Awhile back I took Joy Munshower's ‘surf and turf’ class as a weekend seminar (I think the full course is actually a week; ours was highly abbreviated, with day 2 basically being demos only) and we started first with a twist and swirl bead, which was very fun, onto which we put a jellyfish, mostly, I assume, to become comfortable with edging the bas-relief (a major component of Munshower's working method) and using a tool to make sharp indentations.

dead mouse...approx 10-1/2 inches (not including large keyring). Glass, basemetal, bicycle inner tube collar, sterling (the peyote link), beadalon. Manufactured, late 2019, photographed Dec 2019. N.b. two exposures were merged with gimp.

This is not actually the one I made in class; I think I looked up some real jellyfish photos and tried again, though without significantly improving; then got distracted by something else.^[1] After having this sit around for 4 years as a reminder to practise, I finally decided to mouse it. The beads include some leftover from a round-robin guild bracelet project, a boro spacer (probably made by Fran, as a gift), a [very] old bead (the violet/green/turquoise, probably made of PIG on the end of the left dangle) I fished out of a collection^[2] and some orange and green experiments.

The turquoise^[3] heart was a gift from my friend Page, and the purple peyote tube with sterling, from my friend Posy.

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