Its been a while

I hadn't realised that such a long time has elapsed since my last post. Its not that I haven't done anything, far from it. I have had lots of exciting developments on the beaded jewelry front. I have now got my pieces being sold in a local gallery called the Bluestone Gallery. I was so pleased to have my work accepted there and it all looks really great in the glass cabinets.

I have been attending a business course provided by the Wiltshire and Berkshire Business Link. The focus was business skills and business planning. The aim is to get myself focused on producing a business plan to map out my strategy for total world bead domination!!

I have also started a bead group. We meet once a month to work on our own projects and generally support and advise each other on beady matters. If you are in the vicinity of Devizes contact me via this blog and I will give you the details of our next meeting. I am also working on some worksheets so that I can start to offer some workshops, and also sell kits of my designs.

I am a member of the Bead Workers Guild and I am working on some instructions for a piece that I made a while ago. I wore to the Wincanton bead fair and got so many compliments and questions about how I made it I thought it might be worthwhile seeing if the guild could use it for one of the issues of the journal.

So, as you can see lots has been happening. But I have managed to make time for beading. Here are some images of a technique called Ogala Butterfly.


This is my first attempt. It was supposed to be a bracelet but I attached the clasp on back to front - that's what happens when its late at night! The clasp was sterling silver so I had to salvage it for another piece. The outcome of this technique is similar to netting but it spirals. Quite a statement piece. I decided I would try again and make a necklace.






The necklace is a pretty lilac accented with a dark purple. I have got another project on the go so hopefully I will get that finished soon and post an image of it. It is very different to these pieces, it is green, blue, orange, yellow, red and white..... all will be revealed. How could i forget to metion that I have also joined a great forum at www.glassharmony.co.uk a forum dedicated to lampwork bead artists and a few interlopers like myself. I fully recommend a visit!