Well...hello. :) I always wonder WHAT I can write about me. It's not my forte. I can tell you that I love creating glass beads and the jewelry using them...but I can't say anything like "oh...I'm inspired by {insert something artsy here}. I sit down, pick up some glass and play with it. Sometimes it's pretty awful. Sometimes it amazes me. I'm pretty sure glass has a consciousness of it's own....lol...and definitely a sense of humor. I've been playing with hot glass since 1996, with some time off when I was care-taking my mom...but all in all I guess about 11 years. I enjoy it. I enjoy learning about it, developing skill with it, and experimenting...What I don't like is endless repetition of the same old thing. I like to go a little outside the box. This results in some absolutely wonderful beads, but technically? I'm not particularly upset if a bead has a wobble here or isn't "perfectly round"..etc. I go for the effect, the texture...the overall sense of ..well...beadness. I still wear a bead on one of my braidwraps which a couple of extremely skilled beadmakers have told me simply can't exist. It is now 13 years old. It has never cracked or shown any sign of non-existence. LOL. It has solder, silver, & a bit of baking soda cased over some ancient cobalt blue. It's my universe bead (remember the cat?). Anyway...no one told me before I made it that I couldn't do that. That's how I go about making things I guess. I sit down and look to see what I have, and then I create something with it. I just hope you guys like it. Thanks for checking me out here! Namaste'