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Fun with the Coiling Gizmo! 20 Aug 2012 | 02:45 am
I love gadgets and I especially love getting to grips with a new one and exploring what it can do. Our new Artistic Wire Coiling Gizmo is no exception. I take my hat off to the inventor, LeRoy Goertz,...
More fabric adventures 12 Aug 2012 | 06:22 pm
Following on from a brief excursion into making fabric beads (to which I will return, oh yes!) I've turned my attention to making yoyos. This decision arose from looking at my vast fabric stash and re...
Adventures with fabric beads! 21 Feb 2012 | 11:35 am
Well, hello again everyone and here I am at last after heaven knows how many long months (a year or more, even!) away from this blog, very sorry for the over long absence but I *will* make up for it, ...
Beautiful beads, found on Etsy! 25 Jul 2010 | 03:45 am
The second of my posts on recent wonderful finds on Etsy and Folksy. I mentioned in my last post about re-considering the type of jewellery I make and since I've always found pieces incorporating sem...
Lovely lucite, found on Folksy! 24 Jul 2010 | 11:29 pm
This is the first of a series of posts about all the lovely things I've been buying on Etsy and Folksy recently. The first two of these posts are going to be about some stunning beading supplies I've ...
A day out in Fairyland. 12 Jul 2010 | 05:29 am
We decided this afternoon to take our new motor for a spin and ended up at Cannon Hall near Barnsley, seat of the Spencer Stanhope family. It's always been one of our favourite haunts and we hadn't be...
Paper beads - a bit more about the process. 8 Jul 2010 | 05:13 am
Since I'm now feeling better - hurray!!! - I thought I'd post a bit about my process in making paper beads. I started out by experimenting with old magazine pages but decided I wanted more control ov...
The Return of Stanzi! 30 Jun 2010 | 05:51 am
She's back, the one and only Stanzi, aka Shming Shmong, Winzip, Zoony etc, etc!! Firstly, here is her classic "Spooky Eyes" pose, complete with equally spooky claw marks on the banister rails... And...
Beads, lovely beads... 30 Jun 2010 | 01:31 am
Today I visited our second hand market for the first time in ages and ages. It's right at the opposite end of town from where I work but I had to attend a lunchtime function over there and was passing...
Please help this Etsy seller raise funds to treat her dog Pepper, the victim of appalling cruelty. 26 Jun 2010 | 04:46 am
A fellow Etsy seller, doubleddesign, is having a sale in her shop to help raise funds for treatment for her dog Pepper, who was thrown from a truck by person or persons currently unknown and sustained...
