posted: Sunday, 28th June 2009
Today was the last day of our 3-day beading retreat and I have thoroughly enjoyed it.
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posted: Saturday, 27th June 2009
A trip this afternoon with our students to the gardens at the Abbaye de Valloires.
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posted: Tuesday, 23rd June 2009
Today I'm heading across to France to teach at the beading retreat myself and Liz Thornton are running.
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posted: Saturday, 20th June 2009
A busy day today which began in an incredibly painful, though fun, way with roller derby training. The less said about strained groins the better...
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posted: Friday, 19th June 2009
Back from Austria and to all the work that has piled up in my absence- so of course I'm procrastinating and browsing the internet instead and thought I'd let you know about some of my favourite bead and jewellery websites to visit as well as some I've newly discovered.
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posted: Thursday, 18th June 2009
Day 2 begins with an amazing breakfast buffet- with an unbelievable array of bread.
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posted: Wednesday, 17th June 2009
Last night I flew to Austria for a press trip to visit Swarovski.
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posted: Friday, 12th June 2009
Today was a day spent in Arundel and this time I visited the castle.
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posted: Monday, 8th June 2009
Today I had planned to spend the day beading with my friend, Liz Thornton, and experimenting with yellow.After a delayed start, due to work, I finally got to Liz's and in the afternoon we got cracking
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posted: Sunday, 7th June 2009
Today was more fun playing with yellow.
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posted: Saturday, 6th June 2009
I recently began a Donna Kato polymer clay bracelet and today I managed to get a chance to finish it.
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posted: Thursday, 4th June 2009
After all my saying how much I don't like yellow, especially with black, I realised yesterday that one of my favourite outfits (this yellow t-shirt, black cardigan and multi-coloured scarf) is based around yellow and black!
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posted: Wednesday, 3rd June 2009
Suzanne Golden sent me this photo of Geometric 1-8-1 on display at The Bead & Button Show where it had reached the finals of Bead Dreams 2009- if you see it say Hi!
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posted: Monday, 1st June 2009
The 3rd day of polymer clay and still 2 more classes to go.
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posted: Sunday, 31st May 2009
My second day at The EuroClay Carnival and two new classes today.
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posted: Saturday, 30th May 2009
I've headed off to Nottingham for 3 days of Polymer Clay fun.
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posted: Monday, 25th May 2009
More beading today and despite the fact I should be getting on with my latest geometric piece I decided to bead something completely different.
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posted: Friday, 22nd May 2009
In the middle of all the fun I've been having with my colour challenge I still have to get on with real work.
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posted: Wednesday, 20th May 2009
The latest piece in my Geometric Series is underway and its main colour theme is yellow.
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posted: Tuesday, 19th May 2009
After threatening to do it a few times I have recently started my own personal colour challenge and set up a new blog to feature it which you can see here.
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posted: Monday, 18th May 2009
Those of you in the UK who love food will probably be big fans of The Great British Menu which is currently on its 3rd series on BBC2.
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posted: Sunday, 17th May 2009
Busy day today with both a Valerie Hector class and a concert in London.
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posted: Saturday, 16th May 2009
Bead group today and I managed some more beading, though my experiments with my new crystals didn't go as planned as I didn't have quite the right size beads.
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posted: Friday, 15th May 2009
On the way back from Arundel today after a few days working in the office on Bead magazine and on the way back we visited the Cass Sculpture Foundation in Goodwood.
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posted: Tuesday, 12th May 2009
I'm going to be working on a colour experiment over the next year and will soon be setting up a separate blog or website to detail my experiences and will let you know where that is as soon as it's done.
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posted: Sunday, 10th May 2009
My last day at the Great British Bead Show and after teaching my Geometric Beaded Beads in the morning to another lovely group I am free to shop- and boy do I take advantage of the situation!
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posted: Friday, 8th May 2009
My second day teaching at the Great British Bead Show and it's day two of a 2-day Geometric Beadwork class.
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posted: Wednesday, 6th May 2009
This pendant is the result of my colour experiment I talked about yesterday.
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posted: Tuesday, 5th May 2009
I've been making more of my new stars so that I have some to show students in my classes this week.
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posted: Monday, 4th May 2009
When I bought the animals to make my recent necklaces, I also bought a lovely set of insects- these were extra cool as they came in their own tin.
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posted: Thursday, 30th April 2009
A trip to Arundel today to work at the offices of Bead magazine and I used the train journey wisely and finished beading the birthday fish.
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posted: Tuesday, 28th April 2009
Okay, after all my rambling the last week I decided I would try out calling myself an artist and it really feels strange.
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posted: Monday, 27th April 2009
Hurt FeelingsI've had a few emails from people following my blogs and some seem to think it was directed at them- it wasn't directed at any one person- just a kind of frame of mind.
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posted: Sunday, 26th April 2009
Had a fun beading day today which was to celebrate a friend's birthday.
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posted: Friday, 24th April 2009
If the last few days posts haven't put you off reading what I write, then I don't know what will!
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posted: Thursday, 23rd April 2009
I hope all of my answers have got you thinking.
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posted: Wednesday, 22nd April 2009
Following on from my previous blogs:
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posted: Tuesday, 21st April 2009
Following on from my previous blogs:
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posted: Monday, 20th April 2009
Following on from my previous blog, the next question I was asked was:
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posted: Sunday, 19th April 2009
I was recently asked a series of questions about being an artist and my work and I found answering them very interesting as they related to something I have been thinking about a lot recently.
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posted: Saturday, 18th April 2009
The ports are all open again so we made our way back home- unfortunately I have missed going to the Flame-off in Towcester so I hope everyone who went had fun.
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posted: Friday, 17th April 2009
Whilst in France we also visted Berck and saw these colourful beach huts.
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posted: Thursday, 16th April 2009
Whilst walking around France we found this great door with its lovely furniture. I especially love the pipe smoking handle.
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posted: Wednesday, 15th April 2009
Took a walk to the Abbaye de Valloires for lunch today. I ordered the cheese plate which comes in a different style everytime I order it, depending on what's fresh in the gardens.
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posted: Tuesday, 14th April 2009
We jumped on a train today and headed for to Paris. Apart from the usual problems with Parisienne hospitality and manners we had a great day.
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posted: Monday, 13th April 2009
I managed to fit in some crafting time today amongst all the computer work.
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posted: Sunday, 12th April 2009
I'm busy crocheting some bangles using Rowan Big Wool which I'll then felt and embellish with some beads.
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posted: Saturday, 11th April 2009
The only thing cuter than miniature goats is the babies of miniature goats!
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posted: Thursday, 9th April 2009
I'm on a quick jewellery kick at the moment- definitely a reaction to the big project I just finished.
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posted: Wednesday, 8th April 2009
Animals duly massacred (with a drill rather than hot needle) and strung with jump rings and wire, I'm now the proud owner of tw funky new necklaces.
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posted: Tuesday, 7th April 2009
Don't worry- it's not a photo of some wildlife massacre (well, not quite yet) just the materials for my latest project- a bit different than yesterday's more glitzy ones!
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posted: Monday, 6th April 2009
Ok- all that beading has definitely given me the beading bug again and I couldn't wait to get started on a new piece.
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posted: Sunday, 5th April 2009
I finally finished one of my competition entries and I'm so relieved!
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posted: Saturday, 4th April 2009
Had a great day today teaching my Viking Weave class with the magic drawplate (you'll just have to come to a class to find out!)
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posted: Friday, 3rd April 2009
Back in Arundel for a few days to work on Bead.
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