More Sparkles And Stripes

posted: Sunday, 19th July 2015

I'm beading like crazy and have gone back to my Icos design to make some very sparkly earrings. These crystals are just ridiculously beautiful and so full of colour and depth. Each colour I choose I manage to fall more in love with than the last.

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Storms, Stripes And Sparkles

posted: Saturday, 18th July 2015

My life is crazy hectic at the moment between beading, having family staying (always lovely!) and trying to keep on top of everything I fell into bed early last night, exhausted, only to be woken up bright flashes of lightning with no accompanying sound of thunder and no rain... very eerie

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I Love London 2

posted: Friday, 17th July 2015

Out and about in London I found this beautiful hoarding around a building site.

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Bead Embroidery Continues

posted: Thursday, 16th July 2015

All is going well except beading too late at night meant I completely forgot what a cherry really looked like and went completely off the path...

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Christmas 2015 Secret Bead-Along

posted: Wednesday, 15th July 2015

As crazy as it seems my mind has been on Christmas 2015 for a while as I've beaded the project for the advent secret bead-along, ordered all the supplies and begun kitting it up.

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Armarria And Time Run

posted: Saturday, 11th July 2015

A lovely day teaching Armarria at Charisma Beads today. As always it was a treat to see the different colour variations appear over the hours.

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Secrets And Candles

posted: Friday, 10th July 2015

I'm doing a lot of beading that's being kept behind the scenes for various reasons at the moment, but be assured as soon as they can be shown they will be.

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Neon Tigers And Travel

posted: Thursday, 9th July 2015

There's a tube strike today so my 2-hour journey turned into a 4-hour one, all for the sake of a less than 3 minute appointment.

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Oodles Of Rivolis

posted: Monday, 6th July 2015

I only launched my restocked Rivoli medals pack on Friday but immediately they sold out so I've had to rapidly get more stock in for a new set and so this evening is spent putting together random selections aka playing with rivolis.

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Chartreuse Green

posted: Sunday, 5th July 2015

I'm waiting on the 'cherries' to arrive for my Manhattan bead embroidery piece so I've skipped ahead to my Daiquiri ones.

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