Bead Making Day 2

There is no rest for those on a 2 day course eh? Ah well, needless to say I'm up early again, though now I know how long it takes to get to Leicester from here I can afford a little bit of a lay in before I scoot off up north again.

Today, we get to do more advanced stuff with the beads since we'd learnt the basics of it all yesterday and we do a wide variety of decorating and other techniques such as:

Gravity twists
Twirls
Dots
Flowers & Encasing
Applying stringers and twisties to beads

All in all I had a great time and I've really got the bug now to set up my own workshop and start producing properly. Figuring it out I reckon it would be about 1000 quid once you'd got all the equipment (most of that is a kiln for annealing, which you need to do if you want to sell commercially) and I'd have to clear out the shed too to make some space, but for the enjoyment you get from doing it, it might well be worth the investment.

So here are a few pics of what I made, do bare in mind these are my first attempts!