I headed off to Dorset today to teach at my Jaipuir Jewels projects at StitchnCraft Beads. I alway love teaching here as not only are the people and venue lovely, but I get to see all the new products and gorgeous beads for myself. This is of course not so good for my bank balance!

I escaped somewhat lightly today with only a few tubes of beads and some essential new products- including this amazing SilverSilk capture chain (you can see all the SilverSilk products on the StitchnCraft website here). My photo really doesn't do it justice- it's copper with tiny green sparkles inside and will be perfect for the new star I want to make in those colours. Well, the star wasn't going to be those colours, but seeing as this chain is so lovelt and it will save me beading a rope I can easily adjust my colours to match. And if I didn't want to they had a wide range of other colours to match...

Unfortunately this bracelet is going to have to go into the 'to-do' pile for a little while as I contine to work on projects for the book. But it will re-appear soon, along with exciting news of how you can get the pattern, and some other brand new ones from me, in a whole new way....