Sculptral Snowman Bead

I do not usually make many sculptural lampwork beads, and I really cannot explain why that is. When I make them, I am usually quite happy with them, but I seem to forget to even try and make them.

This week, we had a meeting with some local lampworkers, and we had decided to do a bead exchange. We had agreed on making winter themed beads. My original concept was to somehow morph one of my donut beads into a snowflake. I still think that is a great idea, but when the day before the exchange rolled around, and I had not even attempted a donut - snowflake, I pushed that thought off to another time.

For a couple of years, I had made snowman beads in my head. Do you do that? Practice something mentally, but never actually do it? Well, I do, and I thought that it was high time that I made a real life snowman instead of a virtual snowman.

Here he is (you know that I absolutely, positively, had to put a twistie on him!):