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Interview And Bead Fair

posted: Monday, 29th September 2008

A fun week with a visit to the publishers of Bead Magazine to take photos and pack up contributor's work and copies of the magazine.I also fitted in some filming for Bead TV and met and interviewed Rosie and Tjobbe who are travelling around Britain on their craft tour

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Clay And Nostalgia

posted: Monday, 22nd September 2008

I went to Bead group on Saturday and had more polymer clay fun. I made a skinner blend cane a few weeks ago and turned it into beads which I baked and strung. 

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Read All About Me

posted: Wednesday, 17th September 2008

I'm delighted to say a new profile on me has been just published on World Artisan Gems and you can read it here.

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Beaded Beads And More Web Browsing

posted: Friday, 12th September 2008

More geometric beading this week and I've managed to finish the latest in my series of beaded beads- it's the one on the left in the photo. As you can see I now have 8 of these done- a long way off my target of 88 or at least enough for a necklace

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New Jewellery All Round

posted: Tuesday, 9th September 2008

I have managed to finish my new beaded earrings 'Peacock Petals' (look out for them in issue 14 of Bead Magazine).

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Work And Clay

posted: Friday, 5th September 2008

I'm back from France and hit the ground running with a busy week of work.First up was the first of two photoshoots for my new book

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Exotic Travels?

posted: Tuesday, 26th August 2008

So I'm on my travels looking at Datura, banana and kiwi plants, so where am I? Northern France of course!

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More Geometric

posted: Thursday, 7th August 2008

Today I finally finished Geometric 2-8-6. I started this back at the beginning of July after loving one of the motifs I came up with as part of Geometric 2-8-5.

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Fun With Clay

posted: Tuesday, 29th July 2008

Had an incredibly busy week last week but took Saturday off to have fun and spent the day playing around with Polymer Clay. Despite all my previous hopeless attempts leaving me feeling distinctly un-optimistic beforehand, I had a great day and am really pleased with all the beads I made.

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Busy Beading

posted: Wednesday, 23rd July 2008

Phew! I have been very busy beading and finally managed to finish Geometric 2-8-5 and am now merrily working away on 2-8-6 as I loved one of the designs on 2-8-5 so much I wanted to make a whole necklace using it!

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Final Day Of Instructions Week

posted: Friday, 11th July 2008

The last day of Instructions Week and todays instructions are for a Freeform Cuff.

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Day 4 Of Instructions Week

posted: Thursday, 10th July 2008

Day 4 and it's free instructions day!

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Day 3 Of Instructions Week

posted: Wednesday, 9th July 2008

Another day, another set of instructions!

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Day 2 Of Instructions Week

posted: Tuesday, 8th July 2008

Today is the 2nd day of 'Instructions Week' where I will be adding a new set of instructions every day from Monday to Friday.

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Week Of Instructions

posted: Monday, 7th July 2008

Back to London and back to work. Not that I didn't work hard in France, read on to see just how hard I worked!

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