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...

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...