Hello All,
I thought it was about time I introduced myself into this group as I have certainly popped my head in many times during the last few years. My name is Jill Matheson and I am a lampwork glass bead maker. I was selling my glass beads under the user ID of puff-md (now la.jill) on eBay for a couple of years. I am taking a break from the torch for a while and focusing on polymer clay. I've worked with polymer for about four years making small sculptures. I thought it would be easy to make beads out of the polymer - well, it's been fun, but I would not say it was easy! I am currently making disk/lentil shaped beads and it's fun until after the baking part of it - the sanding, buffing and polishing, not to mention drilling a hole side to side through a disk shaped object is pretty work intensive, as I am sure many of you already know.
I look forward to being a part of the group - I will have questions and perhaps I will even have some answers.
Bye for now, Jill