The Royal Ballet’s 2012-13 season opened last night with a magnificent performance of Swan Lake. Happily I seem to have pulled through the worst of the recent ME relapse and was able to get to the theatre and enjoy the show. It was great to be back after a summer without ballet. For anyone who…
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Heatherwick Buttons – Part 1
Unfortunately I’m still struggling with a bad bout of M.E. at the moment, so I’ve spent more time resting than beading this week. On the plus side, resting usually means hundreds of new ideas popping into my head, so I’ve been staring at five buttons in the hope of getting one of those Eureka moments!…
Is copying the sincerest form of flattery?
I was a little shocked to read an article that reported a beader on YouTube had posted a video stating that once a beading design is printed in a magazine, readers have the right to use free reign with the design and make it up for re-sale, teach it etc. Happily the article went on…
Cornish Adventures
Well, it’s been two weeks since I posted anything here – I had hoped to be able to write a post or two from Cornwall, but unfortunately my plans for being able to access the internet down there didn’t work out! My family originally came from Cornwall and it is a county that is very…
Olympic Inspiration: the Evolution of a Design
I mentioned in an earlier post that I’d caught the Olympic bug and decided to express that with a new design. Well, after many hours of thought, experimentation and beading, here it is: my Olympic inspired necklace! Just in time for the Paralympic Games and this time around, these seem extra special as they are…
In Celebration of Beaders!
Well, this has been a busy week and I have plenty of topics from which to choose a theme…I could be writing about a brilliant trip to the Globe Theatre to see ‘Taming of the Shrew’. I love that theatre and the way in which it recreates the Shakespearean experience: it feels like stepping back…
An Olympic Hangover
Well, like a lot of the rest of London, if not the UK, or perhaps even the world, I’m suffering a little from an Olympic Hangover! I really did not expect to feel this way, having managed to avoid getting over-excited at the prospect of hosting the Olympics. That’s not to say that I didn’t…
