I've just returned home after a lovely couple of weeks visiting family in Spain and there were so many beady things happening in the ru...

Happy New Year everyone! Well 2012 didn't quite go according to plan but although there is a gaping Mum-shaped hole in my life, I ...

Did I ever tell you the tale of Ms. Bougainvillea Bouquet?  She's had a long and interesting journey and I was reminded of that today w...

Around this time last year, I shared the news that my foxglove necklace had been included in Creative Beading Volume 4 - a yearbook of jewe...

The April issue of Bead & Button magazine is out and my project 'Bougainvillea Bouquet' is on page 58.  I used hot pink and bri...

I am very pleased to announce that my Hibiscus Twist necklace will appear on the cover of the April 2009 issue of Bead & Button magazin...

Happy New Year everyone! I'm getting back into the flow of things after spending Christmas and New Year with my parents. We had a love...

Well 2008 has been an amazing year for me. Some recent low points such as redundancy and family illness, but mostly it has been a wonderful...

The Power of Beading Contest ends today (although you can still buy the pattern for my Awareness Pins here with all monies raised until Se...

I hadn't intended to blog again until after the finish date of the Power of Beading Contest & Charity Fundraiser as I thought it w...

Guilty as charged! I have not blogged for almost three weeks! This is mainly due to the fact that I visited my parents for the whole of last...

Ever since January of this year, when my first design was published in Bead magazine , I have been receiving e-mails from readers regarding...

Typically, it's a gloriously sunny day here today - because of course YESTERDAY was Bank Holiday Monday! To be honest, it wasn't rea...