One Happy Beadmaker

Parcel Received

   What a happy little bead maker I was today, mid morning and a big parcel arrives from the pottery suppliers, Yipeeeeeeee !! A box full of raw materials and clay, flint, whiting, china clay and much more, now the games begin and tomorrow I get to make my first glaze. Some of you will wonder how a few bags of ground minerals could make me so pleased but it's the fact that I get to learn more with them, if it was beads it would be like making my own glass to work with, can you imagine being able to do that !

   With the amount of waiting bowls, pots and dishes building up at last I can start glazing , trying out lots of colours and designs, my god I'm in heaven, making new beads most of the day and then ceramics in the evenings, how could the year start any better than that.
   Again this evening I sorted out yet more beads to list in my etsy shop and the bead mountain as at last started to get smaller, tho not by much, tomorrow I will be sorting out yet more sets of spacer beads, I swear there must be thousands of them so they need to go.
   Still this evening the strong winds are rushing over the fens and for the first time in weeks it really does feel cold, hot water bottles are awaiting to be filled in the morning, they help when we first start work in the barn, plus the odd wheat bag in our chairs help make life easier, I guess those who work in their houses or in a warm studio miss out on these adventures, lucky sods haha !
   Well coffee time then it's bed for me as another early start tomorrow, I have a feeling it's going to be another very long day but an enjoyable one I'm sure.