Never Been Easy But It's My Life

   I know some people who have just found my blog were probably expecting a very different one, one of beads and more beads and I'm guessing some may be a little disappointed that this is not the case, but I'd like to thanks those who have messaged me telling me how much they have enjoyed reading the past posts. While I love my job and adore working with my flame, I also love the countryside in which I live, I love the village life, it was what I was born to and after having some really tough times I now enjoy every day as best I can, trying to include this in the posts I publish.
   When I first started making beads, like many others I became involved in bead groups, I sold at bead fairs and I entertained buyers here at my studio. But after a while I began to find the politics and all round way of life more and more uninteresting, yes I wanted to earn a living selling my beads, but having to befriend people just so that they may buy was not something I enjoyed and sadly many bead makers did and still do such things. So I began to keep myself to myself, I enjoyed working away in my own little world playing with the magic that only glass and fire can produce and what others were making never really excited me. I was never a follower, I wanted to walk the small lanes of learning rather than jumping upon the big highway grabbing hold of the latest fad like the majority of bead makers, I knew it was a risk keeping to myself but it was what I loved, every morning opening my kiln was a treat, some days I was disappointed,others I was thrilled by the results I saw, but most of all every time that kiln door opened I was looking at beads that started as my ideas and that was and still is important to me.

   So if your looking for just a bead blog, well I'm sure there are lots out there, if your looking for a blog which tells of the everyday life and feelings of a bead maker who as experienced the good and bad of the bead world and who choose to be different, then your at the right place. I can't promise every post will be super interesting of indeed exciting but I can promise they will be truthful, so to all those who have just found the blog, welcome, please feel free to comment on any post and I hope you enjoy the coming posts.