posted: Wednesday, 28th September 2016
I'm blaming the jet lag, infection and nausea, but whatever the cause, I decided to spend my day sticking Swarovski crystals to a plastic crow.
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posted: Tuesday, 27th September 2016
My teaching at BeadFx finished Sunday and I had to leave right away to get on a plane home. I'm sad to be leaving but always happy to go home.
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posted: Sunday, 25th September 2016
When I first began beading I never imagined that it would not only take me all around the World, but that I would get a constant education from everyone I met through it.
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posted: Saturday, 24th September 2016
My 2nd day teaching at BeadFX and once again I'm inspired by everyone's colour combinations.
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posted: Friday, 23rd September 2016
Last time I visited BeadFX I was inspired to use more white in my work and today is just the same.
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posted: Thursday, 22nd September 2016
I'm flying off to Canada today and so my mind is on the flight and getting to see all my Canadian friends.
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posted: Wednesday, 21st September 2016
Today I'm busy finishing packing kits to take to BeadFX with me and it's mainly these gorgeous 14m Swarovski #2035 I'm working with.
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posted: Tuesday, 20th September 2016
Today's launch is a new necklace which I've been working on for at least a year, ever since I discovered these beautiful large Swarovski pearls which seemed perfect for bezelling around.
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posted: Monday, 19th September 2016
Following the news 2 days ago and yesterday's blog post today's newest class to be unveiled is Zaila.
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posted: Sunday, 18th September 2016
Following-on from yesterday's news today's new project unveiling is Tetra Star.
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posted: Saturday, 17th September 2016
Finally after months of waiting I can officially reveal some exciting news about next year - I'll be teaching the masterclasses at The Beadworkers Guild's Great British Bead Show.
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posted: Friday, 16th September 2016
I'm taking a break from beading for a few hours... to photograph my beadwork instead.
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posted: Thursday, 15th September 2016
I'm busy beading new variations on projects and am surrounded by so much sparkle!
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posted: Wednesday, 14th September 2016
Ever since I taught my geometric class at Creative Castle back in April, and met the very talented Franklin Martin, I've been inspired to return to a series of projects (all beaded vessels) I had begun a few years ago but put away for various reasons.
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posted: Tuesday, 13th September 2016
My 2 new variations on a soon-to-be-launched pattern are pendants made from bezelled crystals.
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posted: Monday, 12th September 2016
I'm back from a couple of days in France where I managed to buy some beautiful & ridiculous things in a market, see some wonderful needle-felted faux taxidermy, see a calf just after it was born, get given a saucy drink stirrer, trespass, buy odd booze and laugh a lot.
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posted: Friday, 9th September 2016
I'm still getting ready for my meet & greet at BeadFX and today's kit packing involves thousands & thousands of Swarovski pearls.
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posted: Wednesday, 7th September 2016
In just a couple of weeks I'm going to be back at the wonderful BeadFX and on Friday 23rd September I'll be having a meet & greet at the store where I'll also be launching 2 brand new kits!
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posted: Tuesday, 6th September 2016
Today was all about beaders with a visit to a local beading group and then a talented beader.
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posted: Monday, 5th September 2016
Today I'm bagging up hundreds & hundreds of chatons for my Christmas 2016 Secret Beadalong kit.
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posted: Sunday, 4th September 2016
A quick snapshot of today's beading with some gorgeous Swarovski pearls, and a sneak peek at a new beading kit which will launch in a couple of weeks at BeadFX and contains 500+ pearls!
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posted: Saturday, 3rd September 2016
I headed off to Charisma Beads today to teach my Rick-Rack class.
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posted: Friday, 2nd September 2016
Work has begun on packing up the kits for my Christmas 2016 Secret Beadalong and there are so many sparkles!
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posted: Thursday, 1st September 2016
There I was enjoying Summer and our London heatwave when bam - my mind had to switch to Christmas and get finalising the project for my Christmas 2016 Secret Beadalong.
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posted: Wednesday, 31st August 2016
Phew - tubing all these 100s & 100s of tubes of beads has taken a while but they're all done and My Favourite Delicas 10 are out in the post to their purchasers.
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posted: Tuesday, 30th August 2016
Back at bead group tonight and I'm working on a new variation of my soon-to-be-launched pattern 'Moroccan Tiles'.
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posted: Sunday, 28th August 2016
This chaos & scribbles are me finishing up my Christmas 2016 Secret Beadalong project all ready to launch the beading kit and pattern next week.
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posted: Friday, 26th August 2016
A day out today doing a class at the Royal School of Needlework at Hampton Court.
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posted: Thursday, 25th August 2016
My latest Elica Necklace is beaded and photographed and joins the other two I have made.
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posted: Tuesday, 23rd August 2016
Another day tubing beads for My Favourite Delicas 10 followed by a walk in the wonderful sunshine that abounds in London at the moment.
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posted: Monday, 22nd August 2016
Another visit to the beautiful Kew Gardens today.
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posted: Sunday, 21st August 2016
It's always fun coming up with colour schemes and I'm loving this latest one.
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posted: Thursday, 18th August 2016
I'm busy at the moment tubing up the beads for My Favourite Delica 10.
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posted: Tuesday, 16th August 2016
You can never have too much useful storage or penguin jewellery!
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posted: Monday, 15th August 2016
We're having an incredible heatwave in London at the moment and so I've decided... to knit a scarf.
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posted: Sunday, 14th August 2016
The perils of experimenting - I much prefer the finer beaded rope in my new Elica Necklace.
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posted: Saturday, 13th August 2016
I've been experimenting with a few different ropes for my Elica Necklace but think I've finally settled on a netted one full of crystals to match the pendant.
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posted: Friday, 12th August 2016
It's still wonderfully hot & sunny in London and it seems everywhere I look today is filled with colour.
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posted: Thursday, 11th August 2016
I'm still beading like crazy turning my sketches from last week into projects whilst also fitting in a trip to Thorpe Park (where I spent most of the day being terrified out of my skin) and then getting my hair re-dyed and cut.
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posted: Tuesday, 9th August 2016
I'm still beading hard and turning my sketches from last week into finished projects based on experimenting with a single motif/ thread path.
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posted: Monday, 8th August 2016
A quick snapshot of another project my sketches from last week have turned into.
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posted: Sunday, 7th August 2016
My blue & yellow colour scheme from yesterday has turned into a new Elica pendant.
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posted: Saturday, 6th August 2016
I'm making a variation on my Elica Necklace and this one has a blue & Sunflower yellow colour scheme.
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posted: Thursday, 4th August 2016
It's Day 6 of National Beading Week and once again I have another busy beading day with a return visit to the UFO beading event Penny Akester organised in London.
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posted: Wednesday, 3rd August 2016
It's Day 5 of National Beading Week and once again I have another busy beading day.
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posted: Tuesday, 2nd August 2016
It's Day 4 of National Beading Week and I'm beadily busy today.
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posted: Monday, 1st August 2016
It's Day 3 of National Beading Week and for everyone taking part in my Summer 2016 Secret Beadalong the stash of beaded beads is growing...
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posted: Sunday, 31st July 2016
It's Day 2 of National Beading Week and everyone taking part in my Summer 2016 Secret Beadalong has a little stash of growing beaded beads...
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posted: Saturday, 30th July 2016
Yay- it's National Beading Week and I can finally share photos of what I've been up to in secret for months!
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posted: Friday, 29th July 2016
Replace 'picture' with 'project' and 'painter' with 'beader' and this great quote from Pablo Picasso sums up how I feel about my work.
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posted: Thursday, 28th July 2016
This evening, spurred on by a temporary reprieve from my physical ails, I got to beading and made 2 samples for new projects.
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posted: Tuesday, 26th July 2016
Annoyingly my few days of tubing beads last week, and bad posture whilst doing it, has messed up my back & neck and once again trapped my Vagus Nerve.
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posted: Sunday, 24th July 2016
I've written a few times of my love for the Persiana cookbook by Sabrina Ghayour and today I had another excuse to use it when I invited friends round for a Persian lunch.
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posted: Saturday, 23rd July 2016
It's my birthday today and I'm celebrating in style.
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posted: Friday, 22nd July 2016
It was worth all the maths, backwards beading & perseverance!
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posted: Thursday, 21st July 2016
Another day, another quote from Pablo Picasso:
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posted: Wednesday, 20th July 2016
It is always good news when new bead colours are introduced and this new set is no exception!
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posted: Tuesday, 19th July 2016
We're still having the wonderful heatwave here in London and I'm too hot & bothered to dive into any beading design work or a large scale needlepoint piece so instead I'm going to start this geometric hand-painted canvas (#M1764 from Gee Works).
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posted: Monday, 18th July 2016
After 3+ years I'm adding the last stitches to my Peacock needlepoint kit from Emily Peacock.
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posted: Saturday, 16th July 2016
And just like that the holiday is over and I'm back to work. But, seeing as my work today led me to spend the day with some lovely beaders in Bristol working on Liekulis, I can't complain.
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posted: Thursday, 14th July 2016
Oops - far too little sun-cream yesterday meant I woke up this morning with an odd burn on my leg. Hilariously we soon figured out it was a handprint from the way I sat at one point!
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posted: Wednesday, 13th July 2016
The sun is here!
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posted: Tuesday, 12th July 2016
A busy day of wandering the cliffs, finding geocaches, enjoying the sun and swimming in the sea - heaven.
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posted: Monday, 11th July 2016
A trip to St Ives today where we got to visit the wonderful Porthmeor Cafe and dine on delicious food (including a carrot ganache which blew our minds!).
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posted: Sunday, 10th July 2016
I don't think I could ever get tired of this view.
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posted: Saturday, 9th July 2016
Our last trip to Cornwall in May last year ended abruptly and I've been waiting, not so patiently, ever since to come back and today we got to do so.
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posted: Friday, 8th July 2016
I headed down to Stitchncraft Beads today to teach my Tretze Class and much fun was had!
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posted: Wednesday, 6th July 2016
Even though the 'official' dates for my Summer 2016 Secret Beadalong aren't for a few weeks some people have already dived in (the full instructions are now available) and today I got to see my first photo of a fully finished piece.
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posted: Tuesday, 5th July 2016
I'm always on the look-out for interesting & inspiring colour schemes and design ideas.
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posted: Sunday, 3rd July 2016
The weather in London is lovely again and today we headed off to Kew Gardens to enjoy the sunshine and relax surrounded by nature.
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posted: Saturday, 2nd July 2016
A day out with family today and a visit to the wonderful Honey & Co where we feasted on fresh, delicious food and drink.
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