Going back to kindergarten

Ok. So I've learned to solder, forge, cast, pickle, pierce, saw, dap, mill, set, bezel blah blah blah. I've accidentally electroplated a nickel silver box in pickle solution by using steel wire for the spiral hinge I made (gasp a pleasant surprise for me but not necessarily anyone else who used that batch of pickle sorry folks. I made a good bezel for a ruby cabochon then proceeded to melt the bezel in the microtorch. I never did learn when to let it alone. Then I thought of my little blue bag sitting patiently in my studio across the hall from my bedroom. The original tools of my trade. A pair of cheap needle nose pliers, crimping tool, plastic wire jig, dollar flush cutters, spools of cheap but perfectly serviceable wire from Walmart's craft section and trays and trays of beads. At least 5 sectioned craft boxes worth of them. Mostly glass, some metal, mixed in findings a few chinese porcelain ones (not many f those left one recently found it's way to the end of a piece of yarn for a string on my ceiling fan). They have been cat toys as well (wood floor + glass bead = happy cat). They are so versatile but I forgot to make a place for them. It's like forgetting about the finger painting or the crayons from kindergarten and moving up to high school art and using neither anymore.....but some of the best contemporary jewelry I've seen lately uses both...I've been to busy to remember my roots. Time to go back to Kingdergarten and stop feeling like a failure when I mess something up in jewelry class.