. (One person I told this to said, "You mean like a cancer cell?", but she's just jealous.) As I'm doing one thing, other things to do with the materials in hand pop into my brain, and off I go on another experiment.

These beads happened because I was prowling around, looking for something completely different for something else, and I saw this stuff, and said, "Yes, pretty, but it's not having anything happen to it-- hey, let's try something!" and so I did.

And while I was trying to make my beads, they came out all screwy, and I kept trying to fix the screwiness, and finally got all mad and just squooshed them all up. And then saw the result and said, "Pretty!" Then, "Hmm, I wonder..." and 45 minutes later had these! Serendipity.

And one of the best parts is, they still have their holes! Oh, happy day!

Little things mean a lot.