posted: Wednesday, 1st March 2017
One of the many reasons I love beading is the endless possibilities. An extra round here, a decrease there etc and you have created something brand new.
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posted: Monday, 27th February 2017
A trip to Kew Gardens today to see their orchid festival and be inspired by the beautiful shapes and colour on display, before being caught in a crazy hailstorm. I guess Storm Doris is still hanging around.
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posted: Saturday, 25th February 2017
I'm over in France at the moment where it's cold & rainy but at least not as stormy as London has been (hence the felled tree outside our house).
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posted: Sunday, 19th February 2017
I'm working on a new variation of a project to test the instructions and have beaded 24 little triangles all ready to zip together and form the 3D shape.
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posted: Saturday, 18th February 2017
The weather is still amazing for February so we took advantage of it and had a few hours away from work to do a bit of geocaching which is a great way to discover your local area and even find amazingly coiffured trees and hedges.
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posted: Friday, 17th February 2017
It was so sunny today, and stayed light until gone 6pm which it hasn't done for many months, so I'm celebrating the approach of summer by cracking open the rosé - I'm nothing if not optimistic!
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posted: Wednesday, 15th February 2017
Off into Central London this evening to see The David Hockney exhibition at the Tate Britain (and not the Tate Modern as I imagined leading to a mad dash across London in a taxi to get there before it closed...).
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posted: Tuesday, 14th February 2017
I've been working on this project for over a year now trying to perfect how it sits and the method of beading it so it will be ready to launch as a pattern or a class.
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posted: Wednesday, 8th February 2017
I'm working hard behind the scenes on 2 new books (A year of Rivolis and Geometric Beaded Vessels) and also updating my 2 Geometric Beadwork books (Volume One here and Volume Two here).
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posted: Tuesday, 7th February 2017
It's been 6 months since I last picked up this sparkling variation of my Tretze pendant which uses lovely crystals and beads from stitchncraft beads
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