Recently my best friend moved house, like me she’s a lamp worker, her new place doesn’t have a shed, or workshop, no where for her to light her torch and melt until her hearts content. Lampwork is a meditative process, it…
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One of the hardest parts of working for yourself is the constant need to evolve and being able to recognise when it needs to happen, maintain interest whilst being able to make things that bring you joy. Recently I have…
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I have been making beads for nearly ten years, granted the first couple were a huge learning curve, and it certainly took a while before I had anything I felt was saleable and even longer before I could confidently say…
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It’s Saturday morning, nothing rare about that except for the fact that we have been blessed with a bluer than blue sky today, not a single cloud. It’s not a day for working, I’m sitting in the garden enjoying my…
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One of the things I love most about what I do is the opportunities to diversify, as with so many other crafts, one often leads to another and another, in some respects its distracting, in others its a joy, I…
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One of the biggest dilemmas I face is how to choose colours when inspiration just doesn’t strike. There is a natural ebb and flow to creating, times when you are bubbling over with ideas and plans and other times when…
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Having spent the last week in Skye and having been blessed with extraordinary weather.Incredible views and some incredible sights. Its been interesting visiting various crafters from yarn, dyers, potters, artists and weavers to see how the natural colours here have…
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Its the easter holidays in Scotland, as usual we took ages making our minds up about where we were planning to spend the time off. Three years ago we went to Skye with friends and loved it so we decided…
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When I first started on my lamp working journey I was determined not to create character beads, its odd really but at the time they somehow didn’t feel quite ‘proper’ ….I know, right! Since then I have had a massive…
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This weekend I found myself with quite a stash of my pebble beads, I like to let a bowl full build up and then sit down and pick out colour combinations. There is something soothing about sorting and arranging the…
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