First of all, I’d like to wish you a happy new year and I hope 2018 is a peaceful year full of health, happiness and creative fun for you all! When I came to tidy up my workbench I found some little leftover scraps from some scrap clay Mokume Gane, there were too small to do much with so I decided to do some polymer patchwork. Nice bit of polymer clay recycling 🙂 I was pretty pleased how they turned out so I cured them and added a back...

Instructions for fish pendant as seen on Jewellery Maker TV on the 21st June 2017, click here to see the demo.

  I will be at the Totterdown Frontroom Arts Trail this weekend from 11am-6pm on Saturday and Sunday at 13 Hawthorne Street, Totterdown, Bristol with this years Christmas Decoration – Winter Trees Snow Globe.       Next weekend I will be at the American Museum in Britain in Bath for their lovely Christmas Craft Fair. Open Saturday and Sunday 12 til 4.30pm  ...

Earlier this year I took part  Brit Hammers excellent Photographing Fine Art and Craft Guided Study Course. I have mentioned the course in some of my other blog posts this year and hopefully, especially  if you have been following my blog for a while, you will noticed the improvement in my photographs!  It was a very intense and very rewarding experience which I have reviewed in detail in an article published recently in the Fall issue of The...

I have been running a mailing list for sometime to keep in touch with local people about when I am teaching workshops and selling my jewellery. It has been getting a little cumbersome so I decided to investigate Mail Chimp as a tool for keeping it a bit more organised and most importantly keeping everyone’s data safe!Mail Chimp has lots of tools and enables me to make subgroups within the list of people interested in different things. So...

I’ve got a new personalised Canvas Shopper Bag from Bags of Love. I must say I was delighted when it arrived, very quickly! It has leather handles which look very sturdy. The sides and the base are made from patent vinyl, I chose cream but there is a range of colours available. I have a picture of one of my favourite pendants printed on canvas on either side – it looks very smart indeed! Inside there is a white waterproof lining and...