#29 and #30

...throw a hint of lapis blue, make some more beads, play....Put the beads together with others from the hoard.  String them with some pote beads from Nepal and, just for a change from the traditional bust, drape a new necklace on a stand from the tip.  A stand?  Who knows what it was.  Whatever it was, I reclaimed it, stuck a cardboard roll on top, and covered it with papier mache......red rock earrings, clumsily facetted, with blue stripes, borne as the result of a mistake.  Slicing into the wrong lump of clay.  A cane!  But I liked them and liked the process of slicing away and letting something else emerge... and then there was a day, after a night of not much sleep, when sitting and steadily slicing bits off beads was as much as I could manage.  It stilled my mind,  for a moment ....and that's #30, but who's counting?