Beaded flame flower

Semi-randomly came up with this last night; haven't completely tied it off yet because I'm not sure what to do with it. (It's fairly huge-- ~2" across and 1.5" high-- and heavy because all of the beads are glass.) I'm not completely happy with the methodology that I used, which seems as if it could be optimized... will probably try some other versions based on the same general principle, but with a different colors and component shapes. ( cut for huge pic )