posted: Sunday, 30th September 2007
Taught my Viking Weave class yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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posted: Saturday, 22nd September 2007
After last week's burlesque day this Saturday was spent at Circus School!
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posted: Tuesday, 18th September 2007
Had a fantastic day out at the Warner Textile Archive in Braintree, Essex.
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posted: Monday, 17th September 2007
Just got back from a lovely weekend away. On Saturday we visited The Volupte Lounge for Afternoon Tease
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posted: Wednesday, 12th September 2007
I'm still working away on my cuff bracelet. In between crocheting, viking weave and wirework, I'm managing to squeeze some beading in!
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posted: Saturday, 8th September 2007
I taught my wirework class today and came home all inspired to get out my wire and beads.
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posted: Friday, 7th September 2007
I managed to finish my gnome and he's very happy living on top of the TV with his mushroom and flower.
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posted: Thursday, 6th September 2007
I finished a new Viking Weave necklace today as a sample for my class at the end of the month. It's a great technique that's really easily and fun to learn, and is also for those days when you want to make something but don't want to concentrate or follow a pattern!
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posted: Friday, 31st August 2007
Went to the London Crochet Meetup (or here for the blog) for the first time last night- and really enjoyed myself. It was a great group, doing a range of crocheting and knitting, including someone doing an amigurumi cat- a lady after my own heart!
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posted: Thursday, 30th August 2007
After looking at my new cuff I've decided I'm happy with the colour of beads I'm using, but not the use of the two different colours of gemstones! So I've taken the green ones off and have replaced them with turquoise pieces.
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posted: Tuesday, 28th August 2007
Straight on with my new cuff today. Although it's only a very early work in progress, it's already been through some changes.I wanted to do this new one in blues, then of course wanted to add in some of my favourite turquoises and teals.
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posted: Monday, 27th August 2007
I finally managed to finish my new embroidered cuff today. I wanted something a bit more glitzy- and I sure got it!
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posted: Sunday, 26th August 2007
I began this cuff back in July and although the beading only took a couple of evening, it's taken me this long to turn it into a finished piece.
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posted: Tuesday, 21st August 2007
Yay- the family is now complete!
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posted: Monday, 20th August 2007
How cute is this?
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posted: Sunday, 19th August 2007
Bead group today and I finished mummy owl!
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posted: Saturday, 18th August 2007
Received my latest sampler today and it contained the most beautiful necklace- how chuffed am I?!
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posted: Tuesday, 14th August 2007
I finally manged to finish my Eye Bead Necklace that I started a while back. I really enjoyed choosing the colours for each 'bead' and am now busy making these as individual beads for another piece.
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posted: Monday, 13th August 2007
Got a great email out of the blue last week. I'd entered the Bead Art Awards back in March and then completely forgot about it.
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posted: Friday, 3rd August 2007
Had a lovely day visiting Lille. We went to the Palais De beaux Arts (or here) which is an amazing building. There was a great exhibition on 'colour' which featured a piece by Anish Kapoor who is a wonderful sculptor
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posted: Wednesday, 1st August 2007
With 'beach huts' that look like these, how could you not fall in love with Le Touquet?
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posted: Tuesday, 31st July 2007
I'm having a lovely time in sunny France! Getting to catch up on lots of reading and have also started crocheting away. I've so far managed to finish my goldfish- just the snails and owls to go- God bless Etsy!
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posted: Wednesday, 25th July 2007
I manged to finish a new Peyote Stitch bracelet today. It was inspired by a scarf I bought recently and will feature as a project in Issue 8 of Bead Magazine. I finished it on the train to Arundel where I go to visit the publishers and take photos for the magazine.
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posted: Monday, 23rd July 2007
Endured in bit of culture today. Went to the 'Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan' exhibition at The British Museum. You can see some more items pictured here. I absolutely fell in love with Tokuda Yasokichi III's 'Genesis' bowl- so beautiful in real life.
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posted: Friday, 20th July 2007
She's been on her travels, but Geometric 3-4-1 came back to me today- along with a great ribbon!
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posted: Sunday, 15th July 2007
Yay- my herringbone experiment has worked!
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posted: Thursday, 12th July 2007
Ok- am I the only person completely addicted to Etsy? Surely I can't be?!?!
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posted: Friday, 6th July 2007
I spent the day with Liz Thornton today and had fun photographing her felt beads project for the next issue of Bead Magazine. I came home eager to get my felt out and make some of my own. Once I'd made them, all I had to do was embellish and string them to have my own funky felt bracelet.
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