posted: Tuesday, 2nd June 2015
National Beading Week, and my Secret bead-along is fast approaching, and I'm delighted to say that over 400 individuals and over 25 shops & groups from all around the World have so far signed up to take part.
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posted: Monday, 1st June 2015
My latest newsletter went out today with details of my brand new pattern available to purchase - Sparkle Stars.
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posted: Sunday, 31st May 2015
I've now beaded 2 bronze triangle bangles and have moved onto a set using blue as well.
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posted: Saturday, 30th May 2015
About 20 years ago I tore a page from a home decorating magazine of a paint chart, such as you'd find in a DIY store, used to decorate a wall.
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posted: Wednesday, 27th May 2015
A trip out to Hastings today, which also wonderfully had lots of antique shops for us to peruse, and we got to enjoy the wonderful sunshine.
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posted: Tuesday, 26th May 2015
I've got a couple of days out of London and today we visited Rye which has a glorious number of antique shops, even if some of them have odd displays...
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posted: Monday, 25th May 2015
More house clearing and today I had to move my collection of vintage cocktail and entertaining books.
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posted: Sunday, 24th May 2015
I've had to abandon my latest pentagon half-way through as I've run out of the thread I was using for it and don't want to switch to another one.
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posted: Saturday, 23rd May 2015
It's all go at the Power household as we finally manage to finish unpacking and do some decorating in anticipation of some beautiful dark teal 1950s style sofas we've ordered.
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posted: Thursday, 21st May 2015
I'd forgotten just how much I love beading pentagons. They're complicated enough that they keep my interest but the repetitive pattern means once I've done a few segments I can leave the instructions alone.
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