I think I made beads at one time...

For the last few weeks I've been making beads with mica powders and metal leaf...which means that running out of varnish to seal these surface decorations is a bad thing. (and the parcel containing the varnish getting lost so a replacement had to be sent was worse - I wanted to give the first pachage a good chance to turn up so I've been out of varnish about 3 weeks maybe)

I've finally got my hands on it now though, and so here's a biggish eye-candy post. The beads are up for sale on http://www.continuumdesigns.co.uk/shop

And here are some random necklaces I made:

To be honest, I've been looking at all of these things for so long that I'm starting to feel very tired, and like I'm stagnating again. I don't really like to use tutorials (I mean, I use techniques invented by others all the time of course, but I don't like to have a tutorial in front of me), so I feel like I'm winging it a bit, and my work is not progressing. Another problem is I tend to like my work until I see it in macro (ban macro!) and I see how not-perfect everything is.

Any tips anyone?