I tried to get a 'moment' shot of Corina talking to Jim Berry (store owner and most wonderful store owner), but C caught me and smiled for the camera...She's got 'camera radar' and she's good...

These are my sidekicks...from left - Lydia, Dodie and Mick. We try to take classes together and cause havoc when the teachers will let us...We made a lot of noise in Sharon Peter's class, and tore up Loren Stump's class. We knew Corina would be in for a two day adventure packed day w/ the 4 of us in class...but she handled us with no trouble. Over the two days, all 8 students were in trouble with her at one point or another. I was 'lucky' enough to have water poured down my back after making a snide comment...Oh yes, she's good...

"I can pull stringers in 1mm thicknesses any time I want"...So says the master of stringer control...and she wasn't kidding. There is a reason her beads are so small - she works with the tiniest amts of glass and it goes just where she tells it to...

Here is the secret to her stringer control - use the pivot grip and 'move the effing bead'. We knew we loved Corina when that was one of the first phrases out of her mouth... Welcome to Texas, now sit down and move the effin' bead. Oh yeah, work on the right side of the flame, in the 'residual' heat. And buy her book, and take her class. All that helps too...

This is my cache of goods from the two days...I can see some hope in these beads, and some disasters - but that's what classes are all about...Most of my class beads from *any* class are crapola...as long as you take away the techniques and put them to use later, who cares what the class projects look like?