It is good to take on a huge challenge with glass...it is humbling, in fact! This bead has the mandrel running through the top bead, which waited in the kiln while I made the floral section completely off-mandrel. The glass is Bulls Eye, a tolerant glass for the task of building a bead on nothing, and the flowers are cane murrini set in paperweight fashion. I hope to have more of these, maybe even with a straight axis, in the not-too-distant future!