posted: Thursday, 31st December 2015
Phew- what a year!
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posted: Monday, 28th December 2015
Christmas is over, everyone has gone home and the time has just flown by.
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posted: Thursday, 24th December 2015
After a crazy start to the day it was full steam ahead until I went to bed tonight.
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posted: Wednesday, 23rd December 2015
It's all systems go here at the Power household!
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posted: Tuesday, 22nd December 2015
It's day 22 of the Secret Christmas Beadalong and it's time to add the big crystals!
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posted: Sunday, 20th December 2015
It seems like only days since I put up my 2015 planner but looking back at my blog shows me that it was actually 14 months ago -yikes this year has flown.
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posted: Saturday, 19th December 2015
I finally got a chance to visit my London bead group today after not having a chance for a year or so.
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posted: Friday, 18th December 2015
I took a few hours off today to meet-up with a friend who has been working abroad for 18 months and the perfect way to catch-up was with a visit to a food market and some cocktails before wandering the West End looking at Christmas window displays and wares for sale and I even treated myself to a...
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posted: Thursday, 17th December 2015
I'm back from a few more days away working at Clouds & Currents and after catching-up with all my work I get to spend some time beading and finally catching-up with my own beadalong - and even get a day ahead!
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posted: Sunday, 13th December 2015
One of my sisters and nieces came over today to help me decorate the house and myself in time for Christmas. I was reinstated to my natural dark blue hair colour and the house became adorned to match.
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posted: Saturday, 12th December 2015
An advance copy of the book that I've been busy working on behind the scenes this year popped through my letterbox this morning. It was such a treat to flick through the pages and get to see all the hard work that I and others had put in come to fruition.
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posted: Friday, 11th December 2015
I'm back in London and trying to undo the damage that so many days of packing have done to my neck and shoulder but after 3 massages in 24 hours I finally seem to have gotten rid of my migraine and halo of pain.
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posted: Wednesday, 9th December 2015
I'm out of London, down in Essex, for a few days to help out at Clouds & Currents, the fab business owned by one of my sisters and her husband.
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posted: Saturday, 5th December 2015
My Secret Christmas Beadalong 2015 has begun and I'm trying to bead along with it as best I can. Fortunately I have beaded lots of components to test the instructions and take photos so I'm both behind and ahead at the same time.
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posted: Friday, 4th December 2015
The best thing about packing up all 7,200 rivolis for my Rivolis Collection is discovering new colours and getting to discover new favourites.
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posted: Thursday, 3rd December 2015
My neck and shoulder issues are stopping me from beading at the moment but I hate sitting and not doing anything with my hands so I've picked up my never-ending-and-I-really-hate-it-now crochet blanket.
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posted: Monday, 30th November 2015
The joy of beading all my pieces for my CRAW Ropes Class is getting to play with beads sizes, shapes and colours to get different looks.
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posted: Saturday, 28th November 2015
Almost as soon as I decided the other day that I simply had too many beads I went and ordered many. many more.
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posted: Thursday, 26th November 2015
Today was a hectic day of emails, packing beads and dealing with life so when it got to 4pm and I hadn't stopped to eat or drink all day the wonderful Mr Jean Power stepped in with the perfect cure: food and drink prepared by someone else.
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posted: Wednesday, 25th November 2015
I get asked a lot about my bead storage and as today I'm busy tidying up the disaster zone that my bead room has become recently it's the perfect opportunity to snap some photos.
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posted: Tuesday, 24th November 2015
I'm a big fan of Swarovski Rivolis (you only need to check out my gallery pages, patterns or recent books to see that
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posted: Sunday, 22nd November 2015
I'm busy packing up my new Caldera Kits and as they contain 75 different highlight colours I'm having a lot of fun choosing the colours for each one - and falling in love with each different one I pack.
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posted: Saturday, 21st November 2015
A visit to Essex today to teach my Sticks & Stones class and as always it was great to see the progression as everyone learnt CRAW and then moved onto making components for their finished pieces.
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posted: Thursday, 19th November 2015
I'm still busy turning all my CRAW rope samples into finished items for my CRAW Ropes Class and this one is another version of my my Lace Overlay design with a diamond pattern (like I posted the other day) but this time with different beads for a very different look.
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posted: Sunday, 15th November 2015
More geocaching in France today and an excuse to get up close and personal with one of my favourite buildings.
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posted: Saturday, 14th November 2015
Yesterday we travelled to France to escape for a bit, catch-up on some sleep and feel some peace, only to have the news of the night's awful events keep me awake all night as the horror unfolded and my heart broke at the reintroduction of fear to Europe.
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posted: Friday, 13th November 2015
After many requests I've finally put together a new Caldera Bangles kit.
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posted: Thursday, 12th November 2015
I'm still busy turning all my little samples of CRAW rope variations into finished pieces for my CRAW ropes class) and having fun playing with the beads and colours.
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posted: Tuesday, 10th November 2015
A trip out this evening to a Cognac event (involving Hine Cognac) hosted by the ever lovely Shaken Cocktails and it was a good excuse to wear a cocktail-inspired bead embroidery bangle that I created a few months back.
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posted: Monday, 9th November 2015
As a belated birthday present one of my sisters is taking me out for the day... but won't say where.
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posted: Sunday, 8th November 2015
Yesterday I taught my Marun bracelet class in London and had such a busy and fun day I completely forgot to take any photos of all the hard work everyone did- oops.
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posted: Thursday, 5th November 2015
The internet, and especially Facebook, has a way of shortening distances and bringing people together and it's a great way to 'meet' other beaders and see amazing work from around the World.
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posted: Wednesday, 4th November 2015
I headed off to a cooking class today on making Christmas desserts and of course before I headed out I checked if there were any geocaches nearby...
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posted: Tuesday, 3rd November 2015
At Boxes & Busts yesterday I stocked up on some SuperDuos as I didn't think I owned many and wanted to do a project using a few colours... hmm guess I'd forgotten how many I'd accumulated... and just how much I love those greens/ blues.
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posted: Monday, 2nd November 2015
Today I headed off to Wales to teach my Geometric Stars at Boxes & Busts near Cardiff.
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posted: Saturday, 31st October 2015
The party I'd be planning for months finally happened and much fun was had by all - evidenced by us not getting to bed until 6am...
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posted: Friday, 30th October 2015
we're back home and I'm busy preparing for a Halloween party we're having tomorrow.
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posted: Tuesday, 27th October 2015
I'm out of London for a few days on a family break and wouldn't you know it... we're geocaching!
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posted: Sunday, 25th October 2015
One of my sisters, and her husband and gorgeous dog, stayed last night and today the conversation turned to the book Microadventures by Alistair Humphreys and then someone mentioned geocaching.
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posted: Saturday, 24th October 2015
When one of my sisters suggested walking over the roof of The 02 (AKA the Millennium Dome) for her birthday I said yes immediately - and then suggested we get there using the London cable car.
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posted: Friday, 23rd October 2015
Today I headed to the Saatchi Gallery to see the exhibition Mademoiselle Privé.
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posted: Tuesday, 20th October 2015
I wrote recently about the work produced by Oscar Francis. Once I'd discovered their work based on where I grew up I bought some more and last night we finally managed to hang them (hopefully straight).
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posted: Monday, 19th October 2015
I managed some beading today and had fun playing with colour and bead sizes/ shapes in a Spiralled CRAW for my CRAW Ropes classes next year.
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posted: Sunday, 18th October 2015
Still no beading for me and the thought of just sitting and watching TV gets me flailing my unused hands around in boredom, so instead I turn to something else to fill my time: colouring-in.
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posted: Saturday, 17th October 2015
A trip to Charisma Beads today to teach my Peacock Petals class.
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posted: Wednesday, 14th October 2015
A trip out today with Michelle Douglas from Not The Norm to visit with Swarovski and see their new range of delights.
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posted: Tuesday, 13th October 2015
If you were unlucky enough to miss out on last year's Christmas ornament bead-along then I have good news - the pattern is now available to purchase! After purchasing you'll be sent out all the necessary instructions, minus one important thing... a picture
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posted: Monday, 12th October 2015
Since I got back from New York 7 days ago I've been busy sleeping and today is my first day out of the house and it's for a good cause - a pre-booked visit to Sipsmith for a tour of their distillery and to taste some of their fine produce.
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posted: Saturday, 10th October 2015
Jet-lag, exhaustion and the flu have kept me bed-ridden since I returned from New York but today I was determined to get up and about and do something important... beading.
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posted: Monday, 5th October 2015
It's my last full day in New York and I spend it... bead shopping!
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posted: Sunday, 4th October 2015
The LOOT show is over and I get to have a lie-in which does me the world of good.
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posted: Saturday, 3rd October 2015
The last day of the LOOT show and of course I woke up with full on flu...
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posted: Friday, 2nd October 2015
A long busy day at LOOT and the best way to end it is having cocktails in a large group and laughing about the day.
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posted: Thursday, 1st October 2015
We're 4 days into LOOT and we're all slowly coming down with flu...
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