posted: Monday, 30th September 2013
One of my favourite pieces of all I have ever beaded is my Heroine Necklace. I have such find memories of Gabriella van Diepen modelling it and bringing it to life as she did so.
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posted: Friday, 27th September 2013
In the blink of an eye my life took a quick swerve in a new direction on Monday 16th when an estate agent we invited around to discuss what we needed to do to sell our house announced "nothing" and before we knew it within 3 days our house was sold and we're now looking for a new one.
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posted: Tuesday, 17th September 2013
Another day out with Stacy Creamer before she heads home to New York and today we decide to escape London and head to Brighton to check out some jewellery shops there.
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posted: Saturday, 14th September 2013
My mind is so full of stitching ideas and beadwork I need to do but I couldn't resist getting back to my Emily Peacock peacock kit.
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posted: Friday, 13th September 2013
A friend, Stacy Creamer, is over from New York so it seemed only reasonable I introduce her to some of the shopping delights London has to offer.
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posted: Thursday, 12th September 2013
My new loop scarf is almost done but now I've reached a scary part.
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posted: Monday, 9th September 2013
...by that I mean someone else did all the work!
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posted: Friday, 6th September 2013
I've been keeping some of my new work with Tilas under wraps but am now revealing 2 of the projects just in time to announce that they're a class in Florida at Beads Gone Wild in just 8 weeks. I'll be teaching 3 different classes on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd November so hope to see you there.
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posted: Thursday, 5th September 2013
About 4 years ago I made a very basic bicone crystal and headpin pendant for a magazine and ever since then I've wanted to replicate it in seed beads and finally I've managed it.
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posted: Tuesday, 3rd September 2013
I've got about 8 beading projects sitting on beading mats waiting for me to finish at the moment- all of them needed ASAP of course.
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posted: Monday, 2nd September 2013
After getting up at 4am for my flight yesterday I fell asleep as soon as I got home and when I woke I was so cold and tired it seemed sensible to ignore all the very urgent beading I have to do and instead focus on starting yet another new scarf project.
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posted: Sunday, 1st September 2013
An early start today as I was catching the 6.40am flight home to London and accompanying me is the yarn for the second new project I bought at Glen Gallery Crafts.
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posted: Saturday, 31st August 2013
My second day teaching at Glen Gallery Crafts and today is all about triangles.
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posted: Friday, 30th August 2013
Last year I fell in love with Glen Gallery Crafts when I visited them and so have been looking forward to returning ever since
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posted: Monday, 26th August 2013
It's a sunny day and a national holiday so we headed out to Bekonscot Model Village to enjoy the sunshine and take photos of ourselves looking like giants.
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posted: Friday, 23rd August 2013
I'm still working on geometric projects using tila beads but my pallette has switched to my favourite Delica colour- 331 and brown/ bronze tilas. I'm enjoying using the beads a lot and the new twist they've put on some 'old favourites' of mine.
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posted: Thursday, 22nd August 2013
So many new shapes of beads have entered the market in the past couple of years and so far I've mainly steered away from them. The main reason for this is I have a life-times worth of projects in my mind for just Delicas and seed beads so other beads don't always get much of a look in!
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posted: Tuesday, 20th August 2013
Today we popped back to The Abbey De Valloires where I once again had the cheese plate and it was different than its previous incarnations and delicious.
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posted: Sunday, 18th August 2013
More shopping in France and today we visited a market where though I desperately wanted to buy the two tiny Yorkshire Terrier puppies I saw for sale, I ended up with a cross-eyed monkey lemon reamer (now known as Monkey Alan) and a bird bottle opener (now called Benedict Birderbatch) who is...
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posted: Saturday, 17th August 2013
Oh the joy to wake up in another country and have a weekend off with friends and family and good weather.
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posted: Friday, 16th August 2013
I'm still in Torquay, still loving all the colour schemes I'm seeing and still not clever enough to remember to take photos during the class apart from one.
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posted: Thursday, 15th August 2013
I'm back down to very sunny Torquay to spend 2 days with the lovely beaders who come to classes at Beads For Beauty. This is such a lovely place to visit, both as a teacher and a student
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posted: Wednesday, 14th August 2013
Ever since I first discovered websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo I've been addicted to searching out interesting projects and backing them.
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posted: Tuesday, 13th August 2013
Back to Geometrics!
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posted: Monday, 12th August 2013
It may seem like I don't do much beading but there has been a lot going on behind the scenes that I can now show you.
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posted: Sunday, 11th August 2013
I've written before about my love for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and although I really need to spend a day resting the fact that today is my only chance to see it this year gets me out of bed and off to Piccadilly.
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posted: Saturday, 10th August 2013
I'm back home again and today is a a day for me to catch up with family and learn how to decorate cupcakes.
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posted: Friday, 9th August 2013
Sadly today is our last day of class though I think we would all love another month or so to really get time to play around with all those ideas we've had.
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posted: Thursday, 8th August 2013
4 days into the class and everyone is working away, including late at night, beading and playing with colour plus chatting and laughing. I love teaching long classes like this where conversation and ideas flow.
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posted: Wednesday, 7th August 2013
The third day of class and we're moving onto creating our own purses adorned with bead embroidery.
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posted: Tuesday, 6th August 2013
Today began with everyone finishing their sampler (I guess finishing is the wrong word as these can be an ongoing poject) and then beginning their bead embroidery bird measuring tape cover, or, as I like to call him (or her, there was much discussion over the week as to which he was) Furtive Fowl...
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posted: Monday, 5th August 2013
The 5-day bead embroidery class I'm teaching began today with everyone making their own sampler of stitches. This is a great way to learn the basics, warm up to the subject and begin playing with colour, beads, texture etc ready for the rest of the week
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posted: Tuesday, 30th July 2013
Next week I'm teaching a 5-day bead embroidery summer school and I can't wait!
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posted: Monday, 29th July 2013
It's hard to believe that it's only 6 months since 'Small beads, Big Jewelry' got the go ahead as it has taken over my life ever since.
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posted: Tuesday, 23rd July 2013
Last Monday we has a weird outing to see This Show Has No Name. Those of us who went were excited as we'd been to a few of their events before-Their annual Office Party Christmas events were outstanding and I wish they would run one again.
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posted: Sunday, 21st July 2013
My bracelet, which I began over a year ago, is now finished and I'm wearing it proudly.
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posted: Friday, 19th July 2013
My latest project- All Angles Necklace- is now available to purchase.
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posted: Thursday, 18th July 2013
I am absolutely devastated to have to say that a good friend of mine, and a very talented beader, Merle Berelowitz, has passed away.
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posted: Wednesday, 17th July 2013
I'm straight onto some new projects, this time using seed beads and some gorgeous dark lapis Swarovski pearls.
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posted: Tuesday, 16th July 2013
The weather is still very hot here- I do love it even though it is wearing me out- but it's so nice to have it for such a long period.
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posted: Sunday, 14th July 2013
Today I was back at Charisma Beads and this time teaching Geometric 1-9-1.
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posted: Saturday, 13th July 2013
Today I'm in Hitchin to teach at Charisma Beads. The shop has moved to a new location and it gave me a chance to see a bit more of the town. Unfortunately I forgot my camera so couldn't take any photos of the new premises or what everyone made.
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posted: Thursday, 11th July 2013
I began this bracelet at least a year ago and it has sat waiting for me to return to it.
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posted: Tuesday, 9th July 2013
Whilst in France I did manage to fit in some beading and finished this necklace I began a long time ago but had sadly neglected.
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posted: Monday, 8th July 2013
I've written before about my love of The Abbey De Valloires and today my friends and I headed back there to eat and wander around.
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posted: Sunday, 7th July 2013
Today is stil wonderfully hot and sunny so we headed off to a brocante in a local village to look for treasures. I came home with some brass owl, four brooches and lots of little pins.
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posted: Saturday, 6th July 2013
Today is still gloriously sunny and warm and my friends who I've brought with me and I head off to Hesdin to do some shopping. There's a great little bric-a-brac shop just outside town and an antiques shop next door where we while away many hours.
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posted: Friday, 5th July 2013
I've headed over to France to visit my parents and enjoy the sunny weather in the countryside rather than in London.
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posted: Wednesday, 3rd July 2013
I have recently fallen in love with Washi Tape but am finding it hard to get any in the UK (especially all those with amazing patterns) so stocked up when I was in Canada so that I could add to my collection and also add a kit using the tape to my website.
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