posted: Saturday, 31st December 2016
What a year!
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posted: Thursday, 29th December 2016
It's very cold and crisp out that we took the opportunity to wrap up warm and go for a walk & some geocaching, crunching leaves as we went.
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posted: Wednesday, 28th December 2016
I'm trying to avoid all work for a few days and of course am at a loss of what to do with myself. So I'm baking up a storm and doing a jigsaw whilst anything is in the oven. So far I've made cream eclairs (much, much tastier than they looked) and an Austrian Coffee Cake - delicious!
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posted: Sunday, 25th December 2016
Yippee ki-yay!
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posted: Saturday, 24th December 2016
For someone who doesn't bead or design ornaments... I've sure beaded and designed a lot of ornaments!
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posted: Friday, 23rd December 2016
I'm nearly done!
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posted: Thursday, 22nd December 2016
Day 22 of my Christmas 2016 Secret Beadalong is all done and it's starting to come together!
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posted: Tuesday, 20th December 2016
It's Day 20 of the Christmas 2016 Secret Beadalong and my fringing is all done.
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posted: Monday, 19th December 2016
Day 19 of the Christmas 2016 Secret Beadalong and I'm getting fringy- but with added sparkle of course.
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posted: Sunday, 18th December 2016
I can finally show off the results of days 1-16 of this years Christmas Secret Beadalong.
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posted: Friday, 16th December 2016
A trip out today to visit the newly reopened London Design Museum especially for their Makers Market.
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posted: Thursday, 15th December 2016
It's the last bead group of 2016 and I manage to get some beading done on one of my new versions of my Christmas 2016 Secret Beadalong all whilst enjoying some gingerbread made and cutely decorated by Shona Bevan.
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posted: Wednesday, 14th December 2016
We're working away on lots of things behind the scenes but took the evening off to head to Kew Gardens to see 'Kew at Christmas'.
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posted: Tuesday, 13th December 2016
I'm going through a lot of my beadwork at the moment, labelling & boxing items, and was pleased to have an excuse to rummage out these miniature French wire beaded flowers.
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posted: Sunday, 11th December 2016
The Christmas 2016 Secret Beadalong is still going well and we've reached Day 11 and all the components are beginning to come together to turn into something very sparkly...
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posted: Friday, 9th December 2016
They're here!
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posted: Thursday, 8th December 2016
The Christmas 2016 Secret Beadalong is still going strong and we've now hit Day 8 with some unusual components to be made and then joined together...
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posted: Monday, 5th December 2016
It's day 5 of the Christmas 2016 Secret Beadalong and it's all about turning bezelled chatons into geometric components...
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posted: Saturday, 3rd December 2016
A trip to Darlington and Not The Norm today for my first Crystal Pagoda Box class.
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posted: Friday, 2nd December 2016
It's Day 5 of Meet The Maker Week and today's theme is 'customers'.
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posted: Thursday, 1st December 2016
Not only is it Day 4 of Meet The Maker Week but it's the 1st Day of the Christmas 2016 Secret Beadalong!
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posted: Wednesday, 30th November 2016
It's Day 3 of #meetthemakerweek and the theme is... 'Your space'.
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posted: Tuesday, 29th November 2016
It's Day 2 of #meetthemakerweek and today's theme is... 'You' so here's some more information about me.
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posted: Monday, 28th November 2016
It's Day One of #meetthemakerweek on Instagram and I'll be reposting my posts from there to here but I do urge you all to check out the link so that you can see the thousands of wonderful posts from other makers.
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posted: Sunday, 27th November 2016
I'm all finished with these 2 versions of my CRAW Cradles and the sunset at today's end is simply stunning and I had to go for a walk to capture it in this unedited photograph.
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posted: Saturday, 26th November 2016
I absolutely adore these Czech 2mm glass pearls and am always trying to work out new projects so I can have an excuse to use them and buy some more... and my new CRAW Cradles projects used a few so I just had to restock!
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posted: Thursday, 24th November 2016
My new CRAW Cradle pendants are so sparkly that it's hard to take a photo!
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posted: Wednesday, 23rd November 2016
I'm having fun turning all the samples for this project into finished pieces.
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posted: Tuesday, 22nd November 2016
I visited a Saki masterclass tonight where I discovered... I don't like Saki. Or I do like some, but only when they don't smell of Saki, which means most Saki is not for me.
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posted: Monday, 21st November 2016
I'm working away on finishing up some other projects at the moment and am using more subtle colour schemes than I usually do (though they don't look so subtle here in real life they're soft lilacs & golds along with soft beiges & oranges).
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posted: Sunday, 20th November 2016
My collection of Star Flower Pendants is growing nicely.
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posted: Saturday, 19th November 2016
I've finished up 2 of my new pendants and am loving how different they look in different colour schemes.
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posted: Friday, 18th November 2016
Are you taking part in my Christmas 2016 Secret Beadalong?
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posted: Thursday, 17th November 2016
A fun evening with The Cocktail Lovers learning cognac cocktails using the delicious Hine Cognac - heaven!
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posted: Wednesday, 16th November 2016
The School of Life is a great organisation and Katie Price is an interesting person so when I found out about an event combining the two I had to buy tickets.
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posted: Monday, 14th November 2016
I'm beading like mad at the moment and these ropes, and many variations on them, are growing like crazy.
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posted: Sunday, 13th November 2016
Over a year since our last visit we headed back to the delightful Canons Park on this very cold, bright & crisp autumn day for a bracing walk and a visit to the walled garden.
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posted: Saturday, 12th November 2016
A lovely day at Charisma Beads today teaching my Iskra Box class.
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posted: Friday, 11th November 2016
I think I've ironed out all the design details of this new project and am really pleased with the rope I've designed for it.
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posted: Thursday, 10th November 2016
Another day full of beading and I've made another Star Flower (pattern coming in December or January) and turned 6 large oval crystals from a prototype into a finished pendant-type-thing...
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posted: Wednesday, 9th November 2016
I'm struggling with my cold but my hands are back on track and so I'm beading away like mad.
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posted: Monday, 7th November 2016
Recently The Bead Society of Great Britain asked me to teach at their AGM next yer and to design a piece which was influenced by the sea.
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posted: Sunday, 6th November 2016
I let my defences down and that cold has caught up with me so today I have no voice and am living on Lemsip whilst alternating tidying-up with napping.
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posted: Saturday, 5th November 2016
Summer is definitely over as my Rose wine has been replaced with mulled wine, it's freezing cold & dark here and a cold has been stalking me for a good week now though so far I've held it off.
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posted: Friday, 4th November 2016
Phew!
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posted: Tuesday, 1st November 2016
My new Christmas Star pattern is now available for sale. I had a lot of fun beading this and figuring out the design so I'm delighted with how it looks.
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posted: Monday, 31st October 2016
It only seems right that my new Christmas Star is photographed in its natural setting so out came the Christmas trees today to do just that.
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posted: Sunday, 30th October 2016
It might not look like much now but in one month this chaos on my beading mat will (fingers very tightly crossed) be a unique & exciting new beading direction for me... wish me luck!
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posted: Saturday, 29th October 2016
Christmas is approaching pretty quickly - yikes!
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posted: Thursday, 27th October 2016
The dress-making is continuing through it's mainly reinforcing my knowledge of how hopeless I am at it.
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posted: Wednesday, 26th October 2016
I've not disappeared completely, I'm busy working working away behind the scenes on projects I hope to be able to reveal soon.
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posted: Monday, 24th October 2016
I'm slowly coming back to beading and am pleased to get back to the skeleton bauble from Spellbound Bead Co that I was beading when I developed tendonitis.
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posted: Saturday, 22nd October 2016
A trip to see the lovely Worcestershire Beaders today to teach my Sticks & Stones class.
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posted: Wednesday, 19th October 2016
I'm still working on my new Christmas Star design and it's driving me crazy!
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posted: Tuesday, 18th October 2016
My tendonitis has brought a halt to my work at the moment but I'm slowly easing myself back to beading with a new project.
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posted: Wednesday, 12th October 2016
A trip out this evening to meet a friend and pop to Liberty and especially their wonderfully sparkly Christmas shop.
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posted: Tuesday, 11th October 2016
A trip to see Swarovski today and their new product launch.
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posted: Monday, 10th October 2016
Oops - all that working of my left-hand came back to haunt me this evening as I sat at bead group and was suddenly overwhelmed with pain in my left thumb & wrist and a complete loss of grip.
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posted: Sunday, 9th October 2016
I'm back at the Knitting and Stitching Show with one of my sisters, and this time for a full day, and boy do we need it!
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posted: Saturday, 8th October 2016
I couldn't resist taking a few hours today to begin stitching one of the kits I bought yesterday - this fabulous fox from Hawthorne Handmade.
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posted: Friday, 7th October 2016
I'm terrible at not working every hour available and this week has been yet another where I'm working until gone midnight and then back at it again by 7 or 8am.
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posted: Tuesday, 4th October 2016
My Iskra Box variation continues and this one is going to take a dramatic turn very soon.
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posted: Monday, 3rd October 2016
Phew- it's been a busy few months but a lot of it has come to fruition today with the launch of a new pattern and 2 new kits.
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posted: Sunday, 2nd October 2016
My arm wound is no longer infected, my nausea inducing antibiotics are finished, my stitches are out and all looked good.
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posted: Saturday, 1st October 2016
After teaching my Sparkle Stars at BeadFX recently I've been inspired to get my beads out and return to the project coming up with 3 new variations. Now I just need the time to write them up!
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