posted: Monday, 31st December 2018
2018 ends today and a new year begins.
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posted: Sunday, 30th December 2018
Today’s project from my Rivoli Beadwork book is my ‘Rivoli Hearts‘.
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posted: Wednesday, 26th December 2018
Today’s project from my new book Rivoli Beadwork are these ‘Claw Bezels’.
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posted: Tuesday, 25th December 2018
When you perfect a necklace design and then realise the perfect rope is mostly size 15s.... it’s gonna be a long few days...
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posted: Monday, 24th December 2018
Day 24 and the Christmas 2018 Secret Beadalong is all done!
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posted: Sunday, 23rd December 2018
Today’s project from my Rivoli Beadwork book is my ‘Laura Necklace ‘.
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posted: Saturday, 22nd December 2018
Day 22 of the Christmas 2018 Secret Beadalong and it’s all starting to come together...
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posted: Friday, 21st December 2018
4 double-sided Diamonds all ready for the next step in the Christmas 2018 Secret Beadalong main ornament...
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posted: Thursday, 20th December 2018
Day 20 of the Christmas 2018 Secret Beadalong and just like that it’s all change!
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posted: Wednesday, 19th December 2018
Day 19 of the Christmas 2018 Secret Beadalong and I now have 3 double-sided Rivoli Diamonds..
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posted: Tuesday, 18th December 2018
The Christmas 2018 Secret Beadalong is progressing nicely and I now have two reversible Diamonds...
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posted: Monday, 17th December 2018
From a Rivoli to a Diamond and now to a double-sided Diamond...
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posted: Sunday, 16th December 2018
I've been waylaid with a bug for a few days but I’m out of my sick bed and back to beading - yay!
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posted: Saturday, 15th December 2018
Today’s project from my new book ‘Rivoli Beadwork’ is ‘Herringbone Pearls’.
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posted: Friday, 14th December 2018
Today’s project from my Rivoli Beadwork book is my ‘RAW Pearls Scarf Ring ‘.
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posted: Thursday, 13th December 2018
Today’s project from my Rivoli Beadwork book is my ‘Sally bracelet ‘.
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posted: Wednesday, 12th December 2018
A downside to being self-employed, and working by yourself, is that there's no work Christmas do, so you have to make your own.
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posted: Tuesday, 11th December 2018
My beaded Honeycombs from my new book ‘Rivoli Beadwork’ are a fun way to quickly bezel Rivolis and are ideal to use individually, for earrings or pendants, or in groups to make bracelets or earrings.
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posted: Monday, 10th December 2018
Day 10 of the Christmas 2018 Secret Beadalong and I’m keeping up but beading 3 ornaments at the same time is making it a struggle...
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posted: Sunday, 9th December 2018
Day 9 of the Christmas 2018 Secret Beadalong and I’ve bezelled 3 Rivolis- 1 for the Main Ornament, 1 for the Bonus Ornament and 1 for the new Bonus, Bonus Ornament...
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posted: Saturday, 8th December 2018
Day 8 of the Christmas 2018 Secret Beadalong and my collection of components is growing...
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posted: Friday, 7th December 2018
I'm down at StitchnCraft again today to teach my Gates Class and it's a real treat to see Rivoli Beadwork for sale in an actual shop.
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posted: Thursday, 6th December 2018
I had no time for beading yesterday so I got behind on the Christmas 2018 Secret Beadalong but 30 minutes beading on the train today and I’m all caught up with both ornaments.
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posted: Wednesday, 5th December 2018
I was fortunate enough to have an amazing visit to the Yayoi Kusama show ‘THE MOVING MOMENT WHEN I WENT TO THE UNIVERSE’
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posted: Tuesday, 4th December 2018
It's Day 4 of the Christmas 2018 Secret Beadalong and I'm loving how both ornaments are looking so far... but very jealous of some of the amazing colour schemes I've seen begin to develop on the Beadalong Facebook page!
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posted: Monday, 3rd December 2018
It's Day 3 of the Christmas 2018 Secret Beadalong and as the Main Ornament is reversible I'm taking the opportunity to add in a completely different colour with some Padparadscha Rivolis.
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posted: Sunday, 2nd December 2018
It's Day 2 of the Christmas 2018 Secret Beadalong and so far I'm keeping up with beading both options at once.
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posted: Saturday, 1st December 2018
The Christmas 2018 Secret Beadalong begins today and it's only this evening as I sat down to begin beading it that I finally narrowed my colour choices down (somewhat) but they may still change as I go on.
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posted: Friday, 30th November 2018
Today's projects from Rivoli Beadwork are these 'Wheat Sheaves'.
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posted: Thursday, 29th November 2018
Today's project from Rivoli Beadwork are these Bicone Bezels.
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posted: Wednesday, 28th November 2018
Amazingly copies of Rivoli Beadwork have already begun arriving all around the world even though I only clicked 'launch' less than 24 hours ago. Technology is amazing and terrifying!
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posted: Tuesday, 27th November 2018
And just like that, nearly 2 years after I first had the spark of an idea to do a book on Rivolis, it's here.
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posted: Saturday, 24th November 2018
A trip to Solihull today to teach my Geometric Suspensions pieces and also my Zaila Class.
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posted: Thursday, 22nd November 2018
The 3rd and final proof copies of my new book have arrived and the race is on to check it all through ready to launch very soon...
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posted: Monday, 19th November 2018
Behind the scenes my life is consumed by proofreading my new book, taking new photos for it and constantly adjusting the layout by millimetres to get it exactly as I want it.
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posted: Friday, 9th November 2018
The first proof copies of my new book are here and the countdown begins until it's launched - not long now!
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posted: Thursday, 8th November 2018
My lovely friend Lisa Garoon, from City Beads in Chicago, is over in London (mainly to take my Lisa class which is named after her!) and we're having a fabulous few days wandering London, seeing the amazing Everybody's Talking About Jamie, and browsing in beautiful shops.
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posted: Tuesday, 6th November 2018
We're still working away behind the scenes...
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posted: Monday, 5th November 2018
Tonight is the big night down in Lewes and we get to see thousands of fireworks, many, many bonfires that light up the sky, tributes to the end of the First World War, suffragettes, effigies being burnt and much more.
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posted: Sunday, 4th November 2018
The book and all its changes are done and now I'm just waiting for physical copies for us to proofread to arrive.
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posted: Saturday, 3rd November 2018
The new Rivoli book has so many photos in it but we saved one of them to last and today I'm busy trying to arrange some of the beadwork from the book to capture a fun photo for the back of the book...
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posted: Friday, 2nd November 2018
Having bezelled literally hundreds of Rivolis this past year for my new book you'd think I'd be ready for something new... but no!
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posted: Thursday, 1st November 2018
A very early start today to head down to StitchnCraft Beads to be a student for a couple of days.
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posted: Wednesday, 31st October 2018
The past 3 days of photos have been tough.
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posted: Monday, 29th October 2018
This is it!
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posted: Wednesday, 24th October 2018
I'm so busy behind the scenes with work, the book & life only leaving the house today to head for a hospital visit.
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posted: Tuesday, 16th October 2018
I escaped today for a trip to a spa in Bury St Edmonds which was much needed.
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posted: Saturday, 13th October 2018
The new Rivolis book is well underway and now I'm doing fancy things like choosing colours for the tops of the pages to help you navigate through the book.
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posted: Friday, 12th October 2018
It's getting very grey & rainy here in London, with the evenings now being very dark and soon the clocks will go forward and winter will hit... so I know I definitely need some more sparkle & light in my life and this Heart of Glass necklace kit certainly provides that!
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posted: Wednesday, 10th October 2018
So much of what I'm working on at the moment is staying under-wraps for now as it's either to do with the Christmas 2018 Secret Beadalong or my new Rivolis book but I’m also working on lots of other things such as finishing up the instructions for my new Lisa class which launches next month.
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posted: Tuesday, 9th October 2018
A very sparkling day out today to see the new Swarovski launch and catch-up with beading friends Shona Bevan and Stephanie Burnham with whom I'll be doing something very exciting next year so keep an eye on my newsletter to find out more in the new year...
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posted: Sunday, 7th October 2018
Can you believe it’s only 55 days until the Christmas 2018 Secret Beadalong begins?!?!
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posted: Friday, 5th October 2018
I love having any reason to add crystals to my beadwork so when I returned to some very old beading samples I had back in March I really went for it.
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posted: Thursday, 4th October 2018
The biggest upside/ downside to self-publishing is that right down to the last minute you can say ‘let me just squeeze 1 or 2 more projects in...’
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posted: Monday, 1st October 2018
A trip to Long Beach today to spend time with Franklin Martin.
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