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Read more →Remember that little ditty said for weddings “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue” This is a piece of jewellery I have created for my sister who got married at the weekend. I made it a couple of weeks ago, but kept it under wraps until the night before the wedding. This necklace is [...]
Read more →I’ve been asked to make an Anniversary Card and I wanted to do something a little bit different. I’d bought some gold rose printed vellum a short time ago (really only to justify postage and packing on something I REALLY needed!) and had not had any ideas on how to use it. Anyway, copied the [...]
Read more →I have made these little candles for a craft fair at Halloween. They are scented with pumpkin fragrance and were the very devil to make!!! (no pun intended). The shell of the candle is made with orange wax scented with pumpkin and the inside wax is made using blood red wax scented pumpkin so [...]
Read more →Rainbow disks are a publishers of craft books on CD. covering wide range of subjects from beading and card making to quilting and stained glass. Disk include: Tiaras and Bridal Jewellery Projects using beads and wire Bead Net New Ideas for Netted Beadwork Beaded Jewellery Over 50 gorgeous designs and projects Rainbow Disks was [...]
Read more →Well, I’ve spent the last couple of days making watchbands out of lots of swarovski crystals. It would have been fine had it just been a design for one of our ladies on the forum, but then came the request from the US……………..I now have to keep making them until I hit on the right [...]
Read more →I am currently in the middle of putting together all sorts of wedding items for my sister and other clients. I’ve got very, very sore fingers from all the wire work. It seems that burgundy tones are very much the in colour for bridesmaids so much of my latest work has been with this in [...]
Read more →So I was up to my eyes in it trying to get a very long Russian spiral necklace finished for a friend, when I get a piece of mother of pearl given to me by Nina, with the words ‘can you do anything with that?’ following close behind. I had been practising making beaded cabouchons [...]
Read more →I came across this site yesterday and find it will be very useful especially if your mojo has taken a hike. It’s got great templates for both cards and scrap pages alike so thought i’d share it with you. Here’s a card i’ve made using one of their card maps. Can you guess which one i’ve [...]
Read more →This article appeared in the Bath Evening Chronicle on 29th August ====================================================== Small businesses in the Bath area have been urged to do more to promote themselves. Jane Silk, chairwoman of the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s (CIM) Bristol and West branch, said many Bath firms were losing out because they were treating marketing as a [...]
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