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Ladybugs Lesson 2

JANUARY 23, 2007

Oh what fun we had!!!!
Today we got to embellish our beautiful ladybugs.
[Marilyn Radzat](http://www.marilynradzat.com/), our teacher for this class,
through [Gourd College Online](http://www.gourdcollegeonline.com/MarilynRadzatWorkshop.html),
is soooo great with such inspiration
and steps that are both easy and a challenge,
inviting us into new territories with material that is
so new for some of us!!!
Ulla and I get ready...

Check over all our materials... and, begin cutting...
and cutting...
Ulla, it turns out, is a mad cutting machine!

This is my first time ever cutting glass...I love it!
Here is one of my ladybugs with some glass to start...

I've used the word "imagine" for my first ladybug...

Ulla begins digging out the apoxie sculpt...

Here she is applying her first coat of beads...

And here are mine! This was such a satisfying process
with immediate results...

I found this part of the lesson to be very archetypal...
it was as if we were tapping into something ancient...
it felt Egyptian, or a technique from some far away land
where magic happens
and gold beads cling to your hands
like honey...

Ulla used a different color and sized bead
to go with a rosy-gold base...

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