My last attempt at a blog was pure personal whinginess, after a pretty screwed up year.....
All in the past now. This one is PURELY professional, a personal diary as I am setting up my own business. There'll hopefully be loads and loads of gushing about wonderfully exciting things, but plenty of whiny bad days too..



Not a fab start today.. this week I have done two days glassmaking for work and hell, have I suffered. A day off today, although I am ITCHING to get back in there. I SHOULD have been in there!! Thankfully I have a really high pain threshold so the fact I am covered in burns and blisters is no big deal. What is bothering me right now is the pain I am getting inside both wrists. I'm putting it down to pushing myself to the limit yesterday and the day before, but we got so much done!! It's weird, at the time I don't notice the agony, it comes later.. must just blank it out somehow. Common sense does tell you that if you are constantly infront of a 1400' C furnace all day, then it will start to sting at some point, even with the glass-makers telling me to take a break because they could see I was waning.

But that's 'proper' work. The rest of my time is spent working on MY project which is my kiln-formed glass jewellery. I set up really recently and I'm just getting going on it. The 'Big Push' hopefully get it into a few shops round and about. I just want to build up a reputation at the moment rather than focussing on money. I love making it. Everything about it makes me happy. I can't even begin to describe how passionate I am about it. I love seeing my ideas evolve and take shape and finally to be able to hold them in my hand is just the most amazing thing. It's important to me, because it is MY little private business. I can develop it as I choose, I'm so protective over it as only I know the amount of work I have put into this venture, and no one will screw it up for me. That way, if I fail, I only have myself to blame. But.. saying that, the support I've had so far has been amazing. So many people willing to help out in any way, loads of advice from them, really touching. I just want that big break, but I don't ever give up!! :)