It hasn’t escaped my notice that it’s been an incredibly long time since I last wrote a blog post. You could be thinking that I’ve just made a New Year resolution to write more posts or at least write more frequently in 2016. Unfortunately I haven’t made that resolution! Whilst it would probably be a…
Well, I am long overdue a blog post – I’m not quite sure how we got from July to October, but it has been quite a ride…not least with my latest adventure: a show on the Craft Channel! Before I get on to that, let’s backtrack a little and share what I have been up…
If you’re new to beading, or you’ve been away from the beading scene for a while, you may be wondering what National Beading Week is. Well, it’s an initiative started by the Beadworker’s Guild in the UK in 2015. So this is in fact our very first National Beading Week. It’s all about spreading the…
One of the questions I’m most often asked is where do the ideas for your beading designs come from? Mostly, I don’t really know. Sometimes I have an image in my head and feel a compulsion to make it in beads. Sometimes I want to experiment with a concept. Sometimes I see something in the…
I hadn’t intended writing this post, but I have received so much overwhelming support from the beading community on the Battle of the Beadsmith page, along with personal messages, that I feel I want to explain a little more about how I’m feeling right now. The past few weeks have been a bit of a…
In the three years that I’ve taken part in Battle of the Beadsmith, I’ve established two personal traditions: a battle blog written just after my piece has been revealed and an exit in round 1. So, this blog upholds the first of these two traditions and I expect to continue the second when voting takes…
In case some of you have been wondering where I was last week, I took a trip to Venice, Italy. This is a fascinating and incredibly beautiful city, which I have had the pleasure of visiting before, but only for a few days. I had seen the main sights and admired the wonderful light that…
It’s now about halfway through the allocated time for the biggest of my 2015 beading competitions: the Battle of the Beadsmith, so I thought it was about time I gave you all a little preview of what I’m doing this year… …although I can’t actually do that since my piece is shrouded in the deepest…
Well, it’s been a while since I posted on here, despite my best efforts, so time to remedy that and time to show you why Battle On! is such an apt title for this post. I think my last blog was about two months ago when I was announcing plans for National Beading Week. I…
This is the first of what will probably be a series of blogs about National Beading Week 2015. This is the first event of its kind and has been organised by the Beadworker’s Guild in the UK. The event will take place from 25th July to 2nd August. The idea behind National Beading Week is…
