Martha's moth is a design that began life as a question... 'Can you make me a moth?' sketches for the Martha's Moth Brooc...

grape hyacinth and primroses My lovely German beady chums call the pass time of browsing for inspiration 'Schnicky Schnacky shopping...

The catwalks are bristling with crucifixes, and it's hard to find a t-shirt without a sparkly metallic cross printed or marked out in st...

Do you also have a habit of arranging temporary still lives on window sills and shelves? For me, these sometimes kick start new design ide...

Estelle variation The Estelle workshop is proving very popular, it's fun and easy,  and works up into prettiness in all sorts of va...

So, after telling you how it got started here I can now show and share my finished piece. The Beadworkers Guild are having an exhibition ...

New Albion Stitch 'Ancient Treasure' I've made a promise to try and post more about the beading... much of what I do 'ri...

The Natural History Museum exuberant column top to go  My friend Mary and I spent a day in Oxford visiting both the Pitt Rivers and...

Lynn and Gillian Had a lovely day in London yesterday with my friends Gillian , bead artist extraordinaire, Lynn , who owns a little slic...

a snap from the i-photo stash Recently I was being interviewed for an article and interviewer asked, 'do you keep a sketch book?'...