I’ve been looking forward to 1st April for several weeks now…not because I was planning an April Fool’s joke, but because it’s the day that Battle commenced for 192 incredible bead designer/makers from 35 countries around the world. I count myself incredibly privileged to be in that company this year. The ‘Battle’ has been organised…
Author: Katie
Happy Easter!…Special Offer
Spend £25 or more in the Bead Flowers shop over the Easter weekend and you will be entitled to £5 off your order. Just type in coupon code easter13 and the discount will automatically be applied to your shopping cart. Happy Easter to everyone! Code expires on 1st April 2013.
Secrets and Celebrations
I don’t know where the weeks are going this year…but apparently it’s now over a month since I updated my blog, which is very bad! It’s not that I don’t have any news, but I seem to have been doing a lot of projects for competitions and future magazine issues that I can’t share with…
Something Old, Something New…
Well, it’s been such a busy few weeks and full of new experiences, so where do I start?…I think the launch of my new book at the start of this month is probably as good a place as any! This is all about the new and the old. My beading journey originally began in 2003…
Are You A Beader?
One of the things people most often ask me is, ‘how do you come up with your ideas?’ Very often I don’t really know the answer to this. Sometimes, as with the Heatherwick Buttons project, the idea comes from an experience that has made an impact on me. Sometimes, it’s my reaction to a particular…
Heatherwick Buttons – Part 2
Happy New Year! New Year, fresh start and new resolutions…I’m happy to say that I’ve finally completed my Heatherwick Buttons necklace. For anyone who wants to give it a go, the pattern is now available on here. As promised though, the story behind the design…If you missed part 1 of this saga, then you can…
Season’s Greetings
I just want to wish everyone a very happy Christmas and to say a big thank you to all of you for your support this year. I hope that you all have a peaceful and enjoyable few days with family and friends and that 2013 will bring lots of good things!
Tempting Tilas
I’m going to skip over the inevitable apology for the lack of blog and just mention that I really don’t know what happened to November! Although I’ve been doing odd Christmas beading projects for a while now, it is only just hitting me that there are now only 22 days until the Big Day! Rather…
Inspiration Strikes!
Well, I’m ashamed to notice that this is my first blog of November – I’m not quite sure where this month has gone actually! I had been thinking that I needed to write a blog entry – I’m not short of news, but I was feeling a little short of inspiration. As ever, inspiration tends…
Christmas Come Early
Well, I feel I should apologise for not writing anything at all last week! The past couple of weeks have been a little crazy and it’s all been bead-related. It really feels as though winter has set in here in the UK – we’ve had damp, dull weather and now it’s turning cold. It seems…
