posted: Thursday, 30th June 2016
I'm taking a few days out of life & away from the Internet to nourish my brain, body & psyche and I'm having fun doing some of my needlepoint.
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posted: Tuesday, 28th June 2016
I'm doing some beading experimenting today and am delighted to finally have a good excuse to use these gorgeous polka dot dagger beads.
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posted: Sunday, 26th June 2016
The best part of needlepoint is closing spaces & seeing colours meet each other and turn from individual stitches into something that's greater than the sum of its parts.
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posted: Saturday, 25th June 2016
A lovely day out today with the Medway Beaders doing my CRAW Ropes Class.
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posted: Monday, 20th June 2016
I had a lovely trip out today to see the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition with family & friends.
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posted: Saturday, 18th June 2016
I've been doing a lot of beading at the moment and it's been taking its toll on my hands.
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posted: Friday, 17th June 2016
London is full of wonderful street art and I love wandering the streets and discovering it as I go.
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posted: Thursday, 16th June 2016
A lovely trip to Norfolk today to teach my CRAW Ropes class at MOTH Crafts.
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posted: Wednesday, 15th June 2016
A friend from roller derby is getting married soon and asked me if I could make her a tiara. But I offered her one better, a lesson in tiara making so she could make her own and wear it with pride!
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posted: Tuesday, 14th June 2016
A lot of my work goes on behind the scenes and today I'm getting ready for 2 CRAW Ropes classes I have coming up soon.
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posted: Monday, 13th June 2016
It might not seem like much at the moment but I'm redoing the preparation beading for my Summer 2016 Secret Beadalong so I'll have another set ready so I can join in on the week.
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posted: Sunday, 12th June 2016
We're still in France and have cleverly timed it to be there to help with and enjoy a feast.
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posted: Saturday, 11th June 2016
I headed over to France yesterday with Mr Jean Power and some friends for my mum's birthday and after a ridiculously long journey in the heat with delays we arrived in the French countryside and immediately began to relax.
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posted: Thursday, 9th June 2016
Excitingly the preparation instructions for this summer's Secret beadalong have now been sent out along with some exciting news about bead packs which will soon be available through Stitchncraft Beads!
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posted: Wednesday, 8th June 2016
I'm working on some photography today taking photos of 3 new projects that I'll be making public in a few months. Until then you'll have to just enjoy this sneak peek...
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posted: Monday, 6th June 2016
I'm working on a new variation of my Zaila Chain and am the colour scheme I've chosen for it.
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posted: Sunday, 5th June 2016
So after years of experiments, samples, frustration, giving up and trying again, I'm finally happy with the method of beading these 3-dimensional geometric pieces.
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posted: Saturday, 4th June 2016
I'm working on a geometric beading project at the moment and in an attempt to better see the structure, and how my experiments are working, I've switched to using large plastic Hama beads.
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posted: Friday, 3rd June 2016
My first batch of Caroline Necklace kits are already in the post and today's job is counting, bagging & boxing up over 15,000 crystals ready for the last remaining kits that are available and a new kit I'm going to launch in a few months.
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posted: Thursday, 2nd June 2016
I'm working on so many beading projects at the moment that I have to keep secret for various reasons but as a tempter here is a sneak peek at the crystals on one of them.
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posted: Wednesday, 1st June 2016
I'm very excited today to launch my new Caroline Necklace kits and pattern and finally get to show all the different variations I have made in the series.
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posted: Tuesday, 31st May 2016
I'm still working hard behind the scenes on the Summer 2016 Secret Beadalong and wonderfully, when I include groups and shops etc, over 500 people are now going to take part.
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posted: Monday, 30th May 2016
I've started a new project today using some large triangle crystals and they're just too much sparkle for my poor camera phone to handle.
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posted: Sunday, 29th May 2016
It's been such a colourful week.
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posted: Wednesday, 25th May 2016
A busy day today filled with photographing my Caroline series of work (now available as a kit and a pattern).
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posted: Tuesday, 24th May 2016
Yay for colourful post!
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posted: Monday, 23rd May 2016
I'm loving my latest project but sadly have to keep it under wraps for a few months. But in the meantime here's a sneak peek at it.
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posted: Saturday, 21st May 2016
I've been working on lots of beading projects behind the scenes recently (some for months and some for years!) and I'm excited that soon I'll be able to reveal some of them - and some special classes they're for.
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posted: Wednesday, 18th May 2016
I'm loving the colour combination I'm using in my latest necklace.
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posted: Tuesday, 17th May 2016
I'm busy finalising my latest project, choosing crystals for a new variation and testing out a new beading thread.
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posted: Monday, 16th May 2016
Another day out in London and this time to meet the lovely and talented Sharmini Wirasekara at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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posted: Sunday, 15th May 2016
What a few days!
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posted: Thursday, 12th May 2016
Yesterday I headed down to lovely Taunton to for a class today teaching my Sticks & Stones projects.
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posted: Wednesday, 11th May 2016
My latest necklace once again uses rivolis, this time for interchangeable components, and again I dove into my Rivolis Collection to try and choose the best colours to combine with the large central crystal.
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posted: Tuesday, 10th May 2016
I've finished my Carole necklace and am working on the 3rd variation of this project which will be a pattern and a kit released at the start of June so be sure to sign up to my newsletter to find out when and get the discount code.
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posted: Monday, 9th May 2016
I'm working on my new variation of my Caroline necklace and have really enjoyed diving into my Rivoli Collection to choose colours.
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posted: Sunday, 8th May 2016
It is still wonderfully sunny in London and today the temperature reached 31C/ 88F which is crazily different than the usual temperature of 12C/ 54F.
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posted: Saturday, 7th May 2016
I've started a new variation on my Caroline necklace and excitingly get to dive into my Rivolis Collection to choose crystals.
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posted: Friday, 6th May 2016
I've finished my latest necklace which has been a work in progress both mentally and physically for at least 6 years.
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posted: Thursday, 5th May 2016
I headed off to the Fashion and Textile Museum today to see their Missoni exhibition.
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posted: Wednesday, 4th May 2016
Whilst travelling I bought some great needlepoint canvases and I'm itching to get to stitching them, but have resolved to be good and first finish the Emily Peacock one I'm working on at the moment.
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posted: Tuesday, 3rd May 2016
I'm excited today to launch my Summer 2016 Secret Beadalong!
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posted: Sunday, 1st May 2016
The weather in London is wonderful at the moment and I'm making the most of it sitting outside as much as possible, usually reading cocktail books & magazines, just in case it disappears again.
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posted: Tuesday, 26th April 2016
I'm finally now back home having landed from California at 10am last Thursday and then heading out at 11am the next morning for a long weekend away with friends in preparation for a wedding in May.
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posted: Tuesday, 19th April 2016
A day off in California before I head home to London and Carole Tripp from Creative Castle kindly takes me to both a needlepoint and a quilting store - a double-whammy of colour, inspiration and danger to my purse.
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posted: Monday, 18th April 2016
Sadly today is my last day teaching at Creative Castle for this trip but there was no better way of spending it than exploring my new Tretze necklace class and getting to see all the variations appear.
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posted: Sunday, 17th April 2016
It's the 2nd day of my 2-day geometric beadwork class at Creative Castle and there's a frenzy of work being created all around!
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posted: Saturday, 16th April 2016
It's my 4th day teaching at Creative Castle and today is the 1st day of a 2-day geometric beadwork class where I plan to cover everything I know about geometric beadwork - I'm not sure I'll fit it into just 2 days!
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posted: Friday, 15th April 2016
Another lovely day at Creative Castle and today's class is Sticks & Stones.
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posted: Thursday, 14th April 2016
It's my 2nd day teaching at Creative Castle and the class is Armarria.
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posted: Wednesday, 13th April 2016
Today is my 1st day teaching at the wonderful Creative Castle and the class is my Beaded Arrow Heads.
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posted: Tuesday, 12th April 2016
I've flown onto California (aarrghh more flying!) and as I don't start teaching until tomorrow I had a few hours to do some more work on the finished pieces for my Summer 2016 Secret Beadalong.
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posted: Monday, 11th April 2016
Today was sadly my last day in Chicago for 2016 but we spent it in style.
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posted: Sunday, 10th April 2016
Sadly my last day teaching at City Beads was today but it was such a great day.
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posted: Saturday, 9th April 2016
Today is my 4th day at City Beads and the class is Marun.
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posted: Friday, 8th April 2016
Today was my 3rd day teaching at City Beads and the class was my Tretze series.
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posted: Thursday, 7th April 2016
It's my 2nd day teaching at City Beads and I can't even begin to tell you how excited I was when Onye Ndika walked in!
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posted: Wednesday, 6th April 2016
It's my first day teaching for City Beads and I had so much fun I only took one photo- this silly one to remind myself of the beads I was using - oops.
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posted: Tuesday, 5th April 2016
My time at home (a whole 90 hours of it) flew by and here I am back in the USA but this time in Chicago.
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