We finally managed to launch our newest baby- our new website Beading In London. My designer in crime has done a great job and I hope the website proves to be popular and useful. I get lots of emails from people who are planning to visit London and want to know where the shops are, places they can visit etc so thought it would be good to have all that information in one place.

It was nice to get the details of the first London Beading Day out as well- planned for 2nd December 2006 the theme will be bead embroidery- full details can be seen on the site.

Beading wise I've been playing around with more triangles- no surprise there! I find them so satisfying to bead. This time I wanted to develop the beaded beads I've already made and bead a linked chain. Cue lots of beading and calculating inner and outer edges as the central hole needs to be able to fit two triangles and they need to be able to move freely. All very easy until you add in the fact I want them to look nice! I wanted nice fat triangles, not skinny ones. Lots of beading later – you can see my samples in the picture- I got what I wanted and managed to begin my necklace. After working with so much colour recently I decided to try a black and white based palette.