A Busy Week

This week I have been fairly quiet online as I have been busy making up various comissions. I have sent out a few orders and was pleased to have emails from very happy customers. One of the comissions which is yet to go out as I still need to do the earrings is this.

It is the first time I have made large versions of my spring garden beads. it is 22 inches and the beads are approximately 20mm rounds.

Off the subject of beads for a minute, what do you think of the latest addition to our family?
Isn't he just gorgeous!! My daughter Megan is holding him. He is still living with his birth mummy at the moment but we pick him up on 6th December and I can't tell you how excited I am! I am calling him Ditto as I had a black Cocker Spaniel several years ago who was just the best dog ever.

Beads from Laura Sparling Course

Well Saturday brought the arrival of my long awaited beads from the day I spent with Laura Sparling. There were a few others but these are the best ones from my batch.Hope you've had a good weekend
Helen x

Laura Sparling Day

How lucky was I? Last Saturday I spent the whole day with a lovely group of ladies learning tricks of the trade from Laura Sparling, one of my favourite UK lampworkers. We all met at Fireworks Studio in Bristol. Georgina and John were perfect hosts and I can thoroughly recommend checking them out, especially the included lunch made by John!

Laura herself was a joy to watch and work with and I feel I made real progress with my beads under her expert guidance. An example of which can be seen in the 2 photographs below. The first picture is my latest hand shaped heart bead which I am really pleased with and hangs proudly around my neck as I type. The second picture is the very first so called heart shaped bead I ever made.......oh dear!!!
I have also been busy filling a custom order for my stretchy bracelets and decided to take a photo of them altogether. I am rather chuffed with this picture and am going to update my website home page with it as I feel it best represents the work I am producing at the moment. Hope you like it too.

I'm still working hard to get stock of beads and jewellery onto the website in time for Christmas shopping!