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! It's time for my Prima Bead Blog Team monthly post and I have to say that this month has been quite a challenge fo...

Hello Everyone! Following on from my big stripe reveal a couple of weeks ago, I have more news as Preciosa have now sent out their Augu...

Hello everyone! The latest issue of Digital Beading Magazine is now available and although I don't have a project in this one, I d...

A couple of weeks ago the Midnight Garden had a visitor.  Of course I couldn't show you on the blog at the time because of the contest ...

I have some exciting news!  In conjunction with The Bead Shop (Manchester) I am running an easy to enter contest to win a fabulous hand pi...

I am sure you are all tired of me telling you how much my life has changed since I discovered beads - but it's true, things have evolve...

Well, here I am, slowly nosing my way out of hibernation, stretching, sniffing the air and gradually adjusting to Life After Mum.  I am pic...

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...

I used to have a normal 9 to 5 job - it paid the bills but it made me miserable and every day I would gaze out of the window longing to be ...

Well here I am ... already 8 months into my beady experiment of using one colour of beads for a whole year to create a themed body of work ...

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...