I've taught over 30 virtual classes now and I absolutely love them.

They allow me to teach people all around the World all whilst being at home and surrounded by all of my beading samples, beads and finished beadwork which means almost instantly I can respond to a question about something by showing an example on screen.

They also mean everyone gets to clearly see all demonstrations and not miss any instructions or responses to other student's questions etc.

Plus very importantly they have opened classes up to people where physical differences, care issues or venues not being fully-accessible meant they didn't get to do in-person classes. This is wonderful and I'm delighted that this is a good thing to come out of the pandemic and plan to continue with virtual classes indefinitely.

They also meant that today when the lovely student Elaine Glazer was in class I could run into the other room and get the fabulous glasses she kindly gave me all those years ago!