A great week for me - one of the bracelets I designed was published this week on the website of American magazine Bead and Button. The pattern for the Art Deco themed bracelet "Diamonds and Chevrons" can be downloaded for free, but you'll have to register with the Bead and Button website to get hold of it - the link is below. It was also on the front page of the website....brag, brag, brag!
www.beadandbutton.com
Work
Another busy week. A trip to NHS East of England in the wilds of Cambridgeshire on Monday, and a trip to the Brook conference at the Oval Cricket Ground on Thursday.
Where I went
I had my non-working day on Wednesday rather than Monday, and so I decided to go for a walk in North London. I took the tube to Golders Green and started to walk South, along a road which cut across Hampstead Health to Hampstead itself, where I poked about the little streets and posh shops and got some organic bath cream. I then walked to Belsize Park where I managed to pick up a real bargain in the Marie Curie charity shop - a ghastly 70s necklace, which had 10 extremely large turquoise lampworked glass beads. Other than that I haven't been anywhere else this week.
What I made
More work on the floral filigree beaded scarf, and more work on the Black Heart square stitched bracelet. In metal clay class we started work on making a ring. I won't be able to go to the class next week - more of why not in next week's blog - so I have to do quite a lot of the filing and smoothing at home.
What I read
I'm reading "Kings of Albion" by Julian Rathbone. It's a story about how a price of Vijayangaran (in South India) travelled to England together with his guides and entourage in the 1460s in search of his long-lost brother, and stumbles right into the beginning of the Wars of the Roses. Some amusing insights into what noblemen from a civilised empire made of the dirty, stinking, filthy countries they found in Northern Europe.
What I learned this week
The Oval Cricket Ground is nowhere near as big in real life than it looks on the telly.
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