They're not that big at 20 x 20 cm and 10 x 15 cm but quite dense.
Though they are all similar each has a few differences.
I've even managed to use some of those beads that I bought and didn't know quite what to do with!
All I'm working on now for them is to frame or not to frame. I have a couple of thoughts and will work on that soon. I hope they look like the rich diversity you find in rockpools and I think I will be putting them aside to show in Shaftesbury next year.
I also still had a bit of bead embroidery left in me after the bag and made a brooch up. The centre cabochon is Peridot and bronze.
I have collected lots and lots of beautiful stones over the years and I think I will be making up some more brooches. Nice to make and very wearable.
Today is the launch day of this quarter's Workshop on the Web magazine. If you don't know it, it's a quarterly online publication headed up by Maggie Grey. This month I have an article in. I have also made a two part video to accompany the article which I found great fun to do. Unfortunately you have to be a member to read and view but I must say it is a very good read and very much worth the £22.50 yearly subscription.
Willow had a little incident last week seeing if she liked barbed wire earrings. Unfortunately they didn't agree with her! Here she is looking very sorry for herself as well as quite daft.
She has now recovered and the plastic skin on the cut is holding together quite nicely thank goodness. Ears bleed profusely and add to that a few head shakes and it soon looks like a massacre!
We are now back to romps over the fields which are so much more fun now the crops are off.
I am now finally attacking the last three sections of my Machine Embroidery course. I won't be sad to see the back of it I can tell you!! If you remember it was a huge struggle to get any sense from my first tutor and I was in a constant battle with her. I really feel the whole thing was tainted from that point on. Remind me not to do any more long term courses again wont you, especially if a certain tutor from Norfolk is involved!!!
