First website order!

I'm quite excited this week as I've had my first order through ladybirdbeads.co.uk - a pretty pastel anklet and a Mother's Love bracelet that I sent winging off to France this morning. True to form, I was sooooo excited that I forgot to take pictures of them before I sent them off, though there are examples of both in previous posts...I have taken pictures of the gemstone charm bracelets I've been making though, so here they are. The pink one is candy jade with lots of different heart charms, and the purple one is amethyst. I'm currently working on an onyx version and will post pics of that when it's done.





I've also just joined flickr and have been looking at these amazing photochrom images of Wales from the late nineteenth century - I love seeing how places change over the years and some of these images take me right back to holidays at the seaside, as well as to my uni days in Aberystwyth. See them and more here http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3751657243/

The beads have taken over the wooooooorrrrldddd!

My poor stitching is suffering as I've been kept really busy since coming back from holiday with jewellery orders! I make a solemn promise to it here and now that as soon as this batch is out of the way I'll spend some time on it and take it to the framers so that it's ready in time for my parents' Ruby Wedding in September.

It's not all beads though, I have been knitting iphone socks for friends recently on the tube, which is a great excuse to buy all the gorgeous sock yarn there is these days!