I've been sick for the last few weeks (seems like forever!) and haven't really gone near the torch for more than a few minutes at a time, nor had the energy to do much besides rest and sleep. I'm feeling a lot better today and hope to get some torch time in this weekend to make some bead sets and maybe some sculptural stuff, or marbles, or......There's so much I want to do! Ah well, patience Grasshopper.

The hard drive on my powerbook died a couple of weeks ago, got it fixed, ordered a new MacBook Pro, hard drive on that crapped out a couple of days ago, fixed it, so hopefully all is well again with my computers. It's a good thing I had just done a full backup on the powerbook.

I received my acceptance letter from The Corning Museum of Glass, I'll be taking a week long workshop with Vittorio Costantini in June! I'm so excited!

The Damselfly I shipped last week arrived in one piece! I have two for sale that I'll post up here very soon in a new section, just have to goto the paypal website and get a button or something.

I mailed off a Damsel today packed in polyfill. Now to see if it makes it safely to it's destination. Keeps fingers and toes crossed. If it does I'll post a few to sell online, if not then they're available at Rock Garden. Should know by the end of the week.

I love working with Bullseye, it's perfect for sculptural work. I used Gold/Purple for the body, and managed to get some browning , I'll have to turn down the gas a bit next time. Also the 90COE dichro I have is old and dirty, I'll have to spend an evening cleaning it all with alcohol.