I’m going to keep this post short as I can: if you watched the show and follow my blog, you’ll know that, due to illness, I didn’t manage to appear on my scheduled ‘A Day at the Races’ themed show. However, I had managed to make lots of fun projects from the kits that I was…
Right now I should be preparing for an early night, making sure I have everything ready for my second scheduled Jewellery Maker TV show tomorrow morning. I am preparing for an early night, but it’s not for such a good reason. I’ve been struggling with a bad ME/CFS crash for about a month now. Last…
I’ll be honest here: this blog post doesn’t feature beads all that much! Beads are my work, one of my hobbies and my passion, so it’s pretty hard to write a blog that doesn’t feature them in some capacity, but this blog is much more personal (and pretty long, so you have been warned!). A…
Yes, this is another post about beads! I have a few announcements to make at the moment, so I thought it was time to write another blog post. Before I send anyone into panic with this blog title, I should just clarify that the farewell isn’t from me. I’m still playing with beads and I…
It was my first time on Jewellery Maker TV on Tuesday. I was incredibly honoured to be invited to come and join the guest designer team and to be part of their big seed bead launch on 3rd May 2016. Two hours in a TV studio sounds like a long time, but it flew past…
If you’re hoping to get an explanation of the mysterious ‘beading step up’ terminology that you may have found in your latest beading pattern, then I’m afraid this blog may disappoint you. It’s not all bad news though, I have talked about the beading step up in its technical sense here. If you’re looking to…
I want to start by emphasising that this is my personal take on a very complicated set of legislation. There is every chance that I have totally misunderstood something crucial because I’m not a lawyer or an accountant. I am a single person trying to earn some money to pay my bills and trying to…
Spring is the time of new beginnings and renewal and it certainly been the case that the past few weeks have been filled with new beginnings in my personal beading world. Bead and Jewellery magazine has been given a fantastic new look, so that has been fun to work on…as well as hard work! I’ve…
Inspiration is one of those elusive things that we ask designers about, seek out ourselves and basically can be quite hard to define. Don’t worry, I’m not about to go all philosophical on you, but I do have a couple of things to share and it occurred to me that they both fall under the…
Having said in my last blog that I wasn’t making any new year resolutions, I have had it in mind that I really should try harder to write more regular blog posts – maybe once a month minimum is realistic? The trouble is, although I seem to be permanently busy with beads in one way…
