posted: Sunday, 20th May 2012
A quiet day with just some beading and reading the Sunday papers so here are some more photos I took on my walk yesterday.
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posted: Saturday, 19th May 2012
Today I went for my walk again and this time remembered to bring everything I need to take photos. If you want to see any of the photos I have taken then check them out on my Colour Blog: here, here and here.
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posted: Friday, 18th May 2012
I am not a natural-born photographer. The other day I went out, camera in hand, specifically to walk and take photos, and I left the battery plugged in at home in the charger.
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posted: Thursday, 17th May 2012
Arrghh, I spoke too soon about my finger. It's nicely infected now but at least not so painful but I'm going to go slow on the beading just in case.
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posted: Wednesday, 16th May 2012
More beading today, with lots of padded sticking tape acting as a temporary thimble to help my finger, and, after my prototype yesterday not working, I have decided to move onto something I know will work- some geometric beaded beads using seed beads and pearls.
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posted: Tuesday, 15th May 2012
Back to beading today and I'm working on the clasp for my latest piece. I did plan to have a hidden clasp but have decided that it won't work. So instead I'm trying to make a clasp that wil be seen, but not obviously appear to be the clasp.
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posted: Monday, 14th May 2012
I started today all fired up to bead but had to have a day off after beading too much recently has hurt my finger. It sounds pathetic doesn't it? But I find when I bead I often use part of my ring finger to push the needle
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posted: Sunday, 13th May 2012
One of the beading projects I have brought with me to Cornwall is a big, bold necklace with a dramatic geometric and crystal pendant. But unfortunately as I beaded it last week I realised that I was ONE bead out.
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posted: Saturday, 12th May 2012
Because there hasn't been nearly enough travelling in my life so far in 2012, I've headed out of London for 2 weeks to rest and recuperate in the hopefully very sunny Cornwall.
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posted: Friday, 11th May 2012
Back to work today in my little workroom (oh how I missed it) and trying to find somewhere to store all the pieces that have begun arriving for the kit to accompany Contemporary Geometric Beadwork.
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