Today was an exceptionally busy day at the office. Between meetings, finalisng projects, answering post, sending out magazines and returning people's work, making phone-calls and doing paperwork I also managed to squeeze in a 2-hour+ session of filming for Bead-TV and photographing 2 projects for the next issue of Bead.

The projects I filmed for Bead-TV were 3 that appear in the next issue and will be free to view for readers until the issue after comes out. They were:
- My new Reversible Rivoli Pendants
- St petersburg chain doubled
- A lovely wirework and stringing project from Sue Simmons of The Bead Shed.

Filming was hard today as it was unbelievably hot in the studio and sitting for 2 hours under hot lights soon gives you a headache!
But, I like filming for Bead-TV as it gives me a chance to explain projects in different ways and hopefully to help those of you who learn in a more visual way a helping hand.

Back to the office for some fresh air and then taking photos.

We had 2 projects to photograph as well as lots of items for the Market Place, reviews and gallery pages.

The first project was my Rivoli Pendants and after some playing around we realised these looked best photographed threaded into a neckwire and laying flat on a patterned background paper.

So after taking lots of photos of the pendants at different angles and threaded on differently and turned over (5 pendants, each with 2 sides which can be shown = thousands of possible combinations!) we then took lots of them on a white background, individually, in groups, sitting up on their sides etc as well as some of the beads used.

All of these photos can potentially be used to illustrate certain steps or tips as well as show the pieces up closely to help you make them- all in all we often take hundreds of photos of each project!

Next up were some earrrings- and there were 7 different examples of them so we were spoilt for choice as to how to show them.

We had a lot of fun playing with different ways of showing them- I wish I'd thought to take photo of all of them!

Some involved hanging them on fantastic contraptions, some involved hooking them over the edges of different papers and there were lots of other methods involving different ways of hanging them or laying them down flat, so again hundreds of photos which myself, the photographer and page designer will mull over until we decide what works best- check out issue 18 to see what was chosen!