'Morocco'

These spicy-looking beads and also some teal green ones will be for sale on my website at 8.30pm (UK time) this evening.

'Springtime'

It's a-coming; pretty flowers here and there, bright sunshine, and longer daylight hours.  So I made these crocus-inspired 'Springtime' beads to celebrate.

They will be for sale on my website at 8.30pm (UK time) this evening.

Come Melt With Me

I’m going to be doing some one-to-one tuition during March and April. Tuition will take place in my shed which is in Cambridge.

I’m setting aside Wednesdays and Thursdays for this.

If you’re an absolute beginner I am offering a four hour session from 11.30am to 3.30pm. During this time we will cover the basics of beadmaking and we’ll pull stringer, make round beads and then use stringer and frit to decorate them. All materials, tea, coffee and biscuits (essential beadmaking equipment) are included in the tuition fee and obviously you will get to keep all the beads we make. The price for this four hour session is £100.00.

If you’ve done a spot of beadmaking before and you’d like to brush up on skills like stringer application, shaping and encasing then I am offering tuition at a rate of £25.00 per hour. It is entirely up to you how many hours you’d like but I’d suggest no more than five as there’s only so much beadmaking your brain can do before it gets tired. Just send me an email outlining what you’re interested in learning and for how long and we’ll arrange some times on a Wednesday or Thursday.

If you’d like to book some tuition with me please send me an email. I will require a fifty percent deposit (non-refundable) at the time of booking with the remainder payable on the day of your tuition. For deposits I will accept PayPal, bank transfer or cheque.

Wishing you a happy Saturday!

'Purple Haze'

These purple lovelies are for sale right now.  They're in the usual place.

Some stuff what I have done

As I said in my last post, I haven't been doing a lot.  But even so I have recorded these non-events using the medium of iPhone photography. Please allow me to bore you with some of those images now ...

I've been doing quite a lot of staring out of windows.

I've become addicted to chai tea latte.

I am still obsessed with red.

I have developed an alarmingly keen interest in post boxes.

I keep making kitsch-but-yum pineapple upside down cakes.

I've been listening to and letching on Matt Berry. (*purr-grunt*)

I've been trying to make beadmaking a tad more glam.

I've been eating sweet peanuts. (Remember those?)

I had a go at blowing glass on a tiny scale.

And I've seen some truly awful TV.  Here's me watching Cash In The Attic.

So there you have it.  I've been making beads in between all that but you've seen those already.  I think that just about brings you up to date. Now I just need to stay on top of this blogging malarkey ...