Hello everyone! Do you remember back in October of last year when I was lucky enough to spend the day with Marcia DeCoster ? Besides wa...

Hello Everyone! I've been aware of Marcia DeCoster 's amazingly intricate beadwork ever since I first started beading and I remem...

Around this time every year I like to look back on the previous 12 months in my little beady world.  As I ponder, I try and work out whether...

The last couple of years have been a truly amazing time for me with lots of thrilling teaching and travelling opportunities and all manner o...

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...

There seems to be a wonderful happy atmosphere here in the UK at the moment.  After an unusually cold and snowy winter, spring has arrived a...

The date for my next beading workshop is coming round fast and so I have spent the last 2 weeks busily preparing for it; writing instruction...

Several months ago, I was asked to create a necklace project for the beautiful new German beadwork magazine Perlen Poesie -  'English R...

There's not much to report at the moment as I have been busy writing instructions, drawing diagrams and taking photos for my new worksho...

Well this has been a long time in the planning stages, but I am finally able to tell you that earlier this year, I had the honour of being i...

... I teach beadwork!  This has been a long time coming, but I finally have my first workshop under my belt with several more in the pipelin...

I finally managed to lay my hands on some of the new Miyuki Tila beads last week.  I think they have probably been out for a little while n...

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...

A little while ago, Claire from Beads Direct asked if I would be interested in being part of a ‘creative challenge’. The idea was that myse...