Artwork

…Once upon a time there was a Pooka that really liked glass. She loved seeing what it could do, how others used it. So she started learning to work with glass, to manipulate it in flame and turn it into works of art. Months turned to years and before she knew it she was arriving at the two year anniversary of her start date at the torch…..

Yep. February 18 will be three years! I can hardly believe it! It seems like just yesterday that Melissa was sitting me down at her torch to melt glass. My first beads weren’t worth writing home about, but they were MINE!

These were the first ones:

Yep, those were in fact my first beads. Since then I have learned that glass can do amazing things. Two years later the explosion that comes from thrusting a rod of glass into the flame too quickly still scares the heck out of me!

Then came the first beads at my own torch.

Since then my skill has grown, there have been many times where I've been called away to another set of things to do but I've still been enjoying glass. I make all of the beads for the Key Pendants that are at most of our gigs even.

There are some of my newer pieces