Of course I have corrupted a line from Longfellow's 'The Rainy Day' in the title of my post today, but it perfectly expresses m...

After my last post about the new Thorn Flowers , I thought that my work with 'spike beads' was done and that in true butterfly styl...

Things are still growing very nicely in the Midnight Garden but I have to be honest with you and admit that I have no real garden plan map...

I'm still busy growing lots of new beady things for the Midnight Garden and I will show you pictures of them when I can, but in the mea...

Although I have been enjoying working on the Midnight Garden for the last 6 months, most of that time has been taken up with some quite int...

We finally have a new piece in the Midnight Garden and this one took me around 3 weeks to get right!  The prototype took nearly 10 days of ...

If you have been following my blog recently you will know that towards the end of 2011 I was invited by The Beadsmith to join an on-line gr...

It's been such a busy couple of weeks here in the beady greenhouse that I completely forgot to share some exciting news with you!  Some ...

Normal beady service has now been resumed after my metal clay adventures of last week and I have just finished the latest piece for the Mid...

As promised in my last blog entry I finally managed to finish my first piece which uses one of The Beadsmith's clasps from their '...

This piece only measures 2 inches by 1 ½ inches (5cm by 4cm) but it has still taken me the best part of 3 weeks to make!  I've loved lab...

A couple of weeks ago I visited the Harrogate bead fair and although I didn't really need any more beads, I was on the look out for som...

So, I've been busy trying to turn some of my beady imaginings into finished beadwork for the Midnight Garden exhibition and I think I am...