Etsy Treasury.

I managed to grab a Treasury slot on Etsy and picked a selection of work from various members of the UK lampworkers forum, Frit Happens. Please take a look, there is a great selection of different work.

Golden Brown Treasury

Normal Service will be resumed....

I'm back from the Big Bead Show and with beads to list. I will be adding sets to my Etsy shop over the next few days. In fact there are two new sets already.


The Big Bead Show was great, I could have spent a fortune but I limited myself to a couple of strings of pearls....and the inevitable bundle of glass. I was pleased with my sales. I'm not about to retire on the proceeds but I got over the target I had mentally set as the difference between being pleased and being disappointed so I am keen to book some more bead shows. I met lots of nice people, some I already knew and others for the first time.

Back to work now, as well as listing sets on Etsy I need to make up some jewellery ready for the run up to Christmas. I have also promised to take out a few days to decorate the bigger bedroom that used to be my son's so that Phoebe can move in there. She is in the small box room at the moment and it is rather overflowing!

Big Bead Fair.

Apologies for the lack of posts here. I have been very busy with Somerset Arts Week, actually a fortnight, and more recently preparing for this Saturday's Big Bead Show at Sandown Park in Surrey.

Here is a glimpse of one of the new style sets I will have with me there.

Back from holiday.

Is it really that long since I posted here? Must try harder in future.

Well, we just got back from our holiday. We rented an apartment at Charlecote Park a beautiful National Trust property set in lovely gardens and a landscaped deer park. It was very nice looking out over the croquet pitch at deer grazing beside the river Avon! Back to reality now. Here are a few pictures though.









I'd highly recommend the National Trust holiday cottages, we have stayed in a couple and have really enjoyed them.

Etsy Treasury.

I managed to grab a Treasury slot on Etsy. I've included lots of organic style lampwork from UK beadmakers, some of it made up by some of the best jewellery makers around.

Take a look.

Heat Wave.

I had a lovely day on Sunday. I had a get together of lampworkers/jewellery makers/fusers from the Frit Happens forum. We didn't get many beads made, there was definitely more talk than action. It was great to spend the day with other people who share the same obsession. Just in case you are wondering who's who. From the left, clockwise, Steve and Kay (hollergrafik), Janine, George (http://www.designedbygeorge.co.uk/), Sal with baby Sophie, Vicky (http://www.morellobeads.co.uk/), me, Julie HB (http://www.dolmairicdesign.co.uk/) and Julie (http://www.lushlampwork.co.uk/).

So is it hot enough for you? I gave up in the workshop this afternoon, it just got too hot with the kiln and the torch! I'm hoping it will be a bit cooler on Friday as I have two ladies coming for an all day lesson.

I've just added another organic set to my Etsy shop.

Charity Auctions on Ebay.

Members of the Frit Happens Forum are getting together to raise money for the Tommy's charity which researches the causes of premature and still birth and miscarriage. I have just listed a couple of auctions the proceeds of which will go to this very worthwhile cause. I don't think there are many of us who haven't been affected by these issues either directly or through friends and relatives so please take a look.