Hi!  Today’s Flaming Hot! BlogIt topic is:

Who do you admire?  Aspire to emulate?  Look to as the artisan you wish to be?  In setting goals and reaching higher where do you find your benchmarks?  Blog it!

I wish I had the business drive of JC Herrell and Kaye Husko.  Kaye and JC are really great at marketing, being consistent on eBay, and they both have awesome business sense.  I wish I was as organized and as energetic as Angie of BeadAddicts.  Angie makes me envious with everything she packs into one day.

I love glass and enjoy oogling all glass artists’ work.  If I had to narrow down my “admire” field to my “Top 10″ it would be:

 10.  Stuart Abelman-really cool frog teapots and vases

9. Lucy Weir-beautiful murrini, skeletons, and pendants

8.  Kevin O’Grady-fantastic boro murrini,  gorgeous boro bracelets and marbles

7. Al Janelle-precision detail work on sculptural animal beads and beautiful latticino canes

6. Jared DeLong-amazing boro glass artist, fantabulous glass knives and swords as well as beads, paperweights, and marbles

5. Andrew Brown-I love how Andrew melds his boro glass art with coldwork

4. Milissa Montini-gorgeous glass art pieces with murrini

3. Emiko Sawamoto-creates beautiful intricate tiny pieces of art, magnificent murrini too

2. Loren Stump- amazing American master of glass,  Madonna of the Rocks murrini and fantastic sculptural pieces as well as glass Venetian-style masks

1. Chris Buzzini- magnificent paperweights, they just take your breath away! my goal is to be able to take a class with Chris and create one paperweight!:)