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Here's my feeble attempt at a turtle after Julie on Frit Happens Forum supplied the link to the tutorial for me. I've taken about 10 photos so far and none of them are good. I did have a good setup before Christmas but had to dismantle it when the kids came home. She's called Dorothy on account of her pale pink toenail polish.
Dorothy Turtle/Tortoise
You are allowed to laugh, that's the whole point of the exercise.

I bought some curved mandrels from Zooziss and this is the second bead I've made with a curve. It's not very long as I was a bit hesitant to use the full length of the curve in case I couldn't get the bead off after annealing. It's recommended that you use Foster Fire Smooth and Tough bead release with these mandrels as obviously it's impossible to twist the bead to get it off the mandrel. After soaking overnight, the bead came off the mandrel reasonably easily.

Spring has sprung and I've made a few flowers with my new press.
Five Flowers
I intend to make a set of the same colour and intersperse the flowers with glass leaves. These flowers were just to see how the new press behaved. I bought the press from Spheres of Glass
Some of the Canada Geese on Canvey Lake have started nesting,Nesting Goose

Every so often, I decide to make a hollow bead. Kat will know how I agonised over these at Christmas. Here are the two latest ones,
Spotted hollow
There has been some improvement since then.
Filigrana hollow