Today is yet more beading but with the addition of diagrams.

The worst thing about keeping my beading hidden for the moment is knowing what else to show you from my day, so please excuse the random photos. All around me is colour, wonderment and exciting things, but I spend most of my day with my nose down staring at my beads so forget to document anything else.

Today though I took a break from beading to consider diagrams for our book.

It is of course important to us to ensure that not only does this book inspire, invigorate and tantalise- but that anyone reading it can understand how to make anything from it they desire.

I have been drawing diagrams for many years now and was happy with them, but working on the book has given me the welcome challenge of stepping them up a notch and making sure we include all those extra nuances that we feel will help readers and enable them to understand what we're trying to express.

So, it is with a sense of excitement, trepidation and well, general terror, that I sit down at my computer and play with bead shapes and sizes, gradients, thread colour, arrow heads and many other aspects which need to go on in the background, but that will hopefully not even cross the mind of a reader.

Here is an example of an early diagram draft so you can see the direction we're heading in, as well as a picture of the mising owl plate which completes my set from Target. I am ridiculously pleased with both these things.