Blog & Beading Tips

As you may have read in my previous post, my biggest piece of work to date ‘Emerald City’ was heavily inspired by the novel Wicked by Gregory Maguire, the basis for the hit musical of the same name. I simply had to share it with the intrepid author and was delighted at his response: “Wow, […]

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In just two weeks time the workshops across the county will be open for Hampshire Open Studios – join me in Romsey with three other artists and find out more about the art on your doorstep. My good friend Kate will be throwing open the doors of her beautiful garden studio for eight whole days from […]

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For those following my Facebook activity, you may have seen that the past few months have been taken up with secret beading for the annual Stitchncraft Challenge and today the winners were unveiled. I travelled down to the lovely shop in Shaftesbury with my dear friend Jan for a day of bead-related fun and to find […]

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The latest issue of Making Jewellery has hit the shelves and it’s packed full of wonderful projects inspired by the Orient. I’m delighted to say that my Kirakira bangles feature this issue, you can find out how to make them on page 17. Stitched using Starman QuadraLentils, seed beads and sparkling Swarovski crystals these bangles […]

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Last weekend was a lot of fun – I spent Saturday at Spoilt Rotten Beads in the pretty village of Haddenham, Ely, teaching a lovely group of ladies how to stitch my Crystal Galaxy components. We spent the day stitching pearls and seed beads around dazzling Swarovski crystals. Some of the group decided to turn their components […]

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Summer is definitely on its way and right now the shops are full of bright tropical colours and prints. These are some of my favourite colours to work with so when Making Jewellery magazine asked me to create something for their Tropical Splash issue, I jumped at the chance! Imagine my delight when I discovered that my […]

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I’ve been looking forward to this issue for a while. We designers were challenged to create projects inspired by photographs and I had a lot of fun with my design! I take a lot of photographs; of my guinea pigs, friends, my creations – but I also enjoy taking photos of things that catch my […]

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My second trip of the year to Stitchncraft Beads was even more fun than the first! I was joined by nine lovely ladies for a full day creating fascinators and tiaras. I had designed the class to be fairly flexible and informal, so after demonstrating and explaining some of the basic wirework techniques they would […]

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Last week I received an exciting delivery and I can now reveal what was in my package. Last year I created some designs using the latest Starman Beads; the QuadraTiles and Bar beads. In addition to having this jewellery returned to me after its travels around America, I was also sent some of these cute […]

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Huge thanks to Making Jewellery magazine for featuring a Designer Profile on me in the April issue! I was honoured to have a full page article which you can find on page 31. Issue 78 is packed full of a huge array of projects, my favourite is the stunning polymer clay flower project by Lizzi Bucklow-Holt. There’s […]

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