posted: Friday, 28th December 2012
I have barely left the house this trip to France so today we went for a walk to get some air and remember what the World looks like.
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posted: Monday, 24th December 2012
...who cook for you.
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posted: Saturday, 22nd December 2012
...to today and all I can really tell you is that I loved my graphic design course but then flu hit and I have been pretty much grounded ever since.
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posted: Monday, 10th December 2012
This week I am attending a 5-day course at Central St Martins on 'Graphic Design for Beginners'.
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posted: Saturday, 8th December 2012
When making Geometric Beadwork available for sale it was very important to me to support bead and book shops. The biggest rival to all of these shops is of course Amazon whose buying power and business decisions means they can sell books at a loss which smaller businesses can't compete with
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posted: Friday, 7th December 2012
I have got a manic time coming up with a graphic design course all next week, packing up new books (plus deciding when to order the second edition as the first batch are nearly all gone..
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posted: Wednesday, 5th December 2012
This bangle is the second piece in my new series of 'Suspension' geometric beadwork.
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posted: Monday, 3rd December 2012
When I was in New York Suzanne Golden introduced me to the colourful work of John Vidakovic. Of course I couldn't resist buying myself a few things and they arrived today.
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posted: Wednesday, 28th November 2012
Ah the joys of being home and once again Dealing with Royal Mail.
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posted: Saturday, 24th November 2012
Today we head home and though I'm sad to leave I'm looking forward to getting home and being in my own bed.
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posted: Friday, 23rd November 2012
Our last day in New York and I head out to visit the Museum of Art and Design- one of my favourite places in Manhattan.
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posted: Thursday, 22nd November 2012
When I booked this trip to New York I was looking forward to seeing the Thanksgiving Parade but it wasn't until we got here and I looked up the route map that I realised we merely had to look out of the apartment window for a prime view- yay!
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posted: Wednesday, 21st November 2012
Today I get to do one of my favourite things with some of my favourite people- that is walk the High Line with Marcia and Mark DeCoster and Mr Jean Power.
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posted: Tuesday, 20th November 2012
I am very fortunate to have a lovely group of friends in New York and today was a beady get-together with them and it was great to see different people's interpretations of the designs from Geometric Beadwork and also Beadwork magazine.
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posted: Monday, 19th November 2012
For each of my last 3 trips to New York I had gone bead shopping with Suzanne Golden and Merle Berelowitz to a secret bead warehouse and this year I'm back there again- even though I don't think I've used all I've bought on my previous trips.
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posted: Sunday, 18th November 2012
Another day teaching and another day I forget my camera.
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posted: Saturday, 17th November 2012
Today begins with work as I'm teaching for the Bead Society of Greater New York and it's a day filled with pentagons.
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posted: Friday, 16th November 2012
Another day, another food tour. This time to Chelsea Market.
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posted: Thursday, 15th November 2012
Today we did so little that typing this up later I have no memory of the day at all- and no photographs to prove we didn't just sleep through it all.
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posted: Wednesday, 14th November 2012
Where we are staying in New York is a very busy shopping district and it's shocking to see just how much time people devote to shopping. As we leave our apartment there are continual hoardes of people psuhing past each over in a crazy kind of panic trying to get into clothes shops
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posted: Tuesday, 13th November 2012
Ok, slightly more energetic today with a great West Village food tour.
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posted: Monday, 12th November 2012
Would you be horrified if I told you that pretty much all I did today was sleep, have a manicure and pedicure (ah the bliss of sitting in a massage chair for 3 hours periodicially dozing and watching a film whilst being pampered), ate and drank?
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posted: Sunday, 11th November 2012
This is my 4th visit to New York and it has become a tradition to start the trip with eating at the Broadway Restaurant and this year is no different (ok, it was delayed a day).
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posted: Saturday, 10th November 2012
Worrying about all the books being picked up by Royal Mail kept me awake until 6am (11am Uk time) when I received a text letting me know they had all gone.
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posted: Friday, 9th November 2012
I woke up today to the news that my flight was delayed by 2 hours which proved to be a good thing as it gave me 2 extra hours to spend on the phone to Royal Mail asking them to turn up today, unlike yesterday.
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posted: Thursday, 8th November 2012
Update- after numerous emails and phonecalls (even with Royal Mail kindly giving me the wrong number to ring back on at one point) the new pickup is scheduled for this afternoon. I wonder if they'll redeeem themselves and turn up?...
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posted: Wednesday, 7th November 2012
I can't even begin to tell you just how many times I have rung or emailed the printers over the past few weeks. Doing this book has been so stressful and it all coming down to the wire like this is giving me heart palpitations.
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posted: Tuesday, 6th November 2012
I am still frantically working away labelling envelopes, filling out customs forms, sticking on airmail labels and a million and one other little jobs which don't sound much but when repeated hundreds of times are sending me into a whirl.
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posted: Sunday, 4th November 2012
Today was meant to be all work, work, work but before I knew it I was out having afternoon tea at The Wolseley celebrating a friend's birthday.
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posted: Saturday, 3rd November 2012
..but this box of addressed envelopes (and all the other boxes taking over my sitting room) are the result of me trying to get as much done in preparation for the book turning up this week.
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posted: Friday, 2nd November 2012
It is just non-stop at the moment (and let's not even think about the fact the passport office rejected my photos and I had to hurriedly get new ones sent to them....)
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posted: Thursday, 1st November 2012
..in all the stress of this week I somehow managed to skip over the exciting bit- Geometric Beadwork has gone to print!
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posted: Wednesday, 31st October 2012
My passport adventure still continues.
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posted: Tuesday, 30th October 2012
First up the good- I taught yesterday at The Bead Trail in Cheshire and had a great day. It was lovely to meet up with old friends, discover new ones and put faces to name for people I have emailed, chatted with on Face book and who even made samples for Geometric Beadwork.
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posted: Thursday, 25th October 2012
The book is on its last stage before heading to the printer. All that's happening now is one final check of all the photos and diagrams etc (this must be the most checked over book in the history of publishing!) then it will be uploaded and the presses will roll.
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posted: Wednesday, 24th October 2012
I have already posted out some of the book kits to those who couldn't wait for the book but I'm now busy packing up all the rest and relying on YouTube music to get me through.
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posted: Monday, 22nd October 2012
The ups are the book is 'this close' to going to print. This means that soon it will be here with me and then winging its way to everyone who ordered it.
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posted: Sunday, 21st October 2012
The book is just about done. It's all written etc, I'm just waiting for the page designer to finish with all the photos and then it can head to the printer.
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posted: Friday, 19th October 2012
Work on the book is moving ever forward and it's so close I can almost hold it in my hands.
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posted: Saturday, 13th October 2012
Everything is so manic here at the moment that I have neither physically nor mentally been able, or inclined, to attend two of my favourite events of the year: London Cocktail Week and the Knitting & Stitching Show.
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posted: Wednesday, 10th October 2012
I have so many classes planned for 2013 (and lots more still awaiting confirmation) that I'm pretty much done for the year. And I don't even want to think about what I have started to commit myself to in 2014...
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posted: Tuesday, 9th October 2012
My crochet bowl project from a few months ago crept closer to completion today when I finished the last stitches. Now I just need to weave in all those thread ends, find a bigger bowl to mould it around and get stiffening.
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posted: Monday, 8th October 2012
I headed back to Lancing this morning to teach the same class I did last week and had another lovely day.
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posted: Saturday, 6th October 2012
Phew- it's all go here as I sort and weight so, so, so many beads. I just realised today that's it's just over 2 years since I began selling kits and though I don't bring out too many of them, I do think long and hard about the ones that I do.
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posted: Thursday, 4th October 2012
Ever since I first saw a piece of her work back about ten years I ago I have adored the art of Suzanne Golden. Finally meeting her in 2009 only confirmed my view that she is an amazing lady and now she has a book coming out I am ready to explode with excitment!
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posted: Wednesday, 3rd October 2012
I have slept a good 85% of the time since returning from Lancing- bliss!
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